a couple of things are interesting about that. first of all, at&t is hiring essential consulting to provide insights to under the new administration. i don t know who they is unless they consider michael and cohen to be two people. at&t is saying they needed to hire this firm, michael cohen s weird shell company that pays porn stars, they needed to hire them for hundreds of thousands of dollars to get insight. why would at&t want to put michael cohen on the freaking payroll in 2017? i mean, they have important government business. they re trying to go through this merger with time warner. they had strong interest in the net neutrality matter. finally, we got what i consider to be a surprising statement from novartis, the
million bucks and tons more money was being paid into that company. not by michael cohen s home equity loan but by at&t. at&t, korea aerospace, novartis and an investment fund tied to one of the richest men in russia. he is an oligarch. he is one of the original. he is one of the richest men in russia. he is considered to be close to vladimir putin. he was sanctioned last month by the u.s. government because of his links to putin as was his company. the firm that apparently paid michael cohen $500,000 and landed itself on the front page of the new york times right now, it s a private equity firm that used to call itself on its website the u.s. investment vehicle for the renova group. they have dropped that description on their website now that renova group and its founder have been sanctioned by the u.s. government. it s illegal to do business with
him or the renova group. we learned last week that victor was stopped by federal agents working for robert mueller and his investigators as he landed in a private plane at a new york area airport in the past couple of months. mueller s team reportedly questioned him, including, it s reported, about the payments to michael cohen. it s been reported that investigators asked to search his electronic devices but we don t flow know if they did so. we know they asked. we re getting statements from some of the companies mentioned in this document as allegedly giving funds to michael cohen, paying into essential consultants. a spokesman for columbus nova, the u.s. affiliate of renova, had this to say. columbus nova is a management company solely owned and controlled by americans. after the inauguration, the firm