Cohen wasn't getting income for consulting work*.

[Botany]

Cohen was getting paid all those millions of $s for consulting work he was taking bribes to sell access to or
influence w/Donal Trump and no doubt Trump was getting the lion’s share of that dirty money.


BTW but really what about Hillary’s email server?


* https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142056375

[madaboutharry]

1. The next wave of breaking news

The next wave of breaking news will hopefully be when we all learn who has all that money.

Certainly there is more than the $4.5 million we already know about and certainly there are more corporations who poured money into Cohen's shake down account.

[Orsino]

2. Alternate framing: Cohen has dirt on the president...

...and uses it to insist that he see Cohen's clients on demand.

The story would seem not to be so much that Cohen is corrupt as that the president readily accedes to blackmail.

[Botany]

3. Rolling Stone

Cohen's uncle, Morton Levine, was a wealthy Brooklyn doctor who owned the El Caribe Country Club, a Brooklyn catering hall and event space that was a well-known hangout for Russian gangsters. Cohen and his siblings all had ownership stakes in the club, which rented for years to the first Mafiya boss of Brighton Beach, Evsei Agron, along with his successors, Marat Balagula and Boris Nayfeld.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-cohens-ties-to-russia-crime-and-trump-w518941

[jmg257]

4. Yep - Not a foundation - but similar access!