for mueller, what he wants to know, basically, is every dollar that went into essential llc and every dollar that came out and what kind of financial crimes could those describe, it s a little hard to say. as tim says, there s probably mischief of an international nature but it s enough to get your antenna buzzing as the prosecutor. and jennifer, mueller new all of this, and more, obviously, including where the money went, before the referral of this information was made to the southern district of new york, before he basically handed over this file and everything he found out about it and sent it up here to new york. that s right. we re hearing that at&t and novartis spoke to mueller s team in november. it was probably sometime between november and january when the case went to sdny.
pro quo by an office holder, the fact that cohen is going around basically being a grifter doesn t necessarily sound as a federal crime. there are things that might have been fraudulent and violation of election law in the stormy daniels thing and that might be insighted his interest. but if you re a prosecutor and you find this mess with an llc, what is going on that he s doing the $130,000 payment but also the repository for the $4 million, there s some reason to think that based on the contract with stormy daniels, which has some anomalous passages that it was sort of used in other places, i think for mueller, what he wants to know, basically, is every dollar that went into essential llc and every dollar that came out and what kind of financial crimes could those describe, it s a little hard to say. as tim says, there s probably mischief of an international