Feds piece together Cohen's shredded pages

[MicroBrew]

The Feds have pieced together pages that Cohen sent through his paper shredder. News is reporting that the Feds also obtained more than 700 pages worth of encrypted messages.

Here's my thought: what a fricking noob for not being able to permanently destroy sensitive material on paper. Did this guy, with all his money, just go buy some consumer grade imported paper shredder at Office Depot or some other big box store? Really does sound like it. Ofcourse I am glad he failed at hiding the shredded material but I would think a guy in his position would have bought an industrial duty shredder and or incinerated the stuff. Maybee when the Feds raided the officers , his underlings only had time to send the pages through their office shredder??

http://www.businessinsider.com/mich...ther-paper-shredder-encrypted-messages-2018-6

 

[JbModest]

Good.

 

[IGIT]

The Feds have pieced together pages that Cohen sent through his paper shredder. News is reporting that the Feds also obtained more than 700 pages worth of encrypted messages.

Here's my thought: what a fricking noob for not being able to permanently destroy sensitive material on paper. Did this guy, with all his money, just go buy some consumer grade imported paper shredder at Office Depot or some other big box store? Really does sound like it. Ofcourse I am glad he failed at hiding the shredded material but I would think a guy in his position would have bought an industrial duty shredder and or incinerated the stuff. Maybee when the Feds raided the officers , his underlings only had time to send the pages through their office shredder??

http://www.businessinsider.com/mich...ther-paper-shredder-encrypted-messages-2018-6

hio MicroBrew,

its kind of understandable. Mr. Cohen is an attorney, afterall. his doings in the legal world may seem sort of strange, but he's just a lawyer. he's not some kind of career criminal.

- IGIT

 

[palerider500]

This is bad, terrible, frightening news.

 

[HockeyBjj]

I always felt a paper shredder was dumb. All it does is say THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT and requires tedious time putting back together. If you want something erased, burn it

 

[M3t4tr0n]

hio MicroBrew,

its kind of understandable. Mr. Cohen is an attorney, afterall. his doings in the legal world may seem sort of strange, but he's just a lawyer. he's not some kind of career criminal.

- IGIT

IGIT is here!

 

[Deleted member 391673]

The Feds have pieced together pages that Cohen sent through his paper shredder. News is reporting that the Feds also obtained more than 700 pages worth of encrypted messages.

Here's my thought: what a fricking noob for not being able to permanently destroy sensitive material on paper. Did this guy, with all his money, just go buy some consumer grade imported paper shredder at Office Depot or some other big box store? Really does sound like it. Ofcourse I am glad he failed at hiding the shredded material but I would think a guy in his position would have bought an industrial duty shredder and or incinerated the stuff. Maybee when the Feds raided the officers , his underlings only had time to send the pages through their office shredder??

http://www.businessinsider.com/mich...ther-paper-shredder-encrypted-messages-2018-6

maybe they got new technology that can reassemble even burnt documents

 

[Fawlty]

Cohen's so stupid he probably bought a shredder with a webcam.

 

[BrotherClaudio]

maybe they got new technology that can reassemble even burnt documents

Impossible

But computers remember most everything, even when damaged.

 

[Cojopi Extomino]

maybe they got new technology that can reassemble even burnt documents

Using the Infinity Gauntlet in reverse!

It's kind felt like a new christmas was announced the day they raided his office. You just know really awesome stuff is coming. Glad to see they got the stuff he even thought he destroyed too.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

Does this give him grounds to sue the paper shredder manufacture or shredding company?

 

[Fawlty]

Does this give him grounds to sue the paper shredder manufacture or shredding company?

Yeah, the company clearly failed to make good on their Criminal Concealment Guarantee.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

Yeah, the company clearly failed to make good on their Criminal Concealment Guarantee.

well, I worked for an insurance company, and the company that comes to shred our documents has a similar guarantee.

 

[Cojopi Extomino]

Does this give him grounds to sue the paper shredder manufacture or shredding company?

They could just use someone really good at puzzles as an expert witness to prove anything is possible!

 

[Execute]

To be fair, this doesn't say that they found anything illegal from these shredded documents, although I believe it's likely? It's pretty normal for any office to have shredded a lot of paper. This feels like nothing unless we learn about what was shredded.

 

[JosephDredd]

hio MicroBrew,

its kind of understandable. Mr. Cohen is an attorney, afterall. his doings in the legal world may seem sort of strange, but he's just a lawyer. he's not some kind of career criminal.

- IGIT

“From what I’ve gathered, Michael Cohen was so cheap he didn’t invest in a cross-cut shredder, which would have made it impossible for investigators at Quantico, forensic specialists, to refabricate or reconstitute these documents,” Avenatti said. “Evidently he had a different type of shredder. They’re in the process of going through it, from what we heard in court today.”

 

[Cojopi Extomino]

To be fair, this doesn't say that they found anything illegal from these shredded documents, although I believe it's likely? It's pretty normal for any office to have shredded a lot of paper. This feels like nothing unless we learn about what was shredded.

Them taking the time to do it indicates they had a feeling it'd be worth their efforts for some reason.

 

[44nutman]

I always felt a paper shredder was dumb. All it does is say THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT and requires tedious time putting back together. If you want something erased, burn it

I have to legally keep my files for 5 years. When 5 years are up I burn them in a barrel in my back yard. I don’t trust shredders, lot of sensitive financial data in my files. If it’s burned it’s gone.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Cohen's so stupid he probably bought a shredder with a webcam.

 

[Andy Capp]

Let's suppose for a second I don't give Trump enough credit and he is smarter than I think. Why hire such an obviously dumb and awful lawyer?