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“The mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Donald Trump, September 2016.

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According to The Journal, Cohen once told someone at a former friend's wedding that he belonged to the Russian mob. The former friend, Gregory Ehrlich, said he does not believe Cohen has any such ties.

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Manhattan federal prosecutors seized as many as 16 cell phones when the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room of President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Prosecutor Thomas McKay made the ​astonishing revelation wh​ile telling a judge ​Thursday ​that the feds are on track to hand over seized​ ​materials to Cohen’s lawyers by May 11.

In explaining the process, McKay said the feds have already turned over the contents of four phones and one iPad.

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relic said:

he probably gets a new one a couple times a year and instead of destroying the current phone when he gets a new one, he hangs on to it.

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musiclover420 said:

relic said:

he probably gets a new one a couple times a year and instead of destroying the current phone when he gets a new one, he hangs on to it.

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That could explain a handful, I have at least 2-3 old phones laying around. But 16?... That seems obscene. By that point you could just start giving them away unless you need them for some reason or are paranoid about the contents.

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krypto2000 said:

musiclover420 said:

relic said:

he probably gets a new one a couple times a year and instead of destroying the current phone when he gets a new one, he hangs on to it.

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That could explain a handful, I have at least 2-3 old phones laying around. But 16?... That seems obscene. By that point you could just start giving them away unless you need them for some reason or are paranoid about the contents.

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But you're not a wealthy criminal either, I could see with lots of stolen money buying a new phone every 6 months or so.

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That seems like all the more reason to destroy the older phones, to perhaps prevent the FBI from seizing 16 of them

But yeah, maybe he just wasn't worried. Or is incredibly stupid, possibly both

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A federal judge on Friday granted Michael Cohen’s request for a delay in a lawsuit brought against him by porn star Stormy Daniels, saying it appeared likely Cohen will be indicted in a related criminal investigation.

Judge S. James Otero’s order for a 90-day stay comes two days after Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California. Cohen’s declaration cited the investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who are examining his role in quashing embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Otero said Friday that the issues in the civil dispute with Daniels overlap with the criminal probe into Cohen. The lawyer’s Manhattan office and home were raided on April 9.

“This is no simple criminal investigation; it is an investigation into the personal attorney of a sitting President regarding documents that might be subject to the attorney client privilege,” Otero wrote. “Whether or not an indictment is forthcoming, and the Court thinks it likely based on these facts alone, these unique circumstances counsel in favor of stay.”

Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, said he planned to file an appeal early next week.

“While we certainly respect Judge Otero’s 90-day stay order based on Mr. Cohen’s pleading of the 5th, we do not agree with it,” he wrote on Twitter.

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musiclover420 said:

relic said:

he probably gets a new one a couple times a year and instead of destroying the current phone when he gets a new one, he hangs on to it.

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That could explain a handful, I have at least 2-3 old phones laying around. But 16?... That seems obscene. By that point you could just start giving them away unless you need them for some reason or are paranoid about the contents.

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Mercurious said:

The silence is deafening.

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The prosecutors in both cases are gonna jump all over that.

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I think they already did jump on some of his statements, but I haven't been following too closely. The judge suspended the stormy case for 90 days though because he thinks Cohen is going to be indicted soon

musiclover420 said:

Mercurious said:

The silence is deafening.

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I am still waiting to hear back from Qman about how Trump is somehow not a sexual assaulter even though he has a history of harassing women dating back to the 80's.

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The Ecstatic said:

So you think Hillary is innocent too?

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krypto2000 said:

Really, I didn't know Hillary got arrested and convicted of domestically abusing Bill, that's very interesting.

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Mercurious said:

musiclover420 said:

relic said:

he probably gets a new one a couple times a year and instead of destroying the current phone when he gets a new one, he hangs on to it.

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That could explain a handful, I have at least 2-3 old phones laying around. But 16?... That seems obscene. By that point you could just start giving them away unless you need them for some reason or are paranoid about the contents.

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It is obscene, for sure. No one needs 16 phones unless they're doing some really questionable shit. And how stupid is he for not destroying them? Better for the FBI, I guess. And Trump shot himself in the foot by telling everyone on Fox that Cohen was mainly a businessman and did barely any lawyering for him. The prosecutors in both cases are gonna jump all over that. BTW notice how all his little ass kissers have gone quiet on this whole debacle? The silence is deafening.

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