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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