Updated at 5:21 p.m.
FBI agents who raided the hotel room and office of President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday were seeking information about whether he tried to keep damaging information about his boss from leaking out during the 2016 election season, according to reports published Wednesday.
That includes all records related to the “Access Hollywood” tape, a clip that showed Trump making vulgar comments about women during what he thought was an off-camera conversation with the show’s host.
Sources with knowledge of the raid did not tell the New York Times how Cohen could be connected to the tape.
Agents also looked for documents related to deals Cohen made with women who engaged in affairs with Trump.
They also searched for information about Trump’s communications with Cohen in regard to the TV tape, according to CNN.
Cohen has admitted he paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement they signed in October 2016. The deal was to keep Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, quiet about an extramarital affair Trump had with her a decade earlier while married to Melania Trump.
Trump’s camp has been under investigation by Robert Mueller’s special counsel for possible collusion or misdoing before the election and during his transition. It’s not clear whether the U.S. attorney general office in Manhattan was assisting federal investigators in the raid or are carrying out a separate one.
The federal investigators are also looking into whether Cohen committed bank fraud, including the accepting of illegal donations, in his unofficial campaign role.
Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning to fume over the raid and said there was no reason for Mueller’s team to dive so deep into his attorney’s personal life.
