Judge orders the release of Cohen's search warrants requested by Mueller

Beryl Howell, the chief justice of the US District Court in Washington, DC, wrote in her order Tuesday that documents can be unsealed once the government makes the necessary deletions.

A media group – including the New York Times, Politico and the Washington Post – had requested the publication of the court's search warrants, after being mentioned in previously unsealed search warrant documents in the southern district of New York.

Howell noted in his order that federal prosecutors did not oppose the release of warrants, as long as the authorities had the right to make certain deletions beforehand.

The judge said that Cohen, who is in a federal prison in New York, did not react to the potential disclosure of documents "nor did he oppose in any way the loosening requested. "

Other documents relating to the searches of the apartment, hotel room and Cohen's office were made public earlier this year, but largely related to the SDNY's investigation into the former lawyer and repairer Of the president.

These documents showed that Mueller had sought search warrants against Cohen nearly a year before the FBI raids on the properties of Trump 's former lawyer.