(CNN) The orbit of former advisers and associates of President Donald Trump who have been indicted or found guilty grew Thursday when Steve Bannon, his former senior adviser and chief strategist, was arrested and indicted. The crimes they have been accused of are different and stem from a constellation of alleged criminal conspiracies.
χ Mr. Trump: “Looking more & more like the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon (surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC.” Today: The FISA warrants were not illegal, per se. But they did not meet the law’s standards.
Mr. Steele accused Mr. Trump of being a spy for Russia and a financier of Russian hacking into Democratic computers. Mr. Mueller found no such evidence or a Trump-Russian conspiracy.
Today: The FISA warrants were not illegal, per se. But they did not meet the law’s standards. The FISA court chief judge subsequently has nullified two warrants and banned certain FBI agents from submitting FISA applications. Sign up for Daily Newsletters
It means that a federal magistrate judge looked at the information investigators had already gathered and agreed that Mr. Cohen probably possessed additional evidence of a federal crime.
Most of the time, if someone possesses information that is relevant to getting at the truth about a suspected crime, the rules require that person to disclose such evidence, and prosecutors can use those facts in court.
No. In certain cases, lawyer-client materials do not receive special legal protections.
When the government seizes materials and sorts through them itself, it carries the risk that officials may see confidential files about unrelated cases or material that is covered by a valid claim of lawyer-client privilege. A defense lawyer could later use that to try to get a case dismissed.
Trump was impeached in the House in 2019 on articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his own efforts to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelinsky to announce an investigation into the Bidens.
Giuliani’s lawyer Robert Costello said the search warrants were related to allegations that Giuliani had failed to register as a foreign agent, the Associated Press reported.
Jones wrote that she has assigned “additional documents for review” to Giuliani’s lawyers, and that she expects to be told by them by Friday what additional items they claim are privileged.
Jones in her filing Tuesday said that prosecutors have provided seized material from one device seized from Toensing.
(CNN) The orbit of former advisers and associates of President Donald Trump who have been indicted or found guilty grew Thursday when Steve Bannon, his former senior adviser and chief strategist, was arrested and indicted.
Stone was convicted last year of seven charges -- including lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional committee proceeding -- as part of Mueller's Russia investigation. Among the things he misled Congress about were his communications with Trump campaign officials -- communications that prosecutors said Stone hid out of his desire to protect Trump.
Trump's onetime national security adviser, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his talks with the then-Russian ambassador about approaches that would undermine Obama administration policy before Trump took office.
Trump commuted his sentence this summer days, before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia.
In an interview with The New York Times in February 2019, Trump said he hadn't spoken with his former campaign manager "in a year and a half." He did, however, offer praise for Bannon as a top advocate during the President's impeachment who caught his attention.
The case has become a political lightning rod, with Trump and Flynn both saying he's been treated unfairly by the judge and the prosecutors who cut his plea deal. Trump has not ruled out a pardon for Flynn.
Today: This is undoubtedly true. Mr. Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse found 17 instances in which the FBI provided inaccurate information to judges or withheld favorable material about Mr. Page.
It turns out that, based on the subsequent release of government documents, Mr. Trump was right on a number of his a ssertions, according to an analysis by The Washington Times.
Today: The FISA warrants were not illegal, per se. But they did not meet the law’s standards. The FISA court chief judge subsequently has nullified two warrants and banned certain FBI agents from submitting FISA applications.
Today: All FISA warrants are classified, but it is true the FBI fought to declassify any of its Russia probe applications.