News. Robert muellers team has questioned a Russian Oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars that his company sent to Michael Cohen after the election. This is according to a source familiar with the matter. Victor is the name of the Russian Oligarch. You see him there. He has close ties to putin. He is one of two Russian Oligarchs the fbi stopped to question earlier this year when their private jets landed in new york area airports. Now this questioning was part of russias probe. Last month, the Trump Administration placed him on the list. Now according to Michael Avenatti tonight, the amount of money was roughly 500 thourk and it was paid to cohen between january and august of 2017. So all within President Trumps administration. The first payment avenatti says was within 75 days of when cohen paid Stormy Daniels 135,000 to keep quiet b about her alleged affair with the president. Avenatti speculates these may have been used to reimburse cocoa hen. Whatever they were used for,