Cohen Atty: 'I Believe' He Submitted Hush Money Invoices To Trump Org CFO

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By Matt Shuham
August 22, 2018 6:43 pm


Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis said Wednesday that he believed Cohen submitted invoices for a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels to Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg. Davis, at first, mistook a question from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer as being about “the technology contract,” which may be a reference to a $50,000 payment Cohen made in 2016 as reported by CNBC.

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[MontanaMama]

1. Keep the subpoenas coming!

Time for Mr. Weisselberg to spend a little time in the barrel.

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2. knowing donnie, somehow he used charitable foundation money for this....

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Someone wanted the payments to come "from the Trust"

"The Company" is the Trump Organization:

On February 14, 2017, COHEN sent an executive of the Company (“Executive-1”) the first of his monthly invoices, requesting “[p]ursuant to [a] retainer agreement, . . . payment for services rendered for the months of January and February, 2017.” The invoice listed $35,000 for each of those two months. Executive-1 forwarded the invoice to another executive of the Company (“Executive-2”) the same day by email, and it was approved. Executive-1 forwarded that email to another employee at the Company, stating: “Please pay from the Trust. Post to legal expenses. Put ‘retainer for the months of January and February 2017’ in the description.”

Throughout 2017, COHEN sent to one or more representatives of the Company monthly invoices, which stated, “Pursuant to the retainer agreement, kindly remit payment for services rendered for” the relevant month in 2017, and sought $35,000 per month. The Company accounted for these payments as legal expenses. In truth and in fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices COHEN submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax

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6. of course! why *wouldn't* he commit tax fraud as well?

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4. I'm starting to think Lanny Davis should shut up. The idea that he can convey any

information to Mueller or any prosecutor that they don’t already understand seems unlikely.

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R