CNBC reported Wednesday on a $50,000 expense reported by Michael Cohen in January 2017 to the Trump Organization “buried in legal documents released Tuesday”. Cohen presented the expense to Trump Organization executives as “a handwritten sum at the top” of another document, CNBC reported. The Trump Organization would later say the expense was “payment for tech services,” but, CNBC noted, prosecutors say it “was in fact related to work Cohen had solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.” Read more here.
CNBC: Prosecutors Say Cohen Spent $50k On Tech ‘In Connection With’ Campaign
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August 22, 2018 6:29 p.m.
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That’s Papadopoulos’s bar tab. Allegedly.
In this conspiracy, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. Ooga, ooga, dive, dive!!
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1032269004382060545
Drip drip
!!! Dodging and weaving. Wow.
You know, it’s not that the Russkies wanted the money. What they wanted was a Trump guy going to Europe with a bag of money and paying for stolen e-mails and phony-ass social media stuff. They wanted the elements of an illegal conspiracy. They wanted the kompromat. And Trump et al. were dumb enough to give it to them.