Barbara Jones address a 2018 news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
MANHATTAN (CN) — The same former judge who oversaw the review of files from the now-disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen has been charged with looking through the devices seized from Rudy Giuliani’s home and office, as part of a criminal investigation into the erstwhile Trump attorney’s dealings in Ukraine.
Cellphones and computers were among the materials seized in the April 28 raid, when federal investigators executed a search warrant on Giuliani’s Manhattan properties. With the former New York City mayor asserting that any investigation of his property would trample attorney-client privilege, however, U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken on Wednesday appointed a retired colleague from the Southern District of New York, Barbara S. Jones, as special master.