Michael Cohen Lawyer Completed Review of Files Seized by FBI
- Team found 12,000 privileged files among 4 million reviewed
- Former Trump lawyer faces probe of finances, business dealings
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Lawyers for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, say they’ve completed a review of 4 million files seized by the FBI during an April raid and found that 12,061 are privileged and shouldn’t be viewed by government lawyers.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Monday, Cohen’s lawyers said they’re done. That means federal prosecutors may soon have access to almost all the materials they seized in an April 9 raid on Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, including eight boxes of paper files; data from 13 phones and other mobile devices; laptop computers; and flash drives and external hard drives.