President Trump
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BrownArmy
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Context my man, it's all about context.
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COCAINE MITCH AND THE CHINA PEOPLE!
"Consulting fees" LOL
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen
"Financial records reviewed by The New York Times show that Mr. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime fixer, used the shell company, Essential Consultants L.L.C., for an array of business activities that went far beyond what was publicly known. Transactions adding up to at least $4.4 million flowed through Essential Consultants starting shortly before Mr. Trump was elected president and continuing to this January, the records show.
Among the previously unreported transactions were payments last year of about $500,000 from Columbus Nova, an investment firm in New York whose biggest client is a company controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch. A lawyer for Columbus Nova, in a statement on Tuesday, described the money as a consulting fee that had nothing to do with Mr. Vekselberg.
Other transactions described in the financial records include hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. Cohen received from Fortune 500 companies with business before the Trump administration, as well as smaller amounts he paid for luxury expenses like a Mercedes-Benz and private club dues.
Among the other payments to Mr. Cohen’s company described in the financial records were four for $99,980 each between October and January by Novartis Investments S.A.R.L., a subsidiary of Novartis, the multinational pharmaceutical giant based in Switzerland. Novartis — whose chief executive was among 15 business leaders invited to dinner with Mr. Trump at the World Economic Forum in January — spent more than $10 million on lobbying in Washington last year and frequently seeks approvals from federal drug regulators. Novartis said in a statement that its agreement with Essential Consultants had expired.
In addition, Korea Aerospace Industries paid Mr. Cohen’s company $150,000 last November, according to the records. The company, an aircraft manufacturer, has teamed with the American defense contractor Lockheed Martin in competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to provide trainer jets for the United States Air Force that is expected to be awarded this year. A representative for Korea Aerospace declined to comment.
AT&T made four payments totaling $200,000 between October 2017 and January 2018, according to the documents. AT&T, whose proposed merger with Time Warner is pending before the Justice Department, issued a statement on Tuesday evening confirming that it made payments to Mr. Cohen’s firm.
“Essential Consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration,” the statement said. “They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017.”
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen
"Financial records reviewed by The New York Times show that Mr. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime fixer, used the shell company, Essential Consultants L.L.C., for an array of business activities that went far beyond what was publicly known. Transactions adding up to at least $4.4 million flowed through Essential Consultants starting shortly before Mr. Trump was elected president and continuing to this January, the records show.
Among the previously unreported transactions were payments last year of about $500,000 from Columbus Nova, an investment firm in New York whose biggest client is a company controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch. A lawyer for Columbus Nova, in a statement on Tuesday, described the money as a consulting fee that had nothing to do with Mr. Vekselberg.
Other transactions described in the financial records include hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. Cohen received from Fortune 500 companies with business before the Trump administration, as well as smaller amounts he paid for luxury expenses like a Mercedes-Benz and private club dues.
Among the other payments to Mr. Cohen’s company described in the financial records were four for $99,980 each between October and January by Novartis Investments S.A.R.L., a subsidiary of Novartis, the multinational pharmaceutical giant based in Switzerland. Novartis — whose chief executive was among 15 business leaders invited to dinner with Mr. Trump at the World Economic Forum in January — spent more than $10 million on lobbying in Washington last year and frequently seeks approvals from federal drug regulators. Novartis said in a statement that its agreement with Essential Consultants had expired.
In addition, Korea Aerospace Industries paid Mr. Cohen’s company $150,000 last November, according to the records. The company, an aircraft manufacturer, has teamed with the American defense contractor Lockheed Martin in competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to provide trainer jets for the United States Air Force that is expected to be awarded this year. A representative for Korea Aerospace declined to comment.
AT&T made four payments totaling $200,000 between October 2017 and January 2018, according to the documents. AT&T, whose proposed merger with Time Warner is pending before the Justice Department, issued a statement on Tuesday evening confirming that it made payments to Mr. Cohen’s firm.
“Essential Consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration,” the statement said. “They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017.”
El Correcto
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Tldr
Trump fixer Michael Cohen allegedly took $500,000 from a Russian oligarch over the course of eight payments made between January and August 2017.
Cohen was engaged in “suspicious financial transactions” totaling over $4.4 million between October 2016 and January 2018. This number includes AT&T, which made four payments of $50,000 each between October 2017 and January of this year to Cohen’s LLC, as well as pharmaceutical giant Novartis, which allegedly paid Essential Consultants just under $400,000 over the same period. In addition, Avenatti also said that Korea Aerospace Industries paid Essential $150,000 in a one-time transaction last November.
I think this is a bit more than a breach of the emoluments clause.
No wonder they raided Cohen’s office.
Firm linked to Russian 'paid Trump lawyer'
Looks like the “the no collusion” claim just took another kick in the nads.
Looks like the “the no collusion” claim just took another kick in the nads.
And Cohen will 100% flip. He’s been cut off by his co-conspirators and has been signaling/rationalizing that he’ll flip by saying things like, “I’d die for my wife and kids. And this is all ruining their lives”.
It’s no longer about being willing to “take a bullet” for Trump. He knows what’s been seized and has real life, really bad potential consequences to deal with now. It’d be terrifying for anyone.
It’s strange that Wikileaks could know all the Clinton ties to Russia and completely whiff on the Trump connections.
On second thought, maybe that’s not exactly what’s happening. Maybe Wikileaks knows all about the Trump/Russia connections.
newfie
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DriveInDriveOut
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No one cares about idiots who go to North Korea.
DriveInDriveOut
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The expected April surplus, meanwhile, isn’t keeping the U.S. from running a wider budget deficit for the fiscal year to date. For the first seven months of the budget year, the shortfall totals $382 billion, or $37 billion more than the same period a year ago, CBO estimates. The CBO recently estimated the full-year deficit would be $804 billion, and that trillion-dollar deficits would return in 2020.
newfie
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amazing when you see just how far off the mark they have been.
DriveInDriveOut
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Americans Think Politicians Are Crooks, So They Seek 'Honest Crooks.' They Should Stop Being Surprised When Those Honest Crooks Are Still Crooks.
This leaves Americans with two possible paths on corruption: keep electing your corrupt guy, or start election non-corrupt politicians. Cynicism is of no help here – there are indeed some politicians who aren’t looking to trade influence for cash. It’s intellectually lazy and morally rotten to simply roll over when it comes to corruption. But that seems to be the path Americans are interested in taking now: get the honest crook, since we’re going to get a crook no matter what.
Now who's being naive Kay
Sounds like I’d better look into how much my own Congressional representatives are receiving from Russia!
Let’s not pretend the Trump/Cohen level of corruption is normal among politicians just to defend Trump.
Obama did worse.
