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Miami remembers when "the fixer" came to town.
Video at link.
Donald Trump once wanted his own movie studio. So he sent Michael Cohen to Miami
...It was the summer of 2012 when the future president's self-described "fixer" donned a dark suit and a purple tie to pitch county commissioners on converting county land outside Homestead into an 800-acre production facility called "Trump Studio City."
"I'm the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump," Cohen said from the well of the nearly empty commission chambers on June 5, 2012, as he launched into a presentation on a production hub designed to rival Hollywood.
Trump's brief flirtation with a Homestead movie studio remains a well-known local chapter in the celebrity mogul's long history of Miami business deals and would-be ventures. Less memorable is the starring role of Cohen, now the most famous of Trump's private-sector advisers for paying alleged hush money to a porn star who claimed an affair with the president.
"Is that right?! I didn't even remember the man," said Commissioner Dennis Moss, who represents Homestead and spoke to Cohen from the dais during that 2012 meeting. "I didn't realize Cohen — the fixer — was trying to put a fix on us."
...It was the summer of 2012 when the future president's self-described "fixer" donned a dark suit and a purple tie to pitch county commissioners on converting county land outside Homestead into an 800-acre production facility called "Trump Studio City."
"I'm the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump," Cohen said from the well of the nearly empty commission chambers on June 5, 2012, as he launched into a presentation on a production hub designed to rival Hollywood.
Trump's brief flirtation with a Homestead movie studio remains a well-known local chapter in the celebrity mogul's long history of Miami business deals and would-be ventures. Less memorable is the starring role of Cohen, now the most famous of Trump's private-sector advisers for paying alleged hush money to a porn star who claimed an affair with the president.
"Is that right?! I didn't even remember the man," said Commissioner Dennis Moss, who represents Homestead and spoke to Cohen from the dais during that 2012 meeting. "I didn't realize Cohen — the fixer — was trying to put a fix on us."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article209848744.html