JUST IN: FBI raids office of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen

The FBI raided the office of President Trump’s longtime
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday, the New York Times
reports.

Agents seized record related to several topics, among them
records of Cohen’s 2016 payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a
pornographic film actress to who says she had an affair with Trump,
according to the Times.

According to the report, federal prosecutors in Manhattan
obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of
New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the
privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his
clients,” Stephen Ryan, Cohen’s lawyer, said in a statement to the
Times. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New
York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special
Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

This story is developing.

The FBI raided the office of President Trump’s longtime
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday, the New York Times
reports.

Agents seized record related to several topics, among them
records of Cohen’s 2016 payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a
pornographic film actress to who says she had an affair with Trump,
according to the Times.

According to the report, federal prosecutors in Manhattan
obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of
New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the
privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his
clients,” Stephen Ryan, Cohen’s lawyer, said in a statement to the
Times. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New
York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special
Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

This story is developing.