No­var­tis now says that it paid Trump's at­tor­ney $1.2M — and then throws ex-CEO Joe Jimenez un­der the bus

BioReg­num — The view from John Car­roll

With No­var­tis stuck square­ly in the mid­dle of a me­dia fren­zy cen­tered on pay­ments it made to a shell com­pa­ny con­trolled by Michael Co­hen, the per­son­al at­tor­ney for Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, the phar­ma gi­ant of­fered a few more de­tails Wednes­day about their re­la­tion­ship. It starts with an ad­mis­sion that No­var­tis ac­tu­al­ly paid Co­hen more than a mil­lion dol­lars, and it was fol­lowed by an ex­tra­or­di­nary pri­vate ad­mis­sion that then CEO Joe Jimenez was sold on the no­tion that Co­hen could pri­vate ac­cess to the ad­min­is­tra­tion.

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