By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, SHARON LaFRANIERE
and MAGGIE HABERMANA | APRIL 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President
Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about
payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and
information related to the publisher of The National Enquirer’s role in
silencing one of the women, several people briefed on the investigation
said.
The search warrant carried out by the public corruption unit of the
Manhattan federal attorney’s office seeks information about Karen
McDougal, a former Playboy model who claims she carried on a nearly
yearlong affair with Mr. Trump shortly after the birth of his son in
2006. Ms. McDougal was paid $150,000 by American Media Inc., The
Enquirer’s parent company, whose chief executive is a friend of Mr. Trump’s.
Agents were also searching the office and hotel room of the lawyer,
Michael D. Cohen, for information related to Stephanie Clifford, better
known as Stormy Daniels, who says she also had sex with Mr. Trump while
he was married. Mr. Cohen has acknowledged that he paid Ms. Clifford
$130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement to secure her silence just
days before the 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, on Monday called the raids
“inappropriate and unnecessary.” In an email on Tuesday, he referred
back to that statement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-russia-mueller-rosenstein.html
Stephen Ryan, who also got his law degree from a store-front "college of
law" in a strip mall, doesn't get to say when lawfully obtained search
warrants are appropriate and necessary.
Some wag yesterday had a great comment about Trump's "one night stand"
lasting decades. LOL!