GOPers Revealed Cohen Briefly Hired To Probe Kazakh Bank Embezzlement Scheme

By Josh Kovensky
February 28, 2019 2:52 pm

It’s one of the world’s biggest embezzlement cases, featuring a global hunt for $6 billion stolen from a Kazakh bank that’s led investigators to Russia, a Trump Manhattan property, and a dawn raid along the French riviera. But the case took a bizarre turn on Wednesday, when it was revealed that Michael Cohen was linked to the investigation.

Republicans asked the former Trump fixer about his work for Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank during the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, trying to accuse the former Trump fixer of failing to register as a lobbyist for the Kazakh government.

“BTA Bank, did you get money from them?” a red-faced Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) growled at the hearing.

Cohen confirmed that he did, but said he was hired to help the bank locate stolen money. He said that some of the money “was here in the United States and they sought my assistance in finding, locating that money and helping them to collect it.”

A lawyer for BTA Bank confirmed on Thursday that it had hired Cohen in 2017, but told TPM that Cohen “did absolutely nothing of value” for the lender.

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