The feds have already gotten the green light to review nearly 300,000 items seized in a raid on President Trump’s personal lawyer and are on track to get their hands on at least a million more items by Wednesday, according to a new court filing.
Barbara Jones, the “special master” appointed to review documents seized in the criminal probe of Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen, said she turned over the 292,006 seized “items” to the feds on May 23.
Jones also flagged more than 1 million “items” from three phones the feds seized from Cohen that she said were deemed not “privileged or highly personal” by Cohen.
Those items could could be released to the feds on May 30, Jones said in her Manhattan federal court filing.
Jones was appointed “special master” in charge of reviewing the seized documents for attorney-client privilege after Cohen complained that feds grabbed privileged material in their FBI raid on his hotel room, office and residence — including his private communications with the president.
Jones also submitted her first bill tied to the job of combing through Cohen’s records and said she expects to get paid $47,390 for the first six days of work — a cost that will likely be shared by the president, who is a party to the case.
Jones, who is charging the parties $700 an hour, will
, according to the bill filed with the court Tuesday.
The feds will cough up half the total, or $23,695. The rest is expected to be split between Cohen, Trump and Trump’s real estate company, who have intervened in the matter.
Meanwhile, Cohen’s lawyer continued to push Manhattan federal judge Kimba Wood to ban the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels from the document-review case.
Their latest complaint, filed late Tuesday, involves concerns that a federal judge in California ordered a law firm linked to Daniels’ attorney to pay $10 million to a lawyer who claimed that the firm owed him millions — and then misstated profits to escape payment.
Woods is holding a hearing in the matter on Wednesday.
