FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Geoffrey S. Berman became the top federal prosecutor in New York, some skeptics worried he would be President Donald Trump’s puppet. A year later, the Trump camp is suggesting he is part of the crowd that is out to ‘get’ the president. Berman is a Republican who contributed to the president’s election campaign, worked for the same law firm as Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani and was put in his job by the Trump administration. But now, as U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, he is investigating numerous Trump allies and has won over some skeptics…Berman, 59, was appointed by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in January 2018, months after Bharara was fired after refusing to resign along with dozens of other federal prosecutors appointed by President Barack Obama. Three months later, FBI agents raided the offices of Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, an act the president decried as a politically motivated witch hunt. For reasons never explained publicly, the Justice Department decided Berman should recuse himself from supervising that investigation, putting it in the hands of his hand-picked top deputy, Robert Khuzami.”
–Associated Press, “NY Prosecutor’s Colleagues Say He’s No Trump Puppet,” The New York Times online, February 26, 2019