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Michael Cohen said another personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, would give Donald Trump up in a heartbeat after federal agents raided the former New York City mayor s home and office.
Cohen offered his assessment on CNN on Thursday one day after FBI agents seized the 76-year-old Giuliani s electronic devices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into his dealings in Ukraine, according to Giuliani s lawyer, who called the search legal thuggery.
“What I told [Giuliani] was that Donald Trump doesn t care about anyone or anything. That he will be the next one to be thrown under the bus, and that s exactly what s going to happen,” Cohen told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota.
He also accused federal authorities of operating under a “corrupt double standard.”
Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, called the situation “absurd” and “disgusting.”
“Our Justice Department should be independent of politics,” he said in Manhattan. ”If this could happen to the former president’s lawyer, this could happen to any American.”
Reports of an investigation into Mr. Giuliani broke last year after two of his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested on suspicion of trying to funnel foreign money to a pro-Trump super PAC.
Prosecutors have also accused the pair of using the funds to influence relations between the U.S. and Ukraine. As part of that probe, prosecutors began examining Mr. Giuliani’s ties to the two men.
Giuliani’s attorney
Robert J. Costello called the searches “legal thuggery,” saying that his client had been willing to answer questions about all of his non-privileged communications Trump.
Attorney-client privilege may be a major sticking point in how authorities handle whatever evidence may be on Giuliani’s newly-seized electronics. In the case of Trump’s former attorney
Michael Cohen, U.S. District Judge
Kimba Wood appointed former judge
Barbara Jones as a special master, tasked with determining which of the seized Cohen documents were subject to the attorney-client privilege.
CNN legal analyst
Jennifer Rodgers, who spent more than a decade as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), told Law&Crime that the crime-fraud exception will likely help the DOJ overcome some of those privilege protections as well.
Legal Experts Say DOJ Likely Had ‘Significant Evidence’ to Execute Search Warrant on Giuliani: He’s ‘in Deep, Deep S t’ Jerry Lambe
Federal authorities looking into the foreign dealings of
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday escalated their investigation into the former New York City mayor, executing a search warrant on his Manhattan apartment and seizing several of his electronic devices. Legal experts and former Justice Department attorneys were quick to weigh in on the latest development, with many indicating that
Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney has a problem on his hands.
According to the
New York Times report, the investigation stems from Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine that placed him at the center of systematic efforts to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine