Stormy Daniels’ lawyer: No­var­tis made $400K in 'sus­pi­cious' pay­ments to Trump at­tor­ney Michael Co­hen

Stormy Daniels’ at­tor­ney Michael Ave­nat­ti has out­lined a se­ries of “sus­pi­cious fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tions” in­volv­ing close to $400,000 in pay­ments No­var­tis made to the ac­count of Es­sen­tial Con­sul­tants, which was ear­li­er used by Don­ald Trump’s per­son­al at­tor­ney Michael Co­hen to pay $130,000 to the adult film ac­tress to keep her silent about al­le­ga­tions of an af­fair with the pres­i­dent.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, No­var­tis $NVS made four wire pay­ments of $99,980 each, just un­der the $100,000 mark, which Ave­nat­ti not­ed be­gan last fall and were wrapped in ear­ly Jan­u­ary of this year, just weeks be­fore soon-to-be CEO Vas Narasimhan met with Trump in Davos. [This sto­ry has been up­dat­ed with new in­for­ma­tion here: No­var­tis now says that it paid Co­hen’s com­pa­ny $1.2M]

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