So it looks like that Essential Consulting LLC set up by Michael Cohen to pay Stormy Daniels was also used to collect large sums for influence peddling — excuse me, consulting fees — from corporations with pending government cases. Hmm. I wonder if there’s a connection? Ha ha, just kidding! This was out-and-out graft.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/993960339443200000
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/993959992762994688
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/994009175612116992
I think this is your answer right here >>> https://t.co/DT453FRCZL
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 9, 2018
AT&T confirms it paid consulting fees to the same LLC that was used to pay a pornstar to keep quiet about an affair she says she had with @POTUS https://t.co/98D72UFZF0
— Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) May 8, 2018
Our @NatashaBertrand just got off the phone with both Michael Cohen's lawyer and Stormy Daniels's lawyer. (Cohen's lawyer followed up: “Don’t contact me again. Ever.”) https://t.co/I9OOKIzS1z
— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) May 8, 2018
Just received a statement from an anti-money laundering expert regarding the Vekselberg/Cohen payments: "Cohen's exposure is DEFCON 1 based on the alleged bank fraud violations and receiving funds from $500,000 from Viktor Vekselberg, a now sanctioned individual."
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/gregpinelo/status/993971566038921217
— 🇺🇸TXSnark7🇺🇸 (@TXsnark7) May 8, 2018
From the Avenatti document:
"Hungary: Mr. Cohen received two wire transfers totaling $10,980 from KOBE EVA KERESKEDELMI to an account in Singapore…."
"The remittances reference an invoice and a 'Ms. Nikolett Vadja'."
Hm. Nikolett Vadja?
Google Translate, here to help: pic.twitter.com/zOwOe5cU6l
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 8, 2018
Is that the sound of Michael Cohen flipping?
The sad part of all of these revelations is that this is how the oligarchs (our fearless leaders) have operated for centuries.
Our Framers tried to minimize the role of the oligarchs with a Constitution which called for a robust legal system.
So the oligarchs immediately got to work trying to undermine the entire process by perverting the Constitution using their greatest resource.
Cash. (Everybody has a price.)
The battle between the oligarchs and labor has been fought time and again in this country with each side prevailing from time to time.
When the oligarchs in the South decided that the only way to compete with the industrialized North was by owning labor (people) as property, a Civil War broke out.
Trump is, for the oligarchs (our leaders), an embarrassing, public example of ‘them.’
But they love him because he’s making these obnoxious, criminals rich. And they’ll continue to ride the Trump gravy train until they’re tossed off by the “people.”