that matter still deserved to be pursued as a potential criminal issue. and so they passed it on to the federal prosecutor in the jurisdiction where michael cohen lives and works and presumably where he banks. so this wasn t mueller s team. this was a referral from mueller s team to a local prosecutor. the federal prosecutor in the locality where cohen is. we think we know of only one other instance in which the mueller investigation has led to something like this. that time it was about paul manafort. it related to some unusual loans that extended to paul manafort right after he left the trump campaign, over $15 million in loans to paul manafort from a small regional bank in chicago that seemed to have no business making those kind of loans. that bank in chicago was set up.
thanks to a referral from robert mueller s team, a referral from mueller s team to the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan, in the southern district of new york. so it appears that mueller s prosecutors may have come across something in the course of their investigation, they may either have concluded themselves or more likely been told that that something was outside the scope of their investigation in the special counsel s office, but that matter still deserved to be pursued as a potential criminal issue. and so they passed it on to the federal prosecutor in the jurisdiction where michael cohen lives and works and presumably where he banks. so this wasn t mueller s team. this was a referral from mueller s team to a local prosecutor. the federal prosecutor in the locality where cohen is. we think we know of only one other instance in which the mueller investigation has led to something like this. that time it was about paul manafort. it related to some unusual loans