Trump wanted a special master. So did a businessman. The judge treated them differently
Four months before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted Donald Trump’s request to have an independent special master review documents that the FBI seized from his Palm Beach estate, she rejected a similar bid from an indicted healthcare executive seeking the same treatment.
Newly unsealed documents show that, unlike in the former president’s case, Cannon found that a Justice Department “filter” team tasked with separating privileged attorney-client records from other evidence taken from South Florida businessman John Paul Gosney Jr.’s office would be able to do its job — no need for a neutral special master, she ruled in May.
How did Cannon’s decisions in the high-profile and low-profile cases turn out so differently?
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