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communicating for several years. that all cull miinated in the april of 2018 raid of michael cohen s hotel room, office and safety deposit box. ultimately michael cohen was charged with campaign finance violations. he pleaded guilty to those as well as lying to a bank and tax returns. we knew that the investigation encompassed potential foreign lobbying violations. and michael cohen pleaded guilty last august with the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan. he is expected to go to prison for three years in may. pretty big document you and your team unpacking it. thank you for bringing us the headlines. joining me now to talk about this, cnn political analyst, jennifer rogers, former federal prosecutor and cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. i know you guys haven t had too long of a period of time to dig through this document. what stands out to you so far? one of the interesting things is the timeline of how quickly
raids of michael cohen s homes and his office. this comes because of a request for the public to see them from the media including cnn. let s get back to our lead reporter on all of this. just to show people, this is the first 150 pages and this isn t all of it. i understand you haven t read all of it. as you pore through, what s the most important thing that stands out to you? what s interesting and we are learning is that the special counsel s office had already gotten three of four warrants to search michael cohen s e-mails. the first application was in july of 2017, about two months after the special counsel s office was formed and began investigating. they started looking for e-mails, had warrants. they wanted cohen s e-mails going back to summer of 2015. they were investigating russia s interference in the election and cohen is a long-time trump personal attorney. he s been involved with the trump tower developments in
how this investigation evolved. what we learned from the filing is that the special counsel s office had initially asked a judge for and received search warrants for michael cohen s cell phones. they received three search warrants for e-mails and an icloud account and they were looking back to as far as the summer of 2015 was when they started looking at some of michael cohen s dealings. the special counsel office is tasked with looking at the election and russian interference. they started going back way far into michael cohen s history with the trump organization and with the president which was right around the time these deals were reached for the hush money payments to be made to the women who accused that they had afi firffairs with the presiden years ago. we are learning the special counsel s office looked at this and referred the materials to the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan.
michael cohen s banking records became public. we learned he had all these consulting contracts. that was something that the special counsel s office had also investigated to see what the connections were. there was nothing ever charged related to the relationships or anything illegal about the relationships. but it was part of the effort by michael cohen once he did not go to washington with trump when he became president that he started to look for these consulting contracts with various companies. essentially selling his access to the president and his knowledge of the president. pop poppy? thank you. we ll let you get back to it. paul, let s talk about the significance of the fact we have learned from this that mueller s team of prosecutors was requesting multiple search warrants on michael cohen before the case was referred to the sdny. mueller had obviously developed leads suggesting a
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