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May 11, 2018

AT&T Paid Trump's Lawyer $600K to Advise on Time Warner Merger
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The Washington Post reports that President Trump's personal lawyer and
fixer Michael Cohen's company won a $600,000 contract just days after
Trump's inauguration to advise the telecom giant AT&T over its planned
merger with Time Warner. This follows reports that Cohen used the
promise of White House access as he brought in a total of $4.4 million
in payments to his shell company, Essential Consultants LLC-the same
company that Cohen used to pay hush money to the adult film star Stormy
Daniels-also known as Stephanie Clifford-who says she had an affair with
Donald Trump in 2006.


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