BREAKING MSNBC: Trump allies worried investigators seized Cohen audio recordings.

[LuckyCharms]

Apparently Cohen was fond of recording things. Unclear about whether any recordings included Trump. Also, there is a problem if both parties were not aware of the recordings.

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

NOW

[C_U_L8R]

2. Oh sweet jeezus !! There are tapes !!!!

Wow wow wow wow

[forgotmylogin]

3. Oh, lordy... (n/t)

[BigmanPigman]

4. .....

[DumpDrumpf]

5. Its a Godfather/Three Stooges mashup

[MrsCoffee]

6. John Schindler last year: "Now we go nuclear...He will die in jail".

I imagine so will many of Trump's "friends".

Dumbest criminals ever.

[Gothmog]

7. Lordy, there may be tapes!

Link to tweet

[wishstar]

9. Perfectly legal in New York to record conversation without informing other party

Cohen reportedly told people that because of NY law he could record without other party knowing and use phone recordings as leverage.

[djg21]

14. It was improper for NY attorneys until 2001 in many circumstances

Despite the fact that NY is a once-sided consent state for purposes of eavesdropping.

The question has been subject to debate ever since. http://www.newyorklegalethics.com/masking-tapes-an-analysis-of-the-law-of-secret-recording-in-new-york/

[Freethinker65]

10. Surely there are no allies with prior knowledge of Trump's guilt

Give me a fucking break. His allies are now worried because everyone will know that they knowingly supported a (wannabe?) lothario mobster

[mr_lebowski]

11. Stupid Watergate ...

[triron]

12. On the Don Lemon show last night, Carl Bernstein said the Cohen FBI raids

were the equivalent of the Watergate tapes. Now this has literal connnotation.

[triron]

13. kick for visibility

[KTM]

15. Just so you know...

"I know you have a history of neither paying your employees nor fulfilling your agreements, so... this is being recorded."

Ooooops.

[Gothmog]

16. Another ethical violation by Cohen

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

17. This is to be expected given the law school that Cohen attended

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Tatiana]

18. That's why it was a RAID... duh!

As several on MSNBC have speculated, they had to move to prevent Cohen from destroying evidence. Maybe Stormy knew that Cohen did this. Perhaps that's why Avenatti has been on Cohen's case so much... almost taunting him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Watergate, Shakespeare, attorney's attorney, and worst law school in the US

1) Cohen was 7 years old in 1973. Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

2) Shakespearean! How long until it is reported that there are gaps and edits?

3) When your attorney has an attorney, your case does not look good. In Trump's case, Cohen has at least two attorneys: Stephen Ryan and David Schwartz.

4)

his J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1991, a then-autonomous institution that later became the law school of Western Michigan University, and which in December 2017 was ranked the worst law school in the country.

[pnwmom]

20. There is a one-party consent law in Washington, D.C., so legally it's okay

for anyone to have recorded anyone else in the WH -- without their awareness.

I don't know what rules might have bound Cohen as an attorney, though.

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. NY is a single-party consent jurisdiction for recording of conversations (n/t)

[Sancho]

22. Damn...not the Russians...not the TV Shows...but his own lawyer made tapes!

[moondust]

23. Making and keeping recordings

could mean his other files and materials may also be unsecured and intact.