A court appointed watchdog in the case of President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, released an initial report Monday which found that relatively few documents in an initial tranche seized from Cohen met the standard of being legally privileged.
In a report to the court, Special Master Barbara Jones found that eight boxes of papers contained “639 total items consisting of 12,543 pages.” Of these, Jones found “14 items are Privileged and/or Partially Privileged…and 3 items are not privileged.”
Jones also reviewed the contents of two phones and one iPad, she wrote. “Out of291,770 total items,” Jones found “148 items are Privileged and/or Partially Privileged and that 7 items are Highly Personal.”
The review represents only a small fraction of the documents, including computer hard drives, which Jones is expected to review.
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