Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen was paid half a million dollars by an American investment firm linked to one of Russia’s most high-profile oligarchs: Viktor Vekselberg. The payments — funneled into the same shell company Cohen used to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels, Essential Consultants LLC — kicked off the month Trump was sworn into office and continued through August, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer said in a statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday. Now, these cash transfers appear to provide the strongest evidence yet of a financial link between a recently sanctioned Russian oligarch with close …read more
Source: VICE News
