On Tuesday, Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, said investigators for his law firm had found that Novartis had paid Cohen’s shell company nearly $400,000 in four installments last year. Avenatti said that AT&T paid $200,000 to Essential Consultants in four installments of $50,000 each per month.
Drug giant Novartis revealed Wednesday that it paid President Donald Trump ’s lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for health-care policy consulting work that he proved “unable” to do.
Here is the full statement from Novartis on Wednesday: In February 2017 , shortly after the election of President Trump, Novartis entered into a one year agreement with Essential Consultants.
NBC News reported later Wednesday that a senior Novartis official said that Cohen reached out shortly after Trump’s election “promising access” to the new administration.
Novartis also said it was contacted by Mueller’s team last November, and was asked about the deal with Cohen. Novartis said it cooperated with those queries “and provided all the information requested.”. Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as possible collusion by the Trump campaign in ...