After the FBI seized materials from Michael Cohen's home, office, and hotel room in a raid last April, attorneys for Cohen, President Trump, and the Trump Organization claimed attorney-client privilege should apply to nearly 5,000 items, and the government should not be able to see them.
A court-appointed "special master" finished her review of those items this week and found fewer than half actually qualify for exclusion.
CNBC:
Barbara Jones, the "special master" in Cohen's case, in her filing said that lawyers for Cohen, Trump and the Trump Organization had claimed 4,808 items as exempt from disclosure to prosecutors, saying the items were subject to attorney-client privilege or were highly personal.
But Jones said she agreed that just 2,260 of those should be kept from prosecutors: 1,972 of those items are privileged, 285 are highly personal, and three are partially privileged.
Jones did not agree that the remaining items should be kept from prosecutors.
She also indicated in her filing that prosecutors have been given 2,558 items that were designated as "not privileged" and/or "not highly personal."
Special master completes review of evidence seized from ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen (CNBC)