"Over the last two years, a shell company set up by the president’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, received more than $1 million dollars from a Russian oligarch and from several multi-national corporations, according to documents obtained by multiple news outlets. The limited liability company, called Essential Consultants, was initially created shortly before the 2016 election, and was used to funnel a $130,000 payment from Cohen to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels . . . "
"On Tuesday, Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, revealed that a bank account controlled by Essential Consultants had also received payments from Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg,
who is the subject of U.S. sanctions; AT&T, which is currently
engaged in an anti-trust lawsuit with the Department of Justice;
Novartis, whose C.E.O. met with Trump in January; and a Korean aerospace
company that is part of a multi-billion-dollar bid to provide jets to
the U.S. Air Force."
It looks a LOT like influence peddling, or what's called "pay for play," or what the law calls "bribery."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/michael-cohen-michael-avenatti-russian-oligarch-stormy-daniels-payment
