Rachel Maddow going over how the "retainer fee" came about.

[LiberalFighter]

It appears that Weisselberg and Trump cooked up the monthly payment instead of total reimbursement. It was before presenting it to Cohen.

They have special Rachel segment with four others. Lawrence, Katie, Nicole, and Chris.

[Irish_Dem]

1. How do we know this?

Was it part of Cohen's testimony?

[nolabear]

2. Yes. He testified he left the organization and became tfg's personal lawyer

So they could disguise payments as being to him.

[Irish_Dem]

4. They went to a great deal of trouble to hide these payments.

Which of course means they knew it was a crime.

[nolabear]

7. And of course he never got paid either.

It’s a stiff-a-rama. Because when you’re famous they’ll let you do it, right?

[Irish_Dem]

8. What???? I assumed Cohen got paid all that was owed to him.

[getagrip_already]

10. He was repaid for the stormy capade, plus....

He got the $130k, plus enough to pay taxes, plus a bonus.

After that, he wasn't being directly paid to be tsf's personal atty, but he said he could get consulting fees from others seeking access (he used other words but that's what he meant).

So he wasn't complaining he wasn't being paid. That wasn't his issue.

Getting thrown under the tank and ending up in prison was his issue.

[LiberalFighter]

9. As I mentioned below. As personal attorney was he receiving a salary?

The $35k he received each month reimbursed him for the hush money.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Cohen said the frick and frack occurred regularly between trump and Weisselberg.

Chris just mentioned Trump and Weisselberg had the key meeting before Cohen showed up.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Wow. Long time partners in crime.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Strange that Cohen got reimbursed using retainer fee as the ploy

And he was identified as Trump's personal attorney at the time. In effect Cohen wasn't receiving a salary during those twelve months?

[cliffside]

11. KNR ... a 2 hour show tonight with Rachel et al. nt