AT&T Paid Cohen Up To $600,000 For "Insight" On Time Warner Merger

When Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti first leaked wire transfer records showing that corporations including AT&T, Novartis, Korea Aerospace and Viktor Vekselberg's Columbus Nova had paid hundreds of thousands in "consultant" fees to Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen (which, it turns out, while frowned upon are perfectly legal in the Washington swamp, just as it is legal to "donate" millions to a Clinton charity to buy influence), we congratulated Cohen for having the sheer temerity to hustlemajor corporations into believing he knew something he did not (as all his brand new clients would soon find out).