Though often described as Trump’s “personal attorney,” he does little actual legal work.
From (approximately) 2007 to 2017 he was EVP at the Trump Organization.
Handled the Stormy Daniels matter for Trump, drafting a non-disclosure agreement and paying her $130,000. Claims he used his own funds without Trump’s knowledge.
In April 2018 his office and home were raided by the FBI, under the auspices of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Matters under investigation reportedly include bank fraud, wire fraud and violations of campaign finance law.
The Steele Dossier alleges that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in 2016 with the objective of paying those who had hacked the DNC and to “cover up all traces of the hacking operation”. Cohen has denied ever visiting Prague.
Operates a shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, which he used, among other things, to make a $130,000 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. Transactions totaling at least $4.4 million flowed through the LLC from shortly after Donald Trump was elected president to January 2918. Among the transactions were payments in 2017 of about $500,000 from Columbus Nova, an investment firm in New York whose biggest client is a company controlled by the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
In late January 2017, Cohen met with Ukrainian opposition politician Andrey Artemenko and Felix Sater at the Loews Regency in Manhattan to discuss a plan to lift sanctions against Russia. Artemenko is now under investigation for treason by the Ukrainian government because of the meeting.
Is a childhood friend of Felix Sater, a real-estate developer and Russian mob underboss now turned informant.
Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, owned the El Caribe social club, which served as the headquarters for the Russian mafia in the US in the 1970’s through 1990’s under bosses Evsie Agron and Marat Balagula. According to Levine, Cohen also owned a stake in the club until Donald Trump was elected.
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