profiting off his ties to people in power. and companies that hired him like at&t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. i know the game. i understand it. so many people have come up, lobbyists. i said i don t want money from lobbyi lobbyists. the system we have is broken. a guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. it is time to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. that s the best case scenario of what cohen has been up to. here is the thing. there are numerous reasons to believe that scenario may not be the truth. for starters, let s start with this. prior to taking money from corporate clients, cohen s llc of central consultants was being used to pay hush money to the president s mistress and unexplainably to a former
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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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Campaign payments or payments related to something that happened some time ago in the weeks before an election. in your opinion, would the evidence that we have, including a bank draft receipt, you believe that this is fairly obviously a campaign related? it seems pretty clear that it is, given in particular stormy daniels affair many, many years ago, as you said. and suddenly right before the election money is funneled through cohen s llc to keep her quiet. it seems that there s a very strong likelihood that it was done to help the campaign and to influence the election. and because of that, it would be considered a contribution. and not only is it it in excess of the contribution limitations, which is $2,700 per candidate
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.