While pitching potential clients on his access to President Donald Trump last year, Michael Cohen reportedly showed clients photos of himself and Trump and bragged about his access to the President, The Washington Post reported Wednesday evening.
“I’m crushing it,” Cohen reportedly said, according to an associate who spoke to Cohen in the summer of 2017 who spoke with the Post.
Cohen would meet with potential clients like AT&T and Novartis — which reportedly ended up paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars — in his office on the 23rd floor of the Rockefeller Center in New York City last summer. Cohen would reportedly brag about how close he was with Trump and frequently mention that he was still Trump’s personal lawyer, associates told the Post. Cohen even asked people to share news articles that referred to him as Trump’s “fixer.”
It was revealed on Tuesday that several companies paid Cohen’s consulting firm in order to gain insight into the Trump administration, including the American affiliate of a company owned by a Russian oligarch who attended Trump’s inauguration.
Read the Post’s full story here.
Sounds like some of these companies deserved to be taken to the cleaners by this con man. Real smart businesspeople. Yeah, right.
Is this viable as an SEC investigation?
Anyone have a full list of these fools that wasted their money? Could a boycott be in order?
Sometimes you’re the crusher, sometimes you’re the crushee.
Times are changing, Mikey …
Are we sure that EC was the only shell company that Cohen was using? Even a half-decent skeevy lawyer would be expected to have multiple shell businesses for these kinds of payments. We only know about EC because of the Clifford lawsuit, remember.
‘I’m crushing it! That’s me and the boss deep sea fishing. Biggest tuna ever caught! Get out your checkbooks gentlemen. And reach deep!!’
Oh, and check out my limo too! Yes, that is real Corinthian leather. Go ahead, feel it!