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5/8/18
Stormy Daniels’s attorney Michael Avenatti said Tuesday that President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000 in the months after the 2016 election from a company run by a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Avenatti said that the funding may have been used to reimburse the $130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels to stay quiet about her alleged affair with Trump. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed last week that Trump had reimbursed Cohen $130,000, which was given to Daniels just weeks before the 2016 election. Cohen had earlier claimed that the non-disclosure payment came from his own funds, and Trump had told he was unaware it had been been made. Giuliani, who recently joined Trump’s personal legal team, has said that Trump only recently learned of the payment to Daniels, and he has not ruled out the possibility that Cohen made payments to other women on Trump's behalf. Avenatti released a report with preliminary findings about the bank account he says Cohen used to make the payment to Daniels.
That account was made in the name of the company Cohen created to transfer the money to Daniels, Essential Consultants, LLC. The report states that Cohen’s account received roughly $500,000 in payments from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Those payments were made from January to August 2017. “Mr. Cohen inexplicably accepted these payments while he was the personal attorney to the President and holding himself out at times as employed by the Trump Organization (with few other clients),” the report reads. “This was occurring at the same time significant questions were being raised relating to (a) the involvement of Russia and Vladimir Putin in the 2016 Presidential Election and (b) the extent of the relationship between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump." The report released by Avenatti also claims that the bank account received payments totally nearly $400,000 from global pharmaceutical company Novartis, and noted that Trump reportedly had a dinner meeting in Switzerland with the Novartis CEO shortly afterward the transactions were made.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
Completely consistent with the track record of dishonesty coming out of the WH. Also completely consistent with the meltdown Trump had at the thought of the FBI perusing Cohen's records.
The clown bus keeps on rollin'.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
There's a storm, a comin', folks.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
I guarantee you that someone will throw out the ****ing idiotic "Uranium One" crap. They will then ignore that Russia does not retain control over the uranium, that the 20% figure is a stupid lie, that in fact we did something very similar under Megatons to Megawatts for 20ish years.
Uranium One controls 20% of our production, not 20% of our reserves. That is a fact as stated by the NRC. One has to explain why having a Russian owned company controlling 20% of our production is a good thing.
Veritas is in erritas. Google Shep Smith and educate yourself.
Uranium One controls 20% of our production, not 20% of our reserves. That is a fact as stated by the NRC. One has to explain why having a Russian owned company controlling 20% of our production is a good thing.
I guarantee you that someone will throw out the ****ing idiotic "Uranium One" crap. They will then ignore that Russia does not retain control over the uranium, that the 20% figure is a stupid lie, that in fact we did something very similar under Megatons to Megawatts for 20ish years.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
I already debunked you on this in another thread. You must have forgotten. I was speaking about what the 20% represents, not all the other stuff you'd like to bring up.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin
The Trump/Cohen Essential Solutions LLC/First Republic Bank account received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the election, and $400,000 from Novartis shortly after Trump dined with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company. AT&T Inc. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. also transferred funds into the First Republic Bank account.
Smells like Kompromat and Pay-to-Play.
Related: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Links Michael Cohen to Russian Oligarch
No, you didn't, nor can you demonstrate that you did, but I understand that you need to be dishonest about it to save face.
Michael Avenatti provided no documentation for his claims, which he posted on Twitter.
From the story:
In a statement, an attorney for Columbus Nova said the management firm is owned and controlled by Americans, not Vekselberg. "After the inauguration, the firm hired Michael Cohen as a business consultant regarding potential sources of capital and potential investments in real estate and other ventures," the statement said.
"Reports today that Viktor Vekselberg used Columbus Nova as a conduit for payments to Michael Cohen are false. The claim that Viktor Vekselberg was involved or provided any funding for Columbus Nova's engagement of Michael Cohen is patently untrue.
"Neither Viktor Vekselberg nor anyone else other than Columbus Nova's owners, were involved in the decision to hire Cohen or provided funding for his engagement."
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, after the election, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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