Cohen referred client with Kushner ties to lobbying firm
One of the clients Michael Cohen referred to law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs during a “strategic partnership” is a company with ties to Kushner Cos., according to The Wall Street Journal.
That company, U.S. Immigration Fund LLC, became a client of the firm last year and had previously organized a trip for Kushner Cos., the family business of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner that is currently under federal investigation.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors wrote in a legal filing that Cohen had referred five clients to Squire Patton Boggs as part of a strategic partnership with the firm that ended this March.
As part of the agreement, it said, Cohen would be paid an annual $500,000 “strategic alliance fee,” in addition to a cut of fees paid by the clients he brought in.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/387032-cohen-referred-client-with-kushner-ties-to-lobbying