Avenatti's 7 pages on Russian payments to Cohen. Not a smoking gun, smoking machine gun.

[grantcart]

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summary.pdf?dl=0

Chief among these suspicious financial transactions are approximately $500,000 in payments received from Mr. Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian Oligarch with an estimated net worth of nearly $13 Billion. Mr. Vekselberg and his cousin Mr. Andrew Intrater routed eight payments to Mr. Cohen through a company named Columbus Nova LLC (“Columbus”) beginning in January 2017 and continuing until at least August 2017.

Deminks posting confirmation that the details of the payments to AT & T have been confirmed by AT & T

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210592118

[grantcart]

1. Here is another excerpt pointing to a payment of a bribe from Big Pharma

Also included in these suspicious financial transactions are four payments in late 2017 and early 2018 totaling $399,920 made by global pharmaceutical giant Novartis directly to Essential in four separate transactions of $99,980 each (just below $100,000).Following these payments, reports surfaced that Mr. Trump took a dinner meeting with the incoming CEO of Novartis
before Mr. Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in late January 2018.

[matt819]

38. Holy crap

Pay to play. Wtf?!

[Squinch]

2. This is a huge revelation, and not just the money from Vekselberg. All those other

payments that were carefully constructed to keep below the oversight amount are payments to trump for influence as well.

But don't be surprised when the right says that Vekselberg gave money to Hillary too, so there is nothing to see here.

[grantcart]

3. Not only that but it lists dozens of payments from AT and T, Korea, etc and

Cohen has already stated he only has 3 legal clients.

No wonder he thinks Cohen is going to flip.

Flip or jail.

[Squinch]

4. And all payments just a tiny bit less than 100K. This is a pay to play scheme

with the money going to trump and the cost being borne by you and me.

[malaise]

6. AT confirmed that it paid money

to Cohen to understand the incoming Con. Oh My!

[OliverQ]

19. Is AT&T facing legal problems over this?

Seems odd they would admit to it so quickly.

[malaise]

24. I hope so

Remember that attempt for a Time-Warner merger?
This really is a kakistocracy

[triron]

5. Avenatti to appear on Last Word tonite (10 edt)

[Stallion]

7. Send Forth Mr Ghouliani-He Should Be able to Wrap this up in a Week or so

[Ccarmona]

32. Didn't His Deadline of Wrapping Up the Russian Investigation in Two Weeks

Expire Yesterday?

[Stallion]

34. Yes but wouldn't you love to see Ghouliani explain how this Pay-to-Play Scheme was Legal

[mercuryblues]

44. Well he did say he would

end the investigation in 2 weeks. What he didn't say was how.

[Corgigal]

8. Hey NY daily news...

front page

Is Trump broke?

He will lose his mind. No charge.

[NCTraveler]

9. Seems this is it. Judith Millers husband, Jason Epstein, worked there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Nova

Doesn’t look like a shell company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=7666357

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Columbus Nova wasn't the shell but money came from them

and was wired directly to Cohen's shell - "Essential LLC".

[NCTraveler]

15. So much going on. Nt

[BumRushDaShow]

18. By snagging Cohen

all this stuff is coming out. He's been at it for a couple decades. And Cohen only got snagged because of Stormy and her lawyer.

[malaise]

26. Yep

Bravo Stormy! Bravo Avenatti!

[B2G]

10. How is Avenatti privy to all of this info? Nt

[grantcart]

11. People are sending it to him. AT & T just confirmed payment details by Avenatti are correct

[B2G]

14. But what people?

ATT didn't just randomly send this to him out of the blue.

[NCTraveler]

16. Well place Mueller leak? Nt

[B2G]

20. I've been told his office doesn't leak.

So does this in effect mean Trump didn't pay off Stormy? That the Russians did?

I can't keep up anymore.

[NCTraveler]

23. I've seen what I believe to be many Mueller leaks.

I’m not sure what this has to do with Stormy.

[Ccarmona]

33. Mueller Has Never Leaked Anything

That he didn’t want exposed to the Public.
I’m sure Avenatti has his own team of Investigators working on the cases filed for & against Stephanie Clifford.

[NCTraveler]

36. That is what a leak often is.

An item you want made public.

I agree this wasn’t one.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. When has he ever "used his own money" for something?

People even chuckle that he called himself "The King of Debt".



There were other payoffs that Cohen was executing, like the Broidy one that has a couple DU posts -

Trump lawyer arranged $1.6 million payoff to Playboy Playmate for Republican fundraiser: source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer arranged for a $1.6 million payment to a Playboy Playmate to keep secret her sexual relationship with Republican fundraiser and Trump ally Elliott Broidy, during which she became pregnant, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Michael Cohen, whose home and office were raided this week by FBI agents searching in part for information about payoffs to women alleging sexual encounters with Trump, handled the matter on behalf of Broidy.

The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was confirming a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The woman’s name has not been made public and the source declined to disclose it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-broidy/trump-lawyer-arranged-1-6-million-payoff-to-playboy-playmate-for-republican-fundraiser-source-idUSKBN1HK2LB

There was apparently this big slush fund to pull money from.

[grantcart]

17. won't find out right away. Deep throat turned out to be Deputy head of the FBI

Probably somebody who doesn't like Trumps attempt to dismantle the DOJ

Daily Beast just confirmed payments by Russians to Cohen.

[uponit7771]

46. My understanding from ODonnel show is the "Suspicious Activity" records are supposed to be public ..

... but the feds in Cali have been holding them

[B2G]

47. SARS are not public information.

They are highly confidential.

[Scurrilous]

12. Nice imagery!

[Leghorn21]

21. Adam Klasfeld is with courthousenews.com - he live tweets Daniels/Cohen hearings -

Link to tweet

?s=20

Trump's attorney Christopher Dysard, from Spears & Imes, declined to comment.

No response so far from Cohen's attorney.

[UCmeNdc]

22. Trump's pay to play shakedown scheme!

Corruption!

[grantcart]

25. NBC just confirmed payments made

[ismnotwasm]

27. K&R

[emulatorloo]

29. K&R

[mcar]

30. K&R

[Ilsa]

31. Swamp creatures. I guess he'll start a war by Friday

to try and stop this, saying we can't do anything to him while we are at war.

[7962]

35. Still waiting.............

[Johnny2X2X]

37. Had to be Russia

Just a big coincidence I tell you.

List of countries Trump’s personally attorney didn’t take $500K from shortly after the election:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Deps
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Rep
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo {Democratic Rep}
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland {Republic}
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea North
Korea South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar, {Burma}
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

[Chakaconcarne]

40. north Korea not listed here.....

wouldn't surprise me....

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. Is this as reckless as it seems?

It's as if they thought no one could or would ever check their records. Asinine.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. Rachel got a response from Novartis

and they threw their old CEO under the bus, saying that whatever "agreement" that occurred between them and Cohen for the money they sent to his shell company, was done before their new CEO came in!

[grantcart]

48. Mueller knew about this 6 months ago

[BumRushDaShow]

49. And you can tell by the staff he eventually brought on and when. nt

[Volaris]

42. How the hell did Stormys atty get to this before Mueller?

Or, do we think muellers had this for a bit, and just hasn't said anything (if so I'm glad he's running a tight ship over there=))

[grantcart]

43. Mueller has had it for months. Thats why they grabbed this Russian oligarch off the plane

[Volaris]

45. Thanks. )