Wonder how many campaign and ethics laws this one violates... Trump campaign covered some of Cohen's legal costs: report http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ign-covered-some-of-cohens-legal-costs-report
Some context: Yes. Violating Certain Campaign Finance Laws Is a Criminal Offense If the documents that Donald Jr. was emailing about are deemed valuable, soliciting them is a criminal offense. A legal expert weighs in. BY CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY | JULY 13, 2017 Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s private lawyers, has been making the rounds of radio, and network and cable TV shows trying to put out the fire set by Donald Trump Jr.’s release of emails which confirm that Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who claimed to have compromising material about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race. On The Sean Hannity Show, Mr. Sekulow makes many claims about why this meeting is not a crime. One of them seemed to be a claim (the audio is a bit garbled) that the federal campaign finance laws are not criminal laws or that violating them is not a crime. If this is what Sekulow meant, he is wrong. While most of campaign finance laws are enforced administratively (when they are bothered to be enforced) by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with civil fines, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has concurrent criminal jurisdiction over willful violations of the campaign finance laws, including the longstanding prohibitions on federal candidates receiving contributions from foreigners. This is the part of the law (52 USC § 30121), which appears to have been violated by the Trump campaign when they solicited foreign campaign contributions from members of Parliament in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world in the summer of 2016. If special counsel Robert Mueller is looking at potential crimes by the Trump campaign, then that is some low hanging fruit as MPs literally complained about it in real time. But this law could have also been violated in the Donald Trump Jr./Natalia Veselnitskaya meeting. As President Obama’s former White House counsel Robert Bauer explains at the Just Security blog: The criminal prohibition on foreign contributions to federal candidates includes the solicitation of such contributions. And the law is not limited to asking for classic contributions like cash money. He notes that the law covers “things of value” as well. Should Mr. Trump (the younger), or Kushner, or Manafort or even Veselnitskaya be charged with violating this part of the law, they will likely argue that the offer of damaging information about Secretary Clinton wasn’t “a thing of value.” But that’s not the same thing as saying 52 USC § 30121 is not a criminal statute.
More news on Cohen as posted by NewRoxFan in the "Trump Russian Connection" thread there is another layer of development on DJ Trump's fixer AT&T Inc. confirmed in a statement Tuesday that it made payments to a consulting firm set up by DJ Trump's fixer, Michael Cohen, in early 2017 after it hired the firm "to provide insights", bluntly put "pay for play", into the new Trump administration, according to Dow Jones. The payments were first revealed in a document published Tuesday by Stormy Daniels's attorney Michael Avenatti. He alleged that Essential Consultants, a shell company set up by Cohen before the election to pay Stormy Daniels, received income from several corporations, including AT&T. AT&T was seeking government approval for its acquisition of Time Warner at the time. AT&T is also positively impacted by the net neutrality regulatory change brought about under the Trump administration. Effectively, DJ Trump used his fixer to build a swamp BIGly https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...y-for-insights-into-administration-2018-05-08
Seriously though .... what the hell was AT&T thinking here? Were they really that stupid to straight up pay a shell company of the presidents “fixer” especially when they knew he was likely under investigation? There is nefarious and there is moronic. Then there is moronically nefarious. This will not be the end of it for AT&T I can guarantee you as much.
At least none of these companies are pretending they wanted cohens legal advice. Apparently everyone knows Cohen is a bad lawyer lol
When this is over, it will be the biggest conspiracy in this countries history. Trump has no morals everything for him is grifting and for sale. DD
...waitaminnit... ...corporations ARE people, am I right, boys and girls? ...you know what?....no... ...a "gang-bang" joke is just sitting right there...but somebody oughtta show some restraint....
