Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Says Russian Paid Trump Attorney Cohen $500,000
by Breitbart News
8 May 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says he has information showing that President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to Daniels.

Daniels is a porn star who claims she had a tryst with Trump.

Lawyer Michael Avenatti released no documents to support the claim and did not reveal the source of his information. But he released a memo Tuesday detailing what he said were wire transfers going into and out of the account Michael Cohen used to pay Daniels $130,000.

The memo states that Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire, and his cousin routed the money to Cohen’s company between January and August 2017.

Avenatti speculated without proof that the money may have been used to replenish Cohen’s account.



http://www.breitbart.com/news/porn-stars...attorney-cohen/


I downloaded a copy of a pdf file of the report from Avenatti's web site, but it has since gone down the black hole. I'm looking for a link elsewhere because it is way too large to upload here here.

I also wonder who is paying Avenatti and feeding him real or imagined information.

Found it:

https://www.scribd.com/document/37862859...ohen-Shell-Corp

Feds probing how Stormy lawyer got Cohen’s banking info
By Bob Fredericks
May 9, 2018 | 2:30pm | Updated

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is investigating whether confidential banking information related to President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen was leaked, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Rich Delmar, a counsel to the IG, said that in response to media reports, the office was “inquiring into allegations” that Suspicious Activity Reports on Cohen’s banking transactions were “improperly disseminated.”

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, released a summary of the information Tuesday, showing that a number of companies, including one connected to a Kremlin-linked Russian billionaire, paid Cohen’s firm more than $1 million, supposedly for assorted services.

Avenatti declined to reveal the source of his information during an interview with the DC paper.

“The source or sources of our information is our work product, and nobody’s business,” Avenatti said.


https://nypost.com/2018/05/09/feds-probi...s-banking-info/

“They can investigate all they want, but what they should be doing is releasing to the American public the three Suspicious Activity Reports filed on Michael Cohen’s account. Why are they hiding this information?”

As an aside Avenatti has issues of his own:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documen...r-Complaint.pdf

And then there's Avenatti's creative report writing. I seems it included payments to multiple Michael Cohens.

Avenatti Accuses The Wrong Michael Cohens Of Making ‘Fraudulent’ Payments
Chuck Ross
Reporter
2:14 PM 05/09/2018

Michael Avenatti, porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, released a seven-page dossier on Tuesday containing a list of payments purportedly made to Michael Cohen, the lawyer for President Donald Trump.

But there is one problem with the document: two of the allegedly “fraudulent” payments were made to men named Michael Cohen who have no affiliation with Trump.

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http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/09/avenat...l-cohen-israel/