U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood has set Wednesday night as the deadline for Michael Cohen's attorneys – along with those working for President Trump and the Trump Organization – to set aside what they believe should be covered by attorney-client privilege or marked highly personal out of the four million items FBI agents seized in the raid on Cohen's hotel room, home, and office on April 9th.
Prosecutors then get to start their review.
Wood did carve out an exception for 22,000 documents after the Trump Organization said it needed more time to study those materials. The judge set a new deadline of July 5 for those documents.
Her order came a day after lawyers for Cohen said they’d finished their analysis after designating 12,000 files as being subject to privilege out of over 4 million electronic and paper files reviewed since April 9 raids on Cohen’s home and office in Manhattan.
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The investigation could reveal plenty about the inner workings of Trump’s longtime fixer and image protector. In part, people familiar with the probe have said investigators conducted raids on Cohen to get bank records, records on Cohen’s dealings in the taxi industry, his communications with the Trump presidential campaign and information on payments made in 2016 to two women who say they had affairs with Trump: former Playboy model Karen McDougal and the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
The materials seized in the raid include information from 13 mobile devices and iPads, 20 other devices including laptops, external hard drives and flash drives, and hard copy documents, according to the filing by Cohen’s lawyers on Monday.
Judge: Prosecutors about to get most Cohen raid materials (AP)
Michael Cohen seeks to keep about 12,000 seized documents from prosecutors (Reuters)