Some people have same question as Oma. What is 'Special Master'
When FBI raided attorney Rudy Giuliani's office, the court ordered a 'Special Master' (retired judge) to review all seized materials, to prevent disclosure to FBI of materials protected by client-attorney privilege
When FBI raided attorney Rudy Giuliani's office, the court ordered a 'Special Master' (retired judge) to review all seized materials, to prevent disclosure to FBI of materials protected by client-attorney privilege
https://twitter.com/inekedebruin1/status/1455627279984365572
This Special Master (woman named Barbara Jones) is same who did this same work in case when FBI raided Trump attorney Michael Cohen's office in 2018
The purpose is to protect genuine client-attorney communications, even if that client is a criminal, FBI may not see such papers
The purpose is to protect genuine client-attorney communications, even if that client is a criminal, FBI may not see such papers
The big exception to client-attorney privilege is, if the attorney (Rudy Giuliani) himself has PARTICIPATED in the crime. So if Rudy helped Trump commit a crime, then those files are NOT protected by his privilege. There are also some other exceptions to the protection.
Giuliani's office was raided at end of April 2021. The Special Master was assigned in June. She has been working ever since. We now have an update, that apparently over 2,000 seized files were handed to FBI from 7 devices, Giuliani objected only to 3 files, she will review those
There were 16 devices in total seized from Giuliani (also more from another attorney) and there were other files taken from Giuliani's office and home. We do not know the full status of what all has been processed. But certainly 9 more devices by Giuliani remain to be processed
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