related to the access hollywood tape. tape made public in october 2016 before the election. a tape in which the president, future president, bragged in crude terms about what he was able to get away with in terms of man handling and assaulting women without getting in trouble for it. also been reported that, as spelled out in the search warrant related to michael cohen, federal agents were also looking for material in his office, in his home, related to a payment. money that was paid to adult film actress, stormy daniel. right before the election to keep her from talking about her alleged sexual affair with donald trump. also reportedly spelled out in the search warrant, therefore a target for fbi agents when they raided michael cohen last week. was, information related to money that was paid to former playboy model karen mcdougal. the payment effectively to keep her from telling her story what was an ongoing, 10 months long,
would have been litigated. would have resulted in the media company having to hand over their own communication and documents that led to this agreement with ms. mcdougal. if this payment to ms. mcdougal is of interest to prosecutors pursuing this as a criminal matter? no reason at all they re going to get all the stuff. probably more than would have come out in civil discovery. so nothing abut th aing abou ai undercuts the work federal prosecutors will do. they get this stuff. put people on the grand jury. we have seen from indictments in the mueller case, for instance, how good federal prosecutors are of following the money. they will follow the money. that s the key issue here i guess for me. on this issue of the criminal case, i haven t had a chance yet to ask you what you make of the jurisdiction issues here. obviously this is described as this matter with involving
paid, got to come up with money to pay you. no, no, no. we donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. ami isn t paying her fees? no. if she sells ter storher sto. if she sells her story. she has to pay $75,000 to ami. it doesn t feel like a total victory. answer me this. if this contract had been voided she would have to pay them $150,000, give the money back and be done. here she got out of every obligation under the contract. she doesn t have to do articles. doesn t have to take pictures. they gave her her life rights back immediately. minus $75 t. minus $75,000 if she happens to sell it. she doesn t want to. that is the maximum, 10% up to $75,000. that s basically the best that we could have gotten had we litigated this to the end. do, did you get any pressure from, any body, in political circles, that this should be
lawsuit against the state. obviously, you need to work cooperatively with the state in a way thatcity has in u.s. history, because do who caused this crisis in the first place, what are you hoping from from this lawsuit? you know what, this lawsuit is about more than water pods staying open. in addition to that we talked about things we need, we need fixtures in the home, we need in home plumbing, hot water heaters, these things have been damaged. we talked about the reputation and how this impacted the reputation of our cities. there was a loss of property values, they went down. we ve had civil liabilities that have happened as a result of this, we ve had permanent loss of residents so the money we would have been collecting is gone. so this is about much more than water pods. it s about justice for the city of flint. karen weaver, the mayor of
magazine cover from ami. reported but not accurate? not accurate. it makes me upset. we worked hard to negotiate this. and we made it clear she didn t want money. she just didn t want to deal with these people. does sunny want he want to g? none of her material published in the publications. hear me out. important to understand what happened. ami insist they d have the right to repurpose old pictures and articles because they want to save face. they want to put her on their magazine, and say, oh, thirtz nothirtz there is noth going on here. a commercial relationship. it is a fraud. she was tricked into a deal. so that her lawyer who was working with michael cohen, and ami, could kill a story. that s what happened. they can spin it any way they want. the thing that is difficult for me to understand. she was able to tell the story while under contract if under dispute because of the lawsuit. when she gets out of this, she is not getting her legal fees