Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election

[Rogue Valley]

Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election

Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Putin

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.

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

 

[Parrish]

There's a storm, a comin', folks.

 

[Rexedgar]

 

[cuban smokes]

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

every ****ing GOPer, conservative, right wing Christian evangelical, adulterer, NRAer, nutter, coal miner, pedophile, etc., will tell every ****ing one here this is a ****ing "nothing burger" .......

 

[Winston]

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'.

 

[Parrish]

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'.

And most likely some crazy stuff coming out of the WH. Will they be waggin' the dog?

 

[Threegoofs]

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

Wow!

Big if true.

This is potentially the smoking gun.

http://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/daniels-lawyer-says-trump-attorney-cohen-got-money-from-oligarch.html


Can’t wait til Hannity gets on so the local Trumptards will be instructed on how to address this.

 

[Mr Person]

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.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

There's a storm, a comin', folks.

A huge s-storm.

I’ve read about Michael Cohen. That dude is seriously dirty. Lots of mob connections and tons of Russian connections. I find it hard to imagine that Trump isn’t just as dirty.

If Cohen rolls Trump is going to prison.


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[chuckiechan]

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

And Hillary “may have been born a man.

 

[veritas1]

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.

 

[Parrish]

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.

 

[veritas1]

Veritas is in erritas. Google Shep Smith and educate yourself.

I've been through this on another thread where I posted the NRC letter from 2015 stating this fact. I'll take their word for it.

 

[Tanngrisnir]

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.

You're welcome.

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/debunking-the-uranium-one-scandal

 

[veritas1]

You're welcome.

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/debunking-the-uranium-one-scandal

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.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

CNN is repotting this. Russian oligarch paid Cohen.

Trump is done.


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[KevinKohler]

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.

They didn't need to, you opened the door for them.

 

[beefheart]

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

drip....drip...drip...

 

[Tanngrisnir]

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.

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.

 

[Fearandloathing]

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

Mr. Michael Avenatti is emerging as quite the player.

I suspect this is a precisely timed event amid a strategy to let the Chinese fire drill that is the White House shoot itself in the feet. We have a week's worth of play of Julie Baby saying Trump knew blah, blah, blah and while the laughingly named Trump "Brain Trust" is contradicting itself followed by a bomb shell.

I believe the gutter dwelling Trump has met his match in dirty fighting and I expect a whole lot more **** slinging in other words we are not yet in the 'eye of the "Stormy" and Mr. Avenatti has more compost at his disposal.

 

[Common Sense 1]

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."

 

[calamity]

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

Follow the hush money.


Trump is really stupid.

 

[veritas1]

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.

Here you go. Now, go argue with the NRC instead of me.

As a condition of our approval, we required the licensee to notify the NRC before ARMZ appoints, hires, or designates personnel to perform NRC-licensed activities. The ARMZ licensees represent approximately 20 percent of the currently licensed uranium in-situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1516/ML15168A230.pdf

 

[calamity]

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."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/poli...an-oligarch-payments-michael-cohen/index.html

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.

 

[poweRob]

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.