Swiss drug maker Novartis was questioned over ties to Trump attorney
Source: USA Today
John Fritze, USA TODAY Published 9:14 a.m. ET May 9, 2018
WASHINGTON — A Swiss pharmaceutical giant that paid President Trump’s personal attorney hundreds of thousands of dollars was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller late last year, the company acknowledged Wednesday.
A subsidiary of Novartis — which makes Ritalin, Lamisil and other well-known drugs — paid Trump attorney Michael Cohen nearly $400,000 from late 2017 to early 2018 as part of a one-year agreement company officials said expired in February. The company described Cohen’s work as “focused on US healthcare policy matters.”
Days after the final payment was made to a company Cohen created called Essential Consultants, Trump met with European business leaders for dinner in Switzerland, including Vasant Narasimhan, the CEO of Novartis International. The meeting, which took place at the World Economic Forum in Davos, was billed as an opportunity for the president to pitch overseas firms on investing in the United States.
The dinner also included Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer, which is based in Germany, and Mark Schneider, the CEO of Switzerland-based Nestle. There is no evidence Cohen helped to set up that meeting. A Novartis statement said the company hired Cohen’s firm before Narasimhan became CEO in September.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/09/novartis-questioned-mueller-ties-trump-attorney-michael-cohen/593732002/
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they can hop right to it (I'm sure some have but it may take awhile considering how convoluted the stuff is)! 
