Federal prosecutors in New York told a judge Thursday the FBI seized as many as 16 cell phones when agents raided the home, office, and Manhattan hotel room of President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, earlier this month.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay disclosed the finding to Federal District Judge Kimba Wood, the New York Post reports, adding prosecutors were expected to turn over the seized materials to Cohen's lawyers by May 11.
Agents raided Cohen's home and office in Manhattan on April 9, along with a hotel room where he was temporarily staying.
They were armed with search warrants obtained based on information provided in part by Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators.
President Trump has attacked the raid as a "disgrace" and ripped it on Twitter.
Trump told Fox News earlier Thursday that Cohen handled a fraction of his legal work over the years and the raid had nothing to do with him.
According to the Post, McKay explained the government had turned over the contents of four phones and one iPad to Cohen's team.
He said the "remainder of the phones seized" would be turned over on Friday and told the judge that prosecutors had "about a dozen" left.
Other devices taken in the raid included two BlackBerrys, suggesting "Cohen has been holding on to his electronics for many, many years," the Post reports.
In addition, Wood appointed former District Court Judge Barbara Jones as a special master to review the documents seized in the FBI raid.
Jones, 70, now in private practice, will determine which files can be turned over to prosecutors in the Cohen case.
Those involving attorney-client privilege would be kept from investigators.
Lawyers for Trump and Cohen have objected to the U.S. attorney's plan to have the documents reviewed by a "taint team" of prosecutors not affiliated with the case.
Jones was appointed to the federal bench in the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton in 1995 and served until the end of 2012.
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