Big bribery scheme: Michael Cohen received $4.4M in the year after the election.
From ATT, Novartis, Vekselberg, an oligarch close to Putin, a SKorean aircraft company and who knows who else. The leak came from Treasury, not Mueller or FBI. Mueller has known for 6 months and hasn't leaked it.
As usual, we're just finding out things Mueller has known for months. Novartis, who now admit paying $1.2M to Cohen, say they were contacted by Mueller in Nov 2017 about the payments. They also claim they paid him for his expertise on “healthcare policy.” [ LOL ]
Russian-linked Columbus Nova, who paid Cohen 4 payments of $99,980, also spent 2016 and 2017 registering a number of websites aimed at young white supremacists, or members of the so-called “alt-right.”
Facts Do Matter? @WilDonnelly
As NBC reported Wednesday morning, Columbus Nova also spent 2016 and 2017 registering a number of websites aimed at young white supremacists, or members of the so-called “alt-right.”
Among the URLs registered were domains like Alt-Right.co, Altrights.co, Alternate-rt.com, and Alt-rite.com. Some of the domains, like Alt-Right.com and Altrights.co, were registered in late August 2016 — just a few months before the American election — while others, like Alt-rite.com, were created in August 2017.
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Novartis pays Cohen 400k in carefully sturctured transactions & gets a meeting w Trump. Cohen gets all the money and Trump does the work of taking the meeting. Knowing what you know about the president how likely is that ?
Renato MariottiVerified account @renato_mariotti
The @nytimes reports that over $4.4 million was paid to the shell company created by Michael Cohen that paid off Stormy Daniels. Why would anyone pay that kind of money to Michael Cohen? It wasn’t to perform legal work. mobile.nytimes.com…
This fairly massive story received a grand total of 1 mention on Fox News tonight. Bret Baier covered Michael Avenatti's tweet on the payment around 7pm. Not a *single* mention in primetime
Aidan McLaughlin added,
Eric UmanskyVerified account @ericuman
It's hard to count the number of scandals in *just this one story*: 1. A Russian oligarch made secret payments to prez's lawyer 2. A Swiss pharma giant did too… |
