Feds: Michael Cohen, others under scrutiny by grand jury

Source: Washington Examiner | October 25, 2018 | Kelly Cohen

Federal prosecutors said in a Thursday court filing that there is an ongoing grand jury investigation into former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — as well as others.

The disclosure was made in the Southern District of New York, where the media is requesting to obtain the search warrants used by the FBI to raid Cohen’s home and office in April.

Releasing the search warrants used by the FBI to gather information on Cohen would “interfere with this investigation and implicate significant privacy concerns for numerous uncharged third parties who are named” in them,” wrote federal prosecutors.

“The disclosure would almost certainly result in a very public guessing game in which the media and members of the public attempted to guess the identities of the uncharged parties described in the materials — particularly the campaign finance portions,” prosecutors said.

Furthermore, disclosure of the warrants “would jeopardize an ongoing law enforcement investigation in concrete ways.”

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