The former president's maneuver is fueling a crisis in the Manhattan DA's hush-money case.
invasive revenge schemeThe U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is now flooding the much smaller Manhattan DA’s Office with tons of paperwork, which then gets turned over to the former president’s defense team.
Michael Cohen arrives for the second day of testimony against Trump in his civil fraud trial at New York State Court on October 25, 2023.
Damian Williams, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, authorized the release of Cohen’s data in a signed Feb. 23 letter that stopped well short of giving the former president everything he wanted.For example, Trump’s lawyers asked the feds to turn over large swaths of Cohen’s personal tax filings, in part to explore whether the former lawyer told the IRS that the $420,000 he got for coordinating the hush money was taxable income or a non-taxable reimbursement.
Similarly, Williams employed a dump-it-all policy when it came to personal messages the FBI seized from Cohen’s two iPhones. When Trump’s team sought communications that they argued would probe Cohen’s “fraudulent schemes” as well as his “potential bias and motive,” Williams reasoned that “it would be unreasonably burdensome for this office to review the seized materials to identify potentially relevant material.
In a letter to the judge on Friday, Blanche and fellow defense lawyer Susan Necheles pointed to SDNY’s willingness to turn over documents to bolster their arguments that the DA failed to meet its obligations to do it sooner. But more interestingly, the book seemed to position itself as a counter to what was then the most popular exposé of the chaos and dysfunction of the Trump White House:—and the way the president would stop housekeepers from touching his toothbrush out of fear that he’d be poisoned.
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