#122: Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels and New Legal Precedents
Real Crime Profile
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🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Today Jim and Lisa interview powerhouse defense attorney and television commentator Sara Azari. Sara has some interesting insights into the legal precedents being set in recent current events. We talk about the raid on lawyer Michael Cohen's office and the implications of all kinds of legal issues going on in the current political climate. Laura is away in the U.K. continuing her fight for more stalker awareness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:07.0 | The FBI on Monday raided the offices of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, |
| 0:13.4 | seizing records related to several topics, including payments to pornographic film actress. |
| 0:18.6 | Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral from |
| 0:24.0 | the special counsel, Robert S. Muller, according to Mr. Cohen's lawyer, who called the search, |
| 0:29.8 | quote, completely inappropriate and unnecessary. |
| 0:32.8 | A raid on a lawyer's office is an extraordinary event for a prosecutor, as I was, to even contemplate |
| 0:48.4 | it is just a remarkable act of audacity, particularly when the lawyer is the sitting president's |
| 0:55.1 | lawyer. |
| 0:56.1 | And he has the vault. |
| 0:57.2 | He has the keys to the kingdom. |
| 0:59.3 | He knows all the secrets about Donald Trump. |
| 1:03.0 | And if he were to cooperate, it would be indeed a transformative event. |
| 1:09.6 | So the raid is seismic. |
| 1:12.4 | And remember that when this kind of act is undertaken, there has to be more than just probable cause. |
| 1:18.2 | The FBI and the US Attorney have to convince the Department of Justice that they are going |
| 1:25.2 | to come away with very significant evidence of a crime. |
| 1:29.4 | They have to be convinced a crime has been committed. |
| 1:33.1 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profiles. |
| 1:34.9 | This is Jim Clemente, former of New York City Prosecutor Retired FBI Profiler and Writer |
| 1:38.9 | Producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. |
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