An “extremely rare” search warrant, requiring a considerable burden of proof, was issued for the offices and records of Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer and attorney. “It’s a tactic generally used against organized crime, against very serious, very serious criminals and lawyers who are operating outside of the protections of the law.” — Alan Dershowitz. Cohen appears to be under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, presumably involving the Stormy Daniels affaire. It was apparently referred by Robert Mueller to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
That suggests the matter is not directly related to the Russia investigation. The risk for Trump is if Cohen caves for a deal and tells what he knows about Trump’s business and personal dealings over the years. It could potentially expose Trump’s Emperor-has-no-clothes finances never mind the multiple Non-Disclosure Agreements over the years for various dalliances. (See Daily Beast below – The Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s life.) Firing Mueller or Rod Rosenstein or Sessions would not affect any of this.
Cohen, 25 August 1966, described as having a strip-mall law degree, sees himself as a fixer in the mould of television’s thuggish Ray Donovan. He did look to be on a downhill slide of panic this month with tr Neptune square his Sun/Saturn, which returns on and off till late 2019. With a ‘shocking’ electric jolt coming from mid May with tr Uranus square his Mars in Leo bringing high levels of insecurity, recurring in the autumn and again in early 2019. He’s in meltdown panic in September/October and in deep depression in 2019/2020.
The Trump/Cohen relationship chart is seriously unsettled now with tr Uranus square the composite Sun Mercury, opposition Neptune and trine Pluto. They are pretty chained-together but Trump won’t foot his legal bills and Cohen may find loyalty is a one-way street. Mid May looks jolted and jangled between them. And if anything there’s more degrees of separation in 2019.
Trump naturally has gone off on a scatter-gun tirade like a cornered animal against Sessions, Rosenstein et al and against the rule of law. All escalating towards his Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Mars. And indeed towards tr Uranus squaring the Aquarius Sun of his Term chart from mid May which will rattle it up considerably. Tr Saturn is now into the Term legal 9th house, which is weighted down by an afflicted Pluto on the point of a T square to an overly confident, opportunistic Uranus opposition Jupiter. Tr Saturn won’t get to the conjunction with Pluto till 2019, but that may well be the cruncher, if it doesn’t come sooner.
(See also post March 27 2018 – Michael Cohen)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-are-treating-michael-cohen-like-a-mob-lawyer-trump-allies-say