Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen's emails were sought in mid-2017 -filings

Federal authorities sought warrants to investigate email accounts of Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, in July 2017, nine months before Cohen's office and hotel room were raided, according to documents made public on Tuesday.

Emails were sought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office, which is probing Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as the FBI, according to the documents.

The documents, totaling several hundred pages, were released after U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan ordered federal prosecutors to make redacted versions public, in response to requests by various by news media organizations. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis)