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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:37 PM Apr 2018

So, Cohen says Trump is a client and the "service" to him was a $130K

"Don't tell anyone" agreement with Stormy to keep her from publicizing their sexual (ew-w-w!) relationship.

Cohen says Elliot Broidy is a client and the "service" to him was a $1.6 million "Don't tell anyone" agreement with a Playboy Playmate to keep her from publicizing their sexual relationship which resulted in her pregnancy and abortion.

Reluctantly, Cohen names Sean Hannity as a client the "service" to him was---------------?

Besides the American public, who's Sean screwing?

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So, Cohen says Trump is a client and the "service" to him was a $130K (Original Post) Atticus Apr 2018 OP

Other than all the Con's base malaise Apr 2018 #1

This morning on MSNBC it was mentioned that 25% of campaign contributions taken in for politicaljunkie41910 Apr 2018 #2

Corruption at its best. IluvPitties Apr 2018 #3

I updated my post to provide a link to a story which supports what I reported earlier. politicaljunkie41910 Apr 2018 #4

I think you are reading that wrong. shanny Apr 2018 #5

The reporting was 3rd qtr Campaign donations. I don't know whether that is on a calendar year or politicaljunkie41910 Apr 2018 #6

Stormy was paid $130,000 in hush money right before the election in 2016. shanny Apr 2018 #7

malaise

(269,015 posts)

1. Other than all the Con's base

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:39 PM

Apr 2018

I'm not sure.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)

2. This morning on MSNBC it was mentioned that 25% of campaign contributions taken in for

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:43 PM

Apr 2018

the 3rd quarter reporting was for legal fees of which $800K went to lawyers and $280K went to Stormy Daniels lawyers. This caught my attention and I wrote it down since Stormy claimed to receive $130K and I immediately said, who got the other $150K. That's is why I now believe that Trump is using the Campaign contributions, specifically the Legal fees as a personal slush fund.

...The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year — about $348,000 — went to Jones Day, a law firm representing the campaign in the investigations by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and several congressional committees into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Another $280,000 combined was paid to two law firms — Harder LLP and Larocca, Hornik, Rosen, Greenberg & Blaha — representing Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen in litigation with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.

Daniels filed a lawsuit in March seeking to invalidate a 2016 agreement to keep secret a decade-old alleged sexual encounter with Trump in exchange for $130,000. The president and Cohen have filed their own suit against her, threatening to seek millions in damages. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-reelection-committee-has-spent-more-than-1-out-of-every-5-on-legal-fees-this-year/2018/04/15/2a9248e8-40f1-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.70719510a89e

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)

3. Corruption at its best.

Reply to politicaljunkie41910 (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:45 PM

Apr 2018

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)

4. I updated my post to provide a link to a story which supports what I reported earlier.

Reply to IluvPitties (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:58 PM

Apr 2018

shanny

(6,709 posts)

5. I think you are reading that wrong.

Reply to politicaljunkie41910 (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 05:14 PM

Apr 2018

Not $280,000 to Daniels' lawyers, $280,000 to lawyers working on that case, for tRump. Daniels got her payout in 2016.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)

6. The reporting was 3rd qtr Campaign donations. I don't know whether that is on a calendar year or

Reply to shanny (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 12:18 PM

Apr 2018

some fiscal year, but assuming it was on a calendar year, that would have been the period July-Sept 2017. None of us knew who Stormy was so why would Trump and Cohen be paying for attorney's fees in excess of the original payoff of $130,000 in 3rd Qtr 2017 if she was paid in 2016. Also, Trump claims that he knew nothing about the payoff when asked and instructed the press to ask Cohen. Well I know Trump is a liar, but Cohen has his "proforma sex payoff documents" already available for these types of events so why the need to rack up an additional $150K in attorney's fees. Perhaps those fees were for Stormy's attorney, but my experience has been that the Plaintiff usually pays her own attorney out of her settlement. But assuming Team Trump/Cohen paid her attorney's fees as well, again, why were these fees reported paid in 3rd quarter 2017 and not 2016 when actually paid.

My theory is that Trump is using the Campaign financing as a slush fund for paying himself and Cohen because legal fees as probably less likely to receive a lot of scrutiny because they are part of the ordinary expenses one would reasonably expect to incur, and but for Stormy coming forward, no one would even be paying attention to this line item in a quarterly report. It caught my attention because the reports specifically said that $280,000 had been paid to attorneys in the Stormy Daniels case and the amount exceeded what we had been hearing repeatedly in the news.

shanny

(6,709 posts)

7. Stormy was paid $130,000 in hush money right before the election in 2016.

Reply to politicaljunkie41910 (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:45 PM

Apr 2018

And her desire to break that agreement--assuming there was an actual legal agreement--is racking up legal fees now.

"...The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year....Daniels filed a lawsuit in March seeking to invalidate a 2016 agreement...."

tRump may very well be using his campaign to finance a slush fund but last year's "3rd quarter donations" had nothing to do with Stormy's payout in 2016.

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