he never gets to leave. of ukraine s military aid. now, what s his background that he always has to stay in vienna, might make him a better fit inside this scheme? austria. why is that? that s where he is under house he s the former executive arrest. he is a ukraine an billionaire, director of the wisconsin a favorite of the kremlin who is republican party. so maybe that s enough. a billionaire because of the that s perfect. kremlin. he is described as an upper echelon associating of russian they have got to get the real people, the career people, especially the people who know what s illegal, they have got to organized crime. he was arrested several years ago after the u.s. government get them out of the way so they requested his arrest because can instead install the million dollar inaugural donor and the they wanted him extradited to this country to face trial on a guy from the wisconsin republican party to be in charge multi billion dollar bribery of what is otherwise to be the pro
that not only did they get questioned as a corporation about this deal with michael cohen, but their previous ceo, who quit unexpectedly last fall, and he is being blamed now for having set up this deal with michael cohen, the company is now admitting this they re previous ceo, he also was personally interviewed by the lawyers from mueller s office. novartis has had its own problems with corruption. two years ago they paid $25 million to settle an investigation that they bribed people in china to help their business. the year before that novartis agreed to pay almost $400 million for to settle what was essentially a bribery scam, a kickback scam to boost their drug sales in the united states. just last month reuters reported that novartis is under investigation again in the nation of greece this time for another bribery and kickback scheme. so whether it whether or not it is surprising to see a company like that in the middle of this michael cohen story trying to get away for a sec
the year before that novartis agreed to pay almost $400 million for to settle what was essentially a bribery scam, a kickback scam to boost their drug sales in the united states. just last month reuters reported that novartis is under investigation again in the nation of greece this time for another bribery and kickback scheme. so whether it whether or not it is surprising to see a company like that in the middle of this michael cohen story trying to get away for a second with calling him a health care policy consultant and then telling us the story that they just put him on the payroll for $1.2 million for a year for nothing, whether or not it s surprising to see them in the middle of this scandal, honestly, what is surprising to me, for a company like this, with that recent legal history that they ve got, they haven t figured out how to make innocent-sounding public statements when they get accused of being involved in something this shady? you haven t figured out that your first