FBI probing Michael Cohen’s ‘personal business dealings’

NEW YORK » Federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday that the criminal probe that led them to raid the offices of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is focused on the attorney’s “personal business dealings” and has been going on for months.

In the filing with a court in New York, prosecutors blacked out a section describing what laws they believe Cohen has broken, but they said the “crimes being investigated involve acts of concealment” and allegeded fraud.

They also made clear that investigators have been gathering extensive evidence for some time as part of an ongoing grand jury investigation. Agents, they wrote, already had searched multiple email accounts maintained by Cohen after securing an earlier search warrant.

None of those emails, they added, was exchanged with Trump.