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# Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Says Trump's Attorney Michael Cohen Received $500,000 From a Russian Billionaire

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_Published 2018-05-09. Stormy Daniels’ lawyer said Tuesday he has information showing that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire_


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## Transcript

There as about a half a million dollars with the payments that took place between January of 2017. So this is after the election that occurred in November 2016. And then up through approximately August of 2017. So about an eight- month time period of payments totalling approximately half a million dollars. We have yet to hear an explanation from Michael Cohen as to why the personal attorney to the President of the United States who at the time, at least for a portion of that time, was employed by the Trump organization would be accepting payments from a Russian oligarch to the tune of a half million dollars.

There's no question that this is accurate. It took a lot of work, we've been working on this for some time. We've been in this case for a number of months, we've been spending a lot of time on the case. We've got a whole team of individuals that are working on the case back in California and we're highly confident in the information we released. And look, what's the explanation for the half a million dollars worth of payments? Michael Cohen should not have been accepting money. especially under the circumstances at this time from anyone with Russian ties

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