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Trump: Raid on lawyer abuses attorney-client privilege
that he might seek the removal of the
Justice Department’s special counsel.
The raid was overseen by the U.S.
Attorney’s office in Manhattan and
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal was based in part on a referral from
agents have raided the office of Pres- Mueller, said Cohen’s lawyer, Ste-
ident Donald Trump’s personal attor- phen Ryan.
ney Michael Cohen, seizing records
“The decision by the U.S. Attor-
on topics that include a $130,000 ney’s Office in New York to con-
payment made to porn actress Stormy duct their investigation using search
warrants is completely inap-
Daniels, who says she had
propriate and unnecessary,”
sex with Trump.
The raid prompted a new
Ryan said in a statement. “It
blast Tuesday from the pres-
resulted in the unnecessary
ident, who tweeted that
seizure of protected attor-
ney client communications
“Attorney-client privilege is
between a lawyer and his
dead!”
A furious Trump, who in
clients.”
Michael
the last month has escalated
The raid creates a new
Cohen
his attacks on Robert Muel-
legal headache for Trump as
ler’s Russia investigation, said Mon- he and his attorneys weigh whether to
day from the White House that it was agree to an interview with Mueller’s
a “disgrace” that the FBI “broke into” team, which in addition to investigat-
his lawyer’s office. He called Muel- ing potential ties between Russia and
ler’s investigation “an attack on our the Trump campaign is also examin-
country,” prompting new speculation ing whether the president’s actions
By ERIC TUCKER
and CHAD DAY
Associated Press
constitute obstruction of justice.
And the law enforcement action
will almost certainly amplify the
public scrutiny on the payment to
Daniels, who says she had sex with
Trump in 2006. The payment was
made just days before the 2016 presi-
dential election. Trump told reporters
last week that he did not know about
it.
Search warrants are a fairly stan-
dard, though aggressive, law enforce-
ment tool and are often sought in
cases where authorities are concerned
someone may hide or withhold evi-
dence. To obtain one, agents must
convince a judge they have prob-
able cause of criminal activity and
they believe they’ll find evidence of
wrongdoing in a search. A warrant
requires high-level approval within
the Justice Department, and agency
guidelines impose additional hurdles
when the search target is an attorney.
Authorities working with Muel-
ler chose a similar tactic last summer
when they raided the home of for-
mer Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort, who was subsequently
indicted.
In this case, Mueller opted to refer
the matter to federal prosecutors in
Manhattan. Besides Cohen’s office,
agents also searched a hotel room
where he’s been staying while his
home is under renovation.
Under Justice Department regula-
tions, Mueller must consult with Dep-
uty Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
when his investigators uncover new
evidence that may fall outside his orig-
inal mandate. Rosenstein then will
determine whether to allow Mueller
to proceed or to assign the matter to
another U.S. attorney or another part
of the Justice Department.
A spokesman for Mueller’s office
did not immediately return a call seek-
ing comment. White House spokes-
woman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and
the U.S. attorney’s office also had no
comment. Monday’s raid was first
Gearhart: City puts individual preparedness at forefront
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thought to myself, ‘Someone has to
worry about this.’ There’s something
I can do to help them be aware of
what they need to do.”
Reaching out to people like
McCullough and her neighbors
through town halls is part of Gear-
hart’s growing effort to bolster
what is considered to be the beach
town’s No. 1 resource in a tsunami:
residents.
With less than 1,000 full-time
residents, limited staffing and very
little land out of the inundation zone,
the city’s geography and demogra-
phy has brought focusing on individ-
ual preparedness to the forefront as
the first line of defense for a major
disaster.
“Like most municipalities, we
are underfunded and understaffed to
take on the great burden of prepar-
ing our community. So we really do
need the citizens to take control of
preparedness for themselves,” said
City Councilor Dan Jesse, an emer-
gency preparedness advocate.
Gearhart has plenty to do on its
own.
In 2019, the city is hoping vot-
ers support a bond to move an aging
fire station out of the inundation
zone. Caches of medical supplies
have been stashed in a few private
residences around town. As of this
month, the city secured a $15,000
grant from the state Department of
Land Conservation and Develop-
ment to be used to evaluate tsunami
hazards as well as give guidance on
how to craft land use measures to
reduce the city’s risk.
But many of these projects are
just in the beginning stages, making
individual preparedness even more
critical.
“If it happened today, we would
have to rely on our neighbors,” Jesse
said.
Challenges
One of the biggest challenges
Gearhart faces is unfortunate
geography.
A study done in 2013 by the
Department of Geology and Min-
eral Industries revealed the town has
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no ground high enough to guarantee
safety in the largest of tsunamis. The
Neacoxie River, which runs along
the west side of U.S. Highway 101,
will almost certainly flood, making
it impossible for residents to evacu-
ate to the east.
“If you go to many other cities,
they have ground everyone knows is
high enough to evacuate to, and we
don’t have that,” Jesse said. “So for
us it’s about trying to figure out our
best approach.”
These factors lead to a confus-
ing message that is hard to com-
municate: When a tsunami hits, run
toward the ocean and head north,
where the dunes reach the highest
elevations in town between 50 and
70 feet. When common wisdom tells
people to run for the hills, the job to
educate people about how to evac-
uate becomes even more important.
“It’s definitely counterintuitive,”
said City Councilor Paulina Cock-
rum, who volunteers with the Com-
munity Emergency Response Team.
But engaging the town in emer-
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gency preparedness has been an
uphill battle. Almost 60 percent of
homes in Gearhart are unoccupied
— second homes with owners who
may or may not be involved with
community efforts. The fact the
town’s population trends older can
make selling preparedness a chal-
lenge, as well.
“We have a population that’s on
the older side,” Jesse said. “If you’re
50 or older, the chance of the event
happening in your lifetime is pretty
small. But if you are a 20-year-old
or 30-year-old, the chance of this
happening in your lifetime is much
greater.”
Appealing a thousand ways
But there is reason to be hopeful.
As Cockrum and Jesse spoke about
the difficulty of getting people inter-
ested in emergency preparedness,
every seat filled up on the fire station
floor — a turnout noticeably higher
than in previous years.
While a full house at a town hall
is a good start, Cockrum said one of
the troubles CERT faces is not hav-
ing a clear sense of how prepared
residents are after the town hall
clears out.
“I don’t think we have a good
feel for the cultural aspects (of pre-
paredness). We have not done the
work to find out how prepared
all the residents are. What is their
knowledge?” she said. “That’s part
of what we’re trying to discover
with this outreach.”
One way Cockrum hopes to do
this is by establishing CERT rep-
resentatives in each neighbor-
hood to lead preparedness efforts
in less-than-enthusiastic places like
McCullough’s.
More than anything, prepared-
ness is an exercise in persistence,
CERT member Pat Wollen said.
“There’s a million reasons not
to do something. I’m too young to
plan. I’m too old to plan. You have
to chip away at the reluctance,”
Wollen said. “You have to appeal to
them in a thousand different ways to
make preparing worthwhile.”
Prineville, Boardman, Bend, Warren-
ton, Coburg and Sandy had one win-
ner apiece.
The last winning tickets were
sold at a Plaid Pantry at North Going
in Portland and at the Sandy Liquor
Store. Those winners split the $9 mil-
lion grand prize.
Northeast Portland resident Tarver
Hannant, an amputee profiled months
earlier by Willamette Week for a story
on the high cost of health care, was
one of those two winners.
He opted for a one-time cash pay-
ment and received about $1.5 million
of the $4.5 million after taxes were
subtracted.
That was the third time in 2017
a Plaid Pantry store in the Portland
metro area has sold a Lottery ticket
worth $1 million or more, accord-
ing to a news release at the time by
the Oregon Lottery. The news release
stated that a Plaid Pantry in Clacka-
mas sold a winning $1 million Raf-
fle ticket, and in May, a Portland store
near Oregon Health & Science Uni-
versity Hospital from the Beaver-
ton-based convenience store chain
sold a $1 million Powerball ticket.
Megabucks drawings are held
every Monday, Wednesday and Sat-
urday at 7:29 p.m. The Oregon Lot-
tery draws six numbers from a set of
48. Players get two sets of numbers
for each $1 they play. Winners have
one year to claim their prizes.
Megabucks is one of several
games the Oregon Lottery has offered
since it started in 1985. The lottery
has paid out $28 billion in prizes since
then. It also is the state’s second larg-
est source of revenue after income
taxes and has contributed more than
$9 billion toward public education,
economic development, state parks
and watershed projects.
The Capital Bureau is a collabo-
ration between EO Media Group and
Pamplin Media Group.
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reported by The New York Times.
Ryan did not elaborate on the doc-
uments taken from Cohen’s office but
said he has cooperated with investi-
gators, including meeting last fall
with lawmakers looking into Russian
interference in the 2016 election.
Cohen has more recently attracted
attention for his acknowledgment that
he paid Daniels $130,000 out of his
own pocket shortly before the 2016
presidential election. Cohen has said
neither the Trump Organization nor
the Trump campaign was a party to
the transaction with Daniels and he
was not reimbursed for the payment.
Several former officials at the Fed-
eral Election Commission have said
the payment appears to be a violation
of campaign finance laws, and mul-
tiple Washington-based groups have
filed complaints with the FEC, urging
it to investigate.
There have been few signs that
Mueller was interested in investigat-
ing the payment, though.
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