$100,000 for brokering the deal. that broker, the man representing the qatari company in this 2014 real estate deal at this ocala, florida, air park, that man was an executive with the trump organization. the man's name is michael cohen and the "wall street journal" was able to chase down this strange real estate deal that michael cohen brokered a few years ago because this week michael cohen pled guilty to among other things hiding the $100,000 that he made selling property to a private aviation community in florida. hiding that $100,000 from the irs and failing to pay taxes on it on a property that was possessed because the owners didn't pay tax. frank merschman the owner of jumbolair tells the "journal" the fbi interviewed him a few months ago about the transaction and said "i cooperated with them 100%."