FBI Probing Cohen Contract With South Korean Aerospace Company

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 11: Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Loews Regency Hotel, May 11, 2018 in New York City. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said this week that it was... NEW YORK, NY - MAY 11: Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Loews Regency Hotel, May 11, 2018 in New York City. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said this week that it was a mistake to hire Cohen as a consultant it was revealed they paid him $600,000 last year. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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A man who served as a translator for Michael Cohen while he brokered a deal with Korean Aerospace Industries was recently interviewed by the FBI, signaling federal investigators are interested in the the $150,000 payment Cohen received from the company, according to the Washington Post.

The translator, Mark Ko, who lives in California, told the Post that he had been interviewed by FBI agents about the contract “a few weeks ago,” but would not provide details about the interviews. Ko told the Post that he didn’t know if the agents were members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

Korean Aerospace Industries is one of several companies — like AT&T and drug company Novartis — that’s been questioned by federal authorities over its payments to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney after the 2016 election. AT&T and Novartis have both confirmed they went into business with Cohen, through his shadow consulting company Essential Consultants, because Cohen sold them access to Trump and his policy makers.

Novartis paid Cohen $1.2 million over the course of a year and AT&T spent $600,000 to work with Cohen. Both companies have expressed regret for the decision and have ousted top executives over the matter.

The South Korean aerospace company, on the other hand, has defended its contract with Cohen, saying it didn’t know about Cohen’s relationship with Trump and went into business with him to get legal advice on U.S. accounting procedures.

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  1. The South Korean aerospace company, on the other hand, has defended its contract with Cohen, saying it didn’t know about Cohen’s relationship with Trump and went into business with him to get legal advice on U.S. accounting procedures.

    Seems legit. I had my accountant handle my last divorce.
  2. I cannot believe that this guy hasn’t been arrested yet.

    I hope it is because he’s singing like a bird to the FBI.

  3. Of course, where the money went after Cohen/Essential LLC/and his other LLCs received it is the $10,000,000 question.

    And Mueller’s team is very good at following the money.

  4. The two missing SARS reports are an interesting development. I’m dubious there is some nefarious plot afoot though, unlike Maddow and others. Their existence is a known fact, and for the administration to have had them spirited away and sucked down some memory hole would be a level of idiocy even I think Trump is incapable of. Someone has them, for some legitimate reason. Maybe it’s Mueller, maybe not. But if he demands them a refusal would kick a snowball down the hill that wiped out the entire ski lodge and everyone in it.

  5. OT,
    DJT claims the Obama FBI had a spy in his campaign.

    Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate

    Doesn’t realize the courts have said they’re legal.

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