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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
Mueller didn't go looking for anything. This raid isn't under the mandate of the Mueller investigation, it was conducted by the US Attorney for the southern district of NY, who was hand-picked by Trump himself.
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And it all came as a YUGE surprise to Mueller.
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The raid on Cohen’s office was done by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and was based at least partly on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, according to Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan.
“The decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary,” Ryan said in a statement. “It resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients.”
The raid creates a new legal headache for Trump even as he and his attorneys weigh whether to agree to an interview with Mueller’s team, which in addition to investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign is also examining whether the president’s actions constitute obstruction of justice.
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To push the allegations of violation of campaign finance law, Mueller had to either get Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to expand his original mandate, or to hand it off to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York.
http://time.com/5233843/donald-trump...michael-cohen/
