Deputy AG Rosenstein Personally Signed Off On FBI Raid Of Trump Lawyer
The FBI raid of Michael Cohen’s office and home was signed off on by Rod Rosenstein.
The decision to raid the office and home of President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen went all the way up to the top of the Justice Department.
According to a new report by The New York Times, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein personally approved the FBI raid Monday of Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel.
In the raid, FBI agents seized emails, tax documents and records, including some documents related to Cohen’s payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
” Mr. Rosenstein’s personal involvement in the decision signals that the evidence seen by law enforcement officials was significant enough to persuade the Justice Department’s second-in-command that such an aggressive move was necessary,” The New York Times report notes.
The report goes on the note, “The involvement of Mr. Rosenstein and top prosecutors in New York in the raid of Mr. Cohen’s office makes it harder for Mr. Trump to argue that his legal problems are the result of a witch hunt led by Mr. Mueller. In addition to Mr. Rosenstein, all of the top law enforcement officials involved in the raid are Republicans: Mr. Mueller, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. Director, and Geoffrey Berman, the interim United States attorney in New York.”
Read the full New York Times report here.
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