political opponents, rudy is trying to strike up a business deal with him. he s trying to arrange a contract where rudy s firm will get $200,000, or $300,000 as a retainer fee purportedly to do some work helping lutsenko with an asset recovery idea he wanted to do in the u.s. a little confusing there, but bottom line of the story is we re sort of learning what was in this for rudy? you know, he stood to make money getting in this business arranged if it were to have come to pass with mr. lutsenko and this also would have given mr. lutsenko kind of a direct business tie to the president s lawyer. we already knew they worked together, but a financial tie is a little more significant. would have made a couple hundred thousands dollars in exchange for reporting information aid on the bidens and information part of this conspiracy it was ukraine and not russia who interfered in our
tell us about where the original money came from? we don t know where the money originally came from. the president s lawyer, he insists can came from what he calls the domestic source. he says it was legitimate. he says he vetted it, but so far he hasn t shown what the source was. and when he s saying that of course the money would have come from somebody in the united states, but where did it come from before that? and that s the question, of course. he s saying he should be somehow believes it comes from a domestic source. we don t know that, though. to be clear was this salary that was being paid to mr. giuliani where what he was doing for donald trump or was this money being paid to him for something else? as i understand it it was more along the lines of a fee, consulting fee, retainer fee, that sort of thing. spl and is it in your reporting typical for an ad hoc foreign policy official, somebody who s
been cut. it would be pretty obvious what that was. i think the reason they broke it up so they could claim, well, this is abon innocent retainer fee. look at the timing. the payments started after the hush money payments. rudy giuliani said at one point trump reimbursed michael cohen for the payments. ult p another question surrounding the investigations of the southern district of new york, again, separate from mueller s investigations, a viewer asks could trump and the members of his organization be prosecuted for racketeering? sure. so, rico is the federal racketeering law. it was really pioneered, the use of it, in the 80s by rudy giuliani in the southern district of new york. he used it to go after the ma a mafia, the traditional italian mob. decades later i used the same tool in the southern district to also go after the mafia. here s the thing. rico is not just for the mafia anymore. in recent years it s, used against corruption organizations, corrupt political organizatio
the drug giant ceo sending an e-mail to all staff saying, yesterday was not a good day for novartis given the news about their relationship with cohen. but if yesterday was bad for novartis today could be worse. take a look at this new reporting. it turns out this is according to stat news that specializes in health care coverage, that the $100,000 monthly retainer fee that novartis was paying to cohen s llc was to help it better understand u.s. health care policy matters and it was four times more, i m going to repeat that, quadruple what it paid any other qualified external lobbyist. also according to stat news, novartis has spent $12 million on lobbying since trump took office. compare that to the 1.2 million that went entirely to michael cohen. about 10% of everything this giant company says they ve spent on lobbying. then you have the amount at&t handed over to cohen. michael avenatti in his initial
novartis today could be worse. take a look at this new reporting. it turns out this is according to stat news that specializes in health care coverage, that the $100,000 monthly retainer fee that novartis was paying to cohen s llc was to help it better understand u.s. health care policy matters and it was four times more, i m going to repeat that, quadruple what it paid any other qualified external lobbyist. also according to stat news, novartis has spent $12 million on lobbying since trump took office. compare that to the 1.2 million that went entirely to michael cohen. about 10% of everything this giant company says they ve spent on lobbying. then you have the amount at&t handed over to cohen. michael avenatti in his initial report had said at&t had given essential consultants about 200,000. the actual amount, now that this is all coming out with new reporting, it tops out closer to 600,000.