emptywheel

what about accounting advice, as the Koreans enlisted him for, and claimed they did not know of his connection to Trump!

The only healthcare advice that goes with @MichaelCohen212 is that, if you want to remain in good legal health, don't engage his services.

They have since admitted paying $1.2 million. For one meeting.

Seems right: My advice, give me lot's of money and I will tell my buddy DJT to make good things happen for you..... $$$$$$$

There has to be some kind of work product to back up this claim of "consulting"--a report, memos, dossier, something. Otherwise it's just bribery or a slush fund.

Korea Air initially said it was for "accounting" advice which is also borderline criminally ridiculous.

The "advice," of course, was: what do we need to do to get our healthcare interests achieved?

No, seems totally legit. I am an armchair aviator.

It's a clear pattern of pay to play, and the whole team is doing it too.. What's ludicrous is it's brazenness. Everyone knows it, but the law can't stop it. Reinforcing that abandoning guilt, remorse, and self-awareness frees you from things as pesky as ethics and laws

Yea right they’re all a bunch of lying crooks

You should buy ATT and Novartis stock and then complain as a shareholder. But you know full well that paying peanuts for access is how this rotten town works

LOL. It's sorta like taking healthcare advice from the plumber

Why is anyone taking that statement for face value and discussing it as such? It's a smoke screen for access to the President. What is Novartis going to do, put out a statement saying 'yes we were told to give Michael Cohen this amount of money to guarantee face time with Trump?'