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发帖数: 897 | 1 The Novartis headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis discloses it
paid $1.2M to Michael Cohen firm
1 Hour Ago | 01:58
Drug giant Novartis acknowledged Wednesday it paid President Donald Trump's
lawyer Michael Cohen more than $1 million for health-care policy consulting
work that he actually ended up being "unable" to do.
The company also said it has been questioned by special counsel Robert
Mueller's team about the payments to Cohen.
Novartis said it signed a one-year contract with Cohen's shell company,
Essential Consultants, for $100,000 per month in February 2017, shortly
after Trump was inaugurated as president.
Novartis said it believed Cohen "could advise the company as to how the
Trump administration might approach certain U.S. health-care policy matters,
including the Affordable Care Act."
But just a month after signing the deal, Novartis executives had their first
meeting with Cohen, and afterward "determined that Michael Cohen and
Essentials Consultants would be unable to provide the services that Novartis
had anticipated."
But Novartis kept paying Cohen.
"As the contract, unfortunately, could only be terminated for cause,
payments continued to be made until the contract expired by its own terms in
February 2018," Novartis said.
That means that Cohen was paid up to $1.2 million for his work. Novartis did
not immediately disclose the total amount paid.
On Tuesday, Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, said
investigators for his law firm had found that Novartis had paid Cohen's
shell company nearly $400,000 in four installments last year.
Avenatti said that AT&T paid $200,000 to Essential Consultants in four
installments of $50,000 each per month. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that
a source had said Cohen was actually paid more than that because Essential
Consultants had a year-long contract with AT&T.
If Cohen was paid for the full year by AT&T at a rate of $50,000 per month,
he would have received $600,000.
AT&T on Wednesday declined to reveal when asked by CNBC how much it had
actually paid Cohen under the contract, which it said the company entered
into because it wanted "insights" on the Trump administration.
Essential Consultants was created in October 2016, on the eve of the
presidential election. Shortly after its creation, Essential Consultants was
used to pay Daniels $130,000, Cohen has admitted.
Daniels said the money was in exchange for her agreement to not talk to
others about a 2006 affair she claims to have had with Trump. The White
House has denied the president had sex with the adult film actress.
Novartis also said it was contacted by Mueller's team last November, and was
asked about the deal with Cohen. Novartis said it cooperated with those
queries "and provided all the information requested."
Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
election, as well as possible collusion by the Trump campaign in that
interference.
Cohen is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York for
issues related to his business dealings. The payment to Daniels is among
the areas being eyed by investigators in that probe. | j*********r
发帖数: 24733 | 2 梨树加油，你行的。。。
发信人: peartree (peartree), 信区: USANews
标 题: Clinton 52%, Trump 47% (Politico/Morning Consult 10/27-10/30)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Nov 3 12:49:40 2016, 美东)
https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/
MCModeStudyFinalToplines.pdf
发信人: peartree (peartree), 信区: USANews
标 题: Clinton 44%, Trump 40% (NBC News/Wall Street)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 6 09:39:09 2016, 美东)
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/final-nbc-wsj-poll-clinton-holds-four-point-national-lead-n678611
发信人: peartree (peartree), 信区: USANews
标 题: Clinton 45%, Trump 42% (Politico/Morning Consult 11/4-11/5)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 6 09:39:51 2016, 美东)
https://morningconsult.com/2016/11/06/final-2016-poll-morning-consult/
发信人: peartree (peartree), 信区: USANews
标 题: L.A. Times Predicts Hillary 352 EVs
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 6 21:48:10 2016, 美东)
despite their own tracking poll showing Trump +5
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-here-s-our-final-electoral-map-of-the-1478473458-htmlstory.html
发信人: peartree (peartree), 信区: USANews
标 题: Clinton 48%, Trump 44% (FOX News 11/3-11/6)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 7 11:03:07 2016, 美东)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/07/fox-news-poll-results-11716.html |
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