…#EvanCorcoran, had refused to answer investigators’ questions about his interactions w/ #Trump, invoking atty-client privilege….
US prosecutors argued that there are exceptions to the privilege, incl’g when there is evidence that a client used the atty’s legal services in furtherance of a #crime. In secret court filings & a hearing held behind closed doors last wk…prosecutors sought to show Chief US District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington that there were grounds for a #CrimeFraudException