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NYDA probing Trump payment to Stormy Daniels despite Barr's efforts to make it go away

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New York State Prosecutors Blocking Anyone From Taking a Single Document or Investigating Step

Berman: Main justice barred SDNY federal prosecutors from looking at a single document or taking a single investigative step of any kind. Even though that same prosecutor's office had named another person with whom Michael Cohen committed this felony. And so no, they never charged that other person. They never charged Trump, even though they concluded and told the court that he had committed the crime with Cohen. The investigation of anybody else involved in those crimes got kiboshd and nobody else was ever charged. Berman: Federal prosecutors get blown up by Trump's DOJ, by main justice under Trump. For even just bringing a case against Michael Cohen, they get ordered to not investigate anyone else for these crimes.

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