Michael Cohen reportedly secured a $10 million deal to advance a nuclear project
Source: CNBC
Just days before federal agents raided Michael Cohen's home and office, Donald Trump's then-personal lawyer secured a $10 million agreement with a top donor, The Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter.
The payment was conditional on Cohen securing funding for reactors at the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama, sources told the Journal. That included a $5 billion loan from the federal government, the Journal reported.
Sources told the Journal that real-estate developer Franklin Haney also agreed to pay Cohen a monthly retainer. It reported that Haney's company still has a loan application pending at the Energy Department.
The newspaper said, however, it was not able to determine how much Haney ultimately paid Cohen, if at all. But sources told the Journal that Cohen's agreed success fee would be among the largest of his known consulting deals.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/trump-donor-agreed-to-pay-michael-cohen-10-million-in-consulting-deal.html
cloudbase
(5,520 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Wonder who else colluded in that scheme.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)I don't see how Cohen could have swung the huge deals involving influencing government policies and actions that would favor his clients unless he was totally BSing the clients or Trump was in on the schemes and going to take a cut. If Trump didn't know, that may be why he has turned on Cohen.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Imagine the money riding on that deal for the few lucky players.
Trump was prob ready to shove the deal thru & whoo eee! They're all trillionaires!
Curious to find out who was at the receiving end of that deal.
Tillerson maybe?? Just a guess but I'm betting there's some foreign money in it somewhere.
Just a wild guess,, however.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)bluestarone
(16,976 posts)All the FUCKING FRIENDS TO BORROW FROM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Will it go to us the taxpayers soon? Hit a few more of these Trump associates,please.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)There would be no stopping them. Remember, impeachment doesn't require anything more than the vote of the House. They don't actually have to prove anything to impeach someone.
So they'd have impeached her by now.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Otherwise, Republicans would have been impeaching Obama for the tan suit.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)You know they would say she was involved in it and it was some sort of payoff and they'd impeach.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)of the House."
bitterross
(4,066 posts)As the old saying goes, a good prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.
They'd impeach with little more than suggestion.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)no, it can't be legally impeached.
I worry that oversimplification and outright misunderstanding of laws will create expectations that our Democratic leaders are not doing "even the simplest of things like indicting."
Again... if you could indict a ham sandwich for impeachment, Obama would have been indicted by a GOP prosecutor on day one.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)One of the most do nothing,tear down gang we have ever had.