The FBI, with the U.S. Attorney's Manhattan public corruption bureau, execute a raid on Cohen's apartment, office, and hotel room, seizing hard-copy files, electronic records and emails, and electronic devices like cell phones and laptops, as part of an investigation into the hush-money payments.
They mailed, rather than hand-carried, Mr. Chernick's bank statements, for fear that customs officials would seize hard copies.
The Manhattan district attorney's office raided Lehr's offices 14 months ago, seizing records, hard drives and a "black book" that they said provided a detailed accounting of the scheme.
In 1995, police and FBI agents raided Avant!'s Fremont, Calif., headquarters, seizing computers, hard drives and files.
Investigators from Soca seized the hard drives from the hacker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, during a raid in 2009.
The shop owner said French antiterrorist investigators had seized the hard drives from the cybercafe's eight computers two days after Mr. Reid's flight.
The regulator carried out dawn raids on agencies' offices, interviewed staff and seized computer hard drives and files last year in operations that stunned the industry.
On July 18th, Rusbridger received a call from Oliver Robbins, the U.K.'s deputy national-security adviser, alerting him that agents would be coming to the Guardian's offices to seize the hard drives containing the Snowden files.
And while Lavabit's encryption and privacy measures make brute force unattractive, the F.B.I. could have gotten a warrant to raid Lavabit and seize its hard drives or servers.
