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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