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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNovartis kept paying Cohen, so not to "anger" Trump..
Why would be be angered, unless he was getting a cut himself?
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/05/09/trumps-lawyer-cohen-fixer-novartis/
In March 2017, a group of Novartis employees, mostly from the government affairs and lobbying teams, met with Cohen in New York to discuss specific issues and strategies. But the meeting was a disappointment, the insider explained, and the Novartis squad left with the impression that Cohen and Essential Consultants the firm controlled by Cohen that Novartis was making payments to may not be able to deliver.
At first, it all sounded impressive, but toward the end of the meeting, everyone realized this was a probably a slippery slope to engage him. So they decided not to really engage Cohen for any activities after that, the employee continued. Rather than attempt to cancel the contract, the company allowed it to lapse early in 2018 and not run the risk of ticking off the president. It might have caused anger, this person said.
As the contract expiration date neared earlier this year, Cohen then approached Vasant Narasimhan, who by then had succeeded Jimenez as Novartis chief executive, according to the employee. Narasimhan declined to renew the arrangement and the contract lapsed.
A Novartis spokesman on Wednesday maintained that Narasimhan had no involvement with the contract. This episode was clearly a mistake, the spokesman said.
Girard442
(6,070 posts)malaise
(268,976 posts)BULLSHIT!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)travel to get said democrat far enough away from the deplorables who would hunt him or her down and end them.
NONE of what has happened, NONE Of the 3000 lies or crimes would be tolerated by a Democrat.
Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)XRubicon
(2,212 posts)Paying bribes is a slippery slope? Who knew, no one could have known this.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Im thinking hed shake down as many people as he could and randomly reward one of them... maybe. He was auctioning off policy.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Extortion
GusBob
(7,286 posts)" we were afraid of angering the president"
Proves he knew about the payments
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Ya know what? This story will make Trump proud. Huge ego boost to him, the power of his ire makes mere corporations tremble
We need to go thru his tweets and find out what companies refused to pony up. He would have blasted them on twitter
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)he's always operated.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Novartis. AT&T. The Koreans. The Russian Gangsters. Lordy knows who else.
This should have never happened. It's bribery. And they all seem to claim
that it's okay know because they're contracts have lapsed. Geeesh.
Mueller is gonna need a shitload more subpoenas.