The whole Michael Cohen thing sounds like it could be very bad for Trump Inc.
I didn't appreciate how up to his eyeballs Cohen is in Trumps bidnez.
Where to start?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawy ... 1523638726President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by a top Republican fundraiser, according to people familiar with the matter.
Fixer-supreme. No big; we already know he's 'fixed' a few things via the application of money.
The Broidy agreement uses the same pseudonyms for Mr. Broidy and Ms. Bechard—David Dennison and Peggy Peterson—as the earlier agreement used for Mr. Trump and Ms. Clifford, respectively, the person familiar with the matter said. Both agreements had separate side letters that listed the real names of the parties, this person said.
Okay, a fixer, minus the 'supreme' bit. But, that's just paying-off women with whom Trump did some in-depth consulting (I thought he was a germaphobe?), right?
http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller- ... nce-2018-4The special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence linking Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, to a secret trip to Prague in the summer of 2016, McClatchy reported Friday.
Ohhh, so there's the Mueller tie-in. That has something to do with a famous dossier.
At this point, it's important to highlight that the investigation into Cohen's activity which resulted in the raid on his office, home, and hotel room, was part of a New York Southern District investigation - not the one led by Mueller, though the raid was a result of Mueller tipping-off the NYSD folks.
In other words, Trump can stomp on Mueller, but he can't stop the NYSD investigation.
But, surely Michael Cohen is an upstanding lawyer.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/n ... mp-w518941Cohen joined the Trump Organization in 2006, and eventually became Trump's personal lawyer, a role once occupied by Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph McCarthy's heavy-lidded hatchet man during the Red Scare who advised Trump in the 1980s. Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
Hyperbolic, surely! He can't have...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... presidencyHowever, I am unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trump’s business who doesn’t believe that there is a high likelihood of rampant criminality. In Azerbaijan, he did business with a
likely money launderer for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. In the Republic of Georgia, he partnered with a group that was
being investigated for a possible role in the largest known bank-fraud and money-laundering case in history. In Indonesia, his development partner is “
knee-deep in dirty politics”; there are [ur=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-15/why-the-trump-organization-was-cited-in-a-brazil-corruption-probel]criminal investigations[/url] of his deals in Brazil; the F.B.I. is
reportedly looking into his daughter Ivanka’s role in the Trump hotel in Vancouver, for which she worked with a Malaysian family that has admitted to financial fraud. Back home, Donald, Jr., and Ivanka were investigated for financial crimes associated with the Trump hotel in SoHo—an investigation that was
halted suspiciously. His Taj Mahal casino received what was
then the largest fine in history for money-laundering violations.
NB: Added links in the quote; errors may have happened, so best go to the source
It will take months, and a few more months, but this will play-out, and it will get ugly.
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.