Feds Investigated Michael Cohen For Alleged Illegal Foreign Lobbying

Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen (L) and his legal team arrive to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on... Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen (L) and his legal team arrive to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 27, 2019. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The FBI investigated whether former Trump attorney Michael Cohen undertook an illegal foreign lobbying campaign, newly unsealed search warrants reveal.

A July 18, 2017 search warrant demands that Google hand over the contents of Cohen’s gmail account from January 1, 2016 onwards.

The government wrote in the warrant – issued at the start of the investigation into Cohen – that it was seeking records as part of an investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, as well as possible bank fraud, money laundering, and false statements charges.

The FBI asked in the warrant for “records of any funds or benefits” offered to Cohen by “any foreign government, foreign officials, foreign entities, foreign persons, or foreign principals,” as well as communications that “reveal efforts by Michael Cohen to conduct activities on behalf of, for the benefit of, or at the direction of” any foreign entity.

Another search warrant to Google – executed on November 20, 2017 – asks for the same range of information and documents, but from a time period starting on June 1, 2015.

Read the search warrants below:

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  1. For all of those worried that the Mueller Report will be a nothingberder, just scroll through the warrant and see page after page after page which is fully redacted…

  2. Witches, Witches as far as the eye can see!

  3. let there be an email saying:

    “At the request of the president, please deposit one beelyun dollars into my personal checking account and I’ll see to it he gets his cut.”

  4. I can state categorically that Cohen did NOTHING without Trump’s demand/approval. This is the man who counted sheets of toilet paper in his office building; is it at all credible that Cohen was a “lone wolf”?

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