Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists.
No collusion. Witch hunt. Fake news. Crooked Hillary!
The Daily Beast can confirm that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company controlled by Putin-aligned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
The allegations were initially made Tuesday by Michael Avenatti, porn actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, and confirmed by a source familiar with the matter.
“How the fuck did Avenatti find out?” the source asked The Daily Beast.
According to a dossier published by Avenatti on Tuesday evening, “Vekselberg and his cousin Mr. Andrew Intrater routed eight payments to Mr. Cohen through a company named Columbus Nova LLC beginning in January 2017 and continuing until at least August 2017.”
The funds, Avenatti suggested, may have been used to reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 hush payment made to Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
Intrater was also a donor to the Republican National Committee, where Cohen served as a deputy finance chairman. In June 2017, Intrater donated $35,000 to a joint fundraising committee for the RNC and Trump’s reelection campaign. He also gave a quarter-million dollars to Trump’s inaugural committee. (Previously, Intrater gave only to Democrats like Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Ted Kennedy.)
Also:
AT&T allegedly paid $200,000 to Cohen as it was facing threat of Trump administration antitrust suit pic.twitter.com/h6Mj8hemup
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) May 8, 2018
I won’t know what to make of this until I get a massively implausible explanation from Cohen I will choose to take at face value.