i wanted to know what i can call you. i don t want to call you kidnapper, terrorist. just give me a name. reporter: mr. so was calm, business-like, like he d done it 100 times before. in fact, he was the voice for a violent separatist group known for executing prisoners, beheadings usually. we would like to tell you that we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. can you hear me? and i just was thinking, are you losing your mind? who do you think you ve got? just couldn t believe it. $10 million. from me. reporter: why would they think heiko had 10 million? perhaps they d watched the internet. in lynchburg the kidnapping was big news. tv crews set up shop across the street and captured heiko driving his used mercedes coupe. there you were in your fancy car. yes. you must be worth millions.
just give me a name. reporter: mr. so was calm, business-like, like he d done it 100 times before. in fact, he was the voice for a violent separatist group known for executing prisoners, beheadings usually. we would like to tell you that we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. can you hear me? and i just was thinking, are you losing your mind? who do you think you ve got? just couldn t believe it. $10 million. from me. reporter: why would they think heiko had 10 million? perhaps they d watched the internet. in lynchburg the kidnapping was big news. tv crews set up shop across the street and captured heiko driving his used mercedes coupe. there you were in your fancy car. yes. you must be worth millions. that was a wrong, wrong impression.
cohen s taxi medallions were worth millions, that is until ride share companies until uber and lyft came along. in 2003 cohen tried his hand at politics. among accomplishments he touted was, quote, when the coffee shop in my neighborhood got lazy about its trash i heckled them into obtaining a state-of-the-art disposal system. he lost that election, a minor setback for a man with a thriving real estate business. as a young man he read art of the deal avidly. i think that he said he read it more than once. at the very moment when he first could do it he bought a unit in a trump building. and then all of a sudden his relatives were buying units in trump buildings. and then michael cohen was buying multiple units in trump buildings and on the board of one of them. i think that this looks like a fellow who was pursuing donald trump.
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