Did Michael Cohen pay off hackers with the $50,000 he paid for "tech services,"
(according to the SDNY document)?
The Steele dossier says he paid off hackers through some "deniable" method.
The SDNY document said Cohen was reimbursed by Trump for $50,000 in "tech services."
Was there a connection?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/22/what-might-michael-cohen-tell-robert-mueller/?utm_term=.9122ae12479a
Another report indicates that Cohen was accompanied by “3 colleagues” to the meeting. The agenda included questions about how “deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the [Hillary Clinton] campaign and various contingencies for covering up these operations and Moscow’s secret liaison with the [Trump] team more generally.” The dossier alleges that Cohen was aware of a company that had targeted Democratic leaders by planting bugs and stealing data. In the meeting, the two sides allegedly agreed to protect that operation and to have “Romanian hackers” be paid off and cease their work.
We can overlay any number of theories onto this presentation of what might have happened. The initial release of files stolen from the Democratic National Committee involved a Russian intelligence officer claiming to be Romanian, for example, though that was publicly known at the time of Steele’s report. The government’s description of Cohen’s crimes released in conjunction with his plea deal on Tuesday includes a reimbursement to Cohen of $50,000 for “ ’tech services,’ which in fact related to work COHEN had solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.” It’s not clear what that was.
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