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    Feds tapped phones of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, and caught one call with White Hous

    Feds tapped phones of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, and caught one call with White House: NBC News

    Dan Mangan
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    Updated 2 Mins Ago CNBC.com

    Federal authorities wiretapped the phone lines of President Donald Trump's long-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News reported Thursday.

    At least one call between Cohen's phone and the White House was captured by the wiretap, according to the story.

    Cohen is under criminal investigation in New York, where FBI agents in April seized files related to his $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, for which Trump claims to have reimbursed him.

    Federal authorities wiretapped phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, and intercepted at least one call between a Cohen line and the White House, NBC News reported Thursday.

    It is not known when the wiretap on Cohen was authorized, but it was in place in the weeks before the April 9 raid on his New York City home, hotel room and office by FBI agents, according to NBC News.

    Cohen is under criminal investigation by prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for issues that include his business dealings.

    Among the items seized from Cohen last month were files related to a $130,000 payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels has said the money was in exchange for her promise to keep quiet about an affair she says she had with Trump in 2006.

    Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, during an appearance on MSNBC said he knew that Michael Cohen's text messages were also tapped by investigators.

    "It's a fact," Avenatti said.

    It has been previously known that federal prosecutors were monitoring Cohen's email accounts for some time before the April 9 raid.

    On Wednesday night, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for that payment to Daniels.

    Giuliani's statement contradicted previous denials by both Cohen and Trump that the president had not paid Cohen.

    Giuliani is now on Trump's legal team for dealing with an ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. That probe is focused on Russian interference in the presidential election.

    Giuiliani a former U.S. Attorney for the South District of New York.

    The Washington Post said he was "furious" when a reporter informed him of the NBC News story. Giuliani said he had been unaware of any such wiretaps on Cohen.

    "If they picked up the president, they would have had to notify him," said Giuliani.

    He added that if the NBC report is accurate, it would make a "mockery of attorney-client privilege, and would amount to government misconduct.

    Giuliani then said he would inform Trump of the news.

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    So who approved that wiretap? And for what purpose? Based on what probable cause?! For what crime?? That will be interesting. I think DOJ needs to wiretap all the phones, personal and office, of everyone working on the Mueller investigation. That would REALLY be interesting!!
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    Feds surveilled, but didn't record, Michael Cohen's phone calls, sources say

    By Jake Gibson, Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
    2 hours ago

    Rudy Giuliani drops bombshell on Cohen investigation

    Giuliani tells Sean Hannity that Michael Cohen was reimbursed for his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, but insists President Trump didn't know the details; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports.

    Fox News has learned that federal investigators kept a register of phone calls made by President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, but those calls were not recorded, contrary to an earlier report by NBC News.

    Sources with knowledge of the proceedings told Fox News that investigators used a pen register, or dialed number recorder (DNR), on at least one of Cohen's phones. A pen register records all numbers dialed from a given phone number, as well as the length of each call.

    The National Security Agency (NSA) gathers similar information, which is sometimes referred to as metadata.

    Further, in an April 13 court filing, prosecutors revealed they had, "already obtained search warrants ... covert until this point ... on multiple different email accounts maintained by Cohen."

    "We already have considerable amounts of information about Mr. Cohen’s activities," Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay said during the hearing in reference to warrants obtained in the course of the investigation.

    Earlier Thursday, NBC reported that Cohen's conversations had been recorded in the weeks leading up to FBI raids on his home, office and hotel room last month. The report also claimed that investigators recorded at least one call made to the White House from a number associated with Cohen.

    NBC later added an editor's note to the online version of its report saying that "three senior U.S. officials" had disputed the original wiretap report.

    At Thursday’s briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders referred questions about the report to Trump’s outside counsel. “I can’t verify the validity of that report,” she said.

    The FBI and U.S. attorney’s office had no comment when reached by Fox News.

    A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, where Cohen used to work, said in a statement: “Mr. Cohen has not worked for the company for more than a year. In any event, we have no knowledge of any nonpublic investigative actions with respect to Mr. Cohen.”

    The erroneous NBC report added to widespread speculation about what exactly the feds were able to seize in their April raid. Cohen’s lawyers and Trump’s team have been battling in court over access to those materials.

    NBC also reported that New York city's onetime mayor, Rudy Giuliani, who recently joined Trump’s legal team, learned that Trump had made a post-raid call to Cohen. Giuliani reportedly told Trump not to call again out of concern that the conversation could be recorded.

    Cohen is being investigated in a grand jury probe of his personal and business dealings, which include a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

    The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York says that Cohen has been under investigation for months, and that it was behind the raid.

    Giuliani, meanwhile, revealed on Fox News' "Hannity" on Wednesday night that Trump reimbursed Cohen for that payment – despite Trump’s past comments denying knowledge of it – but said the president thought it was just for unspecified "expenses" at the time.

    Giuliani also has blasted the separate probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections by a special counsel, calling Thursday for it to be shut down.

    Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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