Barr's tension with Manhattan US Attorney's Office began over Michael Cohen's case, The New York Times reports

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• A new New York Times report claims that Attorney General William Barr tried to undermine the US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York.
• According to The Times, Barr questioned prosecutors over Cohen's conviction. 
• Cohen was President Donald Trump's former lawyer and personal "fixer." 
• Cohen was convicted and sentenced for tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign-finance violations, and making false statements to Congress in 2018 before Barr was even sworn in as Attorney General. 
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The tension between the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and Attorney General William Barr allegedly started due to the conviction of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, and personal "fixer," The New York Times reported.

According to The Times, not long after becoming attorney general, Barr questioned prosecutors on why they charged Cohen with violating campaign finance laws. 

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