File 016218
Email: AT&T Payments to Michael Cohen for Trump Administration Insights (File 016218)
Email from Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein forwarding a CNBC article about AT&T's payments to Michael Cohen's shell company Essential Consultants for insights on the Trump administration.
Summary
Richard Kahn forwards to Jeffrey Epstein a CNBC news article detailing AT&T's admission that it paid Michael Cohen's company Essential Consultants $200,000 for insights into the Trump administration in late 2017 and early 2018. The article also reports that Novartis made approximately $400,000 in payments to the same shell company, and Korea Aerospace Industries paid $150,000. The document notes that Essential Consultants was also used to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money and discusses potential connections between corporate payments and Trump administration access.
From: Richard KahnSent: 5/9/2018 1:51:01 AMTo: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for 'insights' on administrationImportance: Highhttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/att-confirms-it-paid-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-for-insights-on-administration.htmlAT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyerMichael Cohen for 'insights' onadministration11:57 AM ET Fri, 4 May 2018 01:18Getty ImagesMichael Cohen, longtime personal lawyer and confidante for President Donald Trump,arrives at the United States District Court Southern District of New York on April 26, 2018in New York City.Telecommunications giant AT&T said Tuesday night that it had paid President DonaldTrump's lawyer Michael Cohen for "insights" about the Trump administration.AT&T's admission came after a lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels claimed the company,drug giant Novartis and a Russian oligarch had all made payments to Cohen's shellcompany.HOUSE OVERSIGHT 016218Daniels lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said AT&T had made four separate payments of $50,000apiece to Cohen's company, for a total of $200,000 in late 2017 and into early 2018.That company, Essential Consultants, was created by Cohen in October 2016 and soon afterwas used to make a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels.In a prepared statement to CNBC, AT&T said Cohen's company "was one of several firmswe engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration.""They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017,"AT&T said.The company did not say how much it had paid Cohen, who was the president's personallawyer at the time.AT&T is in the midst of pursuing an $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. The U.S.Justice Department has sued to block that deal.In a report on Cohen's company, Avenatti's law firm said that Novartis in late 2017 and early2018 made four separate payments to Essential Consultants totaling nearly $400,000."Following these payments, reports surfaced that Mr. Trump took a dinner with theincoming CEO of Novartis before Mr. Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum inDavos, Switzerland in late January 2018," Avenatti's report said.That CEO, Vas Narasimhan, was joined with a group of other companies' executives at thatdinner.A Novartis spokesperson said in a statement that "any agreements with Essential Consultantswere entered before our current CEO taking office in February of this year and haveexpired.Avenatti's report says another company, Korea Aerospace Industries LTD, paid EssentialConsultants $150,000 in November 2017.Avenatti's client Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 byEssential Consultants on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.Daniels says the money was in exchange for her signing a deal that required her to remainsilent about an affair she claims to have had with Trump in 2006, shortly after the birth ofhis youngest son.The White House has denied that Trump had sex with the adult film actress.Neither the White House nor Cohen had an immediate comment on Avenatti's newallegations about payments to Cohen's company.IIWATCH: Feds saw log of Cohen's phone callsHOUSE OVERSIGHT 016219Richard KahnHBRK Associates Inc.575 Lexington Avenue, 4th FloorNew York, NY 10022HOUSE OVERSIGHT 016220