Special Counsel Robert Mueller began looking into President Donald Trump’s one-time personal attorney Michael Cohen soon after beginning his investigation and prosecutors already had gathered considerable information about alleged campaign finance violations by the time FBI agents raided Cohen properties, newly unsealed documents show.
The affidavits used to justify the search warrants to seize Cohen’s emails, phones and other evidence during the April 2018 raids were released Tuesday by a court in New York. Many portions of the exhibits are still heavily redacted, signaling areas that may still be under investigation by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere.
