Prosecutors restore Michael Cohen's shredded documents
by Kelly Cohen
| June 15, 2018 03:29 PM
About 16 pages of shredded documents belonging to Michael Cohen were reconstructed by federal prosecutors, they said in a court filing Friday that described the effort they're making to recover information about President Trump's former lawyer.
Another 731 pages of of messages, including call logs, from encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal have also been recovered, prosecutors said. They provided the update in a two-page letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday.
The Manhattan judge is overseeing the case involving Cohen, who argues that many of the materials seized by the FBI in April 9 raids fall under attorney-client privilege and should not be allowed to be used by federal prosecutors in the case against him.
Wood set June 15 as the deadline to determine which of those records fall under the privilege, a task that was given to a special master. Nothing has yet been filed on the public docket.
Federal prosecutors also said they are still extracting information from one BlackBerry of Cohen's, and have already returned another to him.
Cohen, 51, has not yet been charged, though he is reportedly under federal investigation for bank fraud and campaign finance violations related to his $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just weeks before the 2016 election. Cohen has claimed she had an affair with the president years ago.Prosecutors restore Michael Cohen's shredded documents
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