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Michael Cohen brokered mysterious $1.8 million loan to pool boy that Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife befriended (full title)
Jerry Falwell Jr. confirmed that he loaned $1.8 million with the help of President Donald Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen to a young pool attendant he and his wife had befriended while staying six years ago at a luxury hotel.
Buzzfeed News had previously reported on a lawsuit that claimed the evangelical leader and his wife had developed a friendly relationship in 2012 with Giancarlo Granda, then 21 years old, at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and Falwell confirmed in a court filing that he helped set up the younger man in business.
Cohen, who was sentenced earlier this month to three years in prison as part of a case involving payoffs to Trump mistresses, helped broker the Falwells endorsement of Granda to invest in a dormitory-style hotel in Miami Beach.
A source close to Falwell told Buzzfeed News he was sure Falwell had discussed the Granda case with Cohen before endorsing Trump for president, although theres no evidence to show those discussions were related.
Granda was introduced in 2012 to Trump, then a reality TV star and real estate mogul, at Liberty University, where the celebrity businessman was giving a convocation speech, which was also attended by Cohen.
More here --> https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/michael-cohen-brokered-mysterious-1-8-million-loan-pool-boy-jerry-falwell-jr-wife-befriended/
Jerry Falwell Jr. confirmed that he loaned $1.8 million with the help of President Donald Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen to a young pool attendant he and his wife had befriended while staying six years ago at a luxury hotel.
Buzzfeed News had previously reported on a lawsuit that claimed the evangelical leader and his wife had developed a friendly relationship in 2012 with Giancarlo Granda, then 21 years old, at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and Falwell confirmed in a court filing that he helped set up the younger man in business.
Cohen, who was sentenced earlier this month to three years in prison as part of a case involving payoffs to Trump mistresses, helped broker the Falwells endorsement of Granda to invest in a dormitory-style hotel in Miami Beach.
A source close to Falwell told Buzzfeed News he was sure Falwell had discussed the Granda case with Cohen before endorsing Trump for president, although theres no evidence to show those discussions were related.
Granda was introduced in 2012 to Trump, then a reality TV star and real estate mogul, at Liberty University, where the celebrity businessman was giving a convocation speech, which was also attended by Cohen.
More here --> https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/michael-cohen-brokered-mysterious-1-8-million-loan-pool-boy-jerry-falwell-jr-wife-befriended/
To recap, Cohen's clients:
Trump, Hannity, Broidy & Falwell Jr.
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Cohen brokered mysterious $1.8 million loan to pool boy that Jerry Falwell Jr & his wife befriended (Original Post)
PunkinPi
Dec 2018
OP
Says the internal monologue of his wife: "I don't even know this guy. What's Jerry's connection?"
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,436 posts)1. Well at least it wasn't the ranch hand or the stable boy.
Advice: do not search Google Images for "stable boy" at work.
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)16. Perhaps he's a specialist, you know... like a breeder
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)2. Says the internal monologue of his wife: "I don't even know this guy. What's Jerry's connection?"
Cattledog
(5,914 posts)3. Pool Boy!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)4. Ohhhhhhhhhhh
I love dis!!
ScratchCat
(1,988 posts)5. Come on
Who doesn't loan a young pool boy nearly $2 million to start a business?
(This is going to get good. I'm still waiting to see who Hannity paid off for what too)
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)6. A loan or hush money?
Inquiring minds want to know.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)7. Hush, now!
3_Limes
(363 posts)8. This has the potential to deliver thebiggest and best slice of schadenfreud pie I've ever had!
Can't wait to here more!!
Just no way this all pure and innocent.
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)9. Coffee Boy did not do this well.
Autumn
(45,071 posts)10. The pool boy the two of them befriended?
So they bought him a job so he could be hired as the manager for $1.8 million?
"Granda was hired as the manager despite having no relevant experience in real estate or hotel management."
yeah right
3_Limes
(363 posts)12. So just what might Grenada's area of expertice be?
I'm very, very curious to discover that!
Autumn
(45,071 posts)14. I think his area of expertise must be the laying on of hands.
Or laying on someone.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)18. Maybe he was a dancing instructor.
Doin the Bossa nova?
No, doin the bossa favor. Nyuk nyuk.
czarjak
(11,274 posts)11. God's will...
Obviously!
Vinca
(50,269 posts)13. Holy shit . . . what did a pool boy have to do to get $1.8 million??
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)15. I'm sure that was just a rhetorical question...
Because whatever it was, it wasn't hotel management.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)17. Friendly friends (R)
are the friendliest kind (R).
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)19. Hmmm HMMMMMMM...
nothing fishy there...
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)20. That's one hell of a pool boy
Must have been great at his job. Probably greatest ever.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)21. Sometimes a pool boy is just a pool boy!
Someone had to say it.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)22. I know pool boy is an honorable profession...
...but damn, the jokes.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)23. Came back to KICK, because this story is the most delightful of the day!!
And this is just the very teeny beginning of this saga
YEAH BABY