Washington • Months before the FBI raided Michael Cohen’s office and hotel room, investigators were examining the flow of foreign money into his bank accounts and looking into whether the funds might be connected to a plan to lift sanctions on Russia, according to court filings unsealed Wednesday.
The five search warrant applications, made in the early weeks and months of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in 2017, were made public in response to requests from The Associated Press and other media organizations.
Ultimately, Cohen was not charged by Mueller or by prosecutors in New York with anything related to Russian collusion or illegal influence peddling, but the documents shed further light on how he capitalized financially on his closeness to the president immediately following the 2016 election.