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Drain the swamp, my eye. Corporations and Russian oligarchs funnelled "donations" (read bribes) through Essential Consultants, LLC whose sole employee was Trump's personal lawyer and self-described "fixer", Cohen. This is the ultimate pay-to-play. Essential Consultants, LLC received $4.4 Million shortly before Trump's election and into January of this year.
AT&T - $200,000 - Late 2017 to Early 2018
AT&T Statement
Quote:
Essential Consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017
Novartis - $399,920 - Late 2017 to Early 2018
Novartis Statement
Quote:
In February 2017, Novartis entered into a one-year agreement with Essential Consultants shortly after the election of President Trump focused on U.S. healthcare policy matters. The terms were consistent with the market. The agreement expired in February 2018
Korea Aerospace Industries, LLC - $150,000 - November 2017
KAI Statement
Quote:
[Korea Aerospace Industries] signed a contract with Essential last year for “legal consulting concerning accounting standards on production costs and upon the expiration of the contract [KAI] made the payment in November.
Columbus Nova, LLC (Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's U.S. subsidiary) - $500,000 - January to August 2017
Columbus Nova Statement
Quote:
[Columbus Nova] retained Cohen as a consultant regarding potential sources of capital and potential investments in real estate and other ventures.
If this is true, it would mean that Cohen committed some crimes, but how does this prove Trump's guilt?
No crime connected to Trump, not yet but you have to wonder why all this money is passing through Trumps personal lawyer. What kind of leverage did he have, I'm sure he had some insight but it should make anyone wonder why these companies go through him.
From what I can see in this article, I can see no proof for certain that this was about Stormy Daniels, though I can see possible proof that Cohen was involved in some kind of large scale monetary fraud.
The LLC is what ties it to Stormy Daniels
The money going in/out of the account MIGHT be tied to her payoff
That relationship has to be investigated
And I imagine the SDNY is doing forensic audit of that account and any other Cohen used
And I will say again
Michael Cohen was one of three RNC assistant national campaign chair for campaign finance
Broidy (the guy with the second NDA using the same pseudonyms as Trump and Daniels) was another ass't chair...
I think Cohen's activities for the RNC will eventually be called into question and investigated
The RNC won't like that because there are sure to be illegal activities disclosed
AT&T claims it wasn't lobbying so what were the payments for, research? It appears that Cohen had more than one client.
The ATT statement released yesterday said that there was no 'legal or lobbying efforts' carried out for those payments--they were just for gathering information about how the new administration would "operate"
Even though Cohen didn't work in WH or go to DC at all...
He was their "source of information"===doesn't sound too viable to me...
Since ATT was not listed as client at the SDNY hearing, there is no attorney-client priviledge attached to any of those payments...
They are not protected at all from being investigated...
Two guys shooting the breeze--
So professional, don't you think...
The ATT compliance office should investigate this but it won't happen...
Remember at this time ATT had a case before the DoJ and the issue of net neutrality was a jump ball
IF there was any oversight of illegal activities, this would be investigated--but there isn't, so it won't...
But third-world country activity...
But the IRS is likely salivating at getting into Cohen''s books...
Did you say the same thing about Clinton's pay off of almost a million dollars to one of his sexual conquest.
And why is she still appearing on CNN and MSNBC if they aren't trying to get something from Trump..... What are they after? We all know what CNN and MSNBC is after...too end the Trump presidency.
What crime was committed or is this just another Trump story of the day considering the Russian collusion story has flopped?
There was no pay-off to a Clinton sexual conquest.
Of course the AT&T threads would be merged with the Stormy Daniels thread, despite having only one commonality (involving the same shell company).
Threads like "Pizzagate is a real thing!" are alive and well, but threads about payoffs from huge companies who ultimately benefited from big regulatory changes to the President's personal attorney's shell company need to be merged with tangentially related ones?
What's crazy is that this theory actually sounds plausible.
IN the crazy world of Trumpmania, it does ---doesn't it?
Plus a legal marriage allowed Melania to gain citizenship sooner
Cloaked her cloudy immigration status (like working as a model/call girl when she was only on a travel visa)
It's stunning how this Admin with the "best and brightest" is getting Trumped by Stormy Daniels. I admit. Trump has been getting some wins in the press with NK but it's overshadowed by his incompetent gang of nitwits and wanna be mobsters. Why is middle America supporting these east coast city crooks????
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