{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='AP reporter on Stormy Daniels lawyer\u0026#39;s claim that Russian money tied to Trump' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d798d8eafeecae20d2c2' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d798d8eafeecae20d2c2' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nAP reporter on Stormy Daniels lawyer\u0026#39;s claim that Russian money tied to Trump\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eStormy Daniels' lawyer says he has information showing that President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney received $500,000 from a company associated with a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to the porn star...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eStormy Daniels' lawyer says he has information showing that President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney received $500,000 from a company associated with a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to the porn star who claims a long-ago affair with Trump.\u003cbr/\u003e              Lawyer Michael Avenatti also said hundreds of thousands of dollars streamed into Trump attorney Michael Cohen's account from companies, including pharmaceutical giant Novartis, AT\u0026amp;T and Korea Aerospace, with U.S. government business interests. Those three companies have confirmed the connection.\u003cbr/\u003e              Avenatti isn't disclosing the source of his information or releasing documentation. But in a seven-page memo, Avenatti details what he says were wire transfers into and out of the account Cohen used to pay Daniels $130,000 in October 2016 to stay silent about her alleged tryst with Trump in 2006. He denies having an affair with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.\u003cbr/\u003e              Financial documents reviewed Tuesday by The Associated Press appeared to back up Avenatti's report.\u003cbr/\u003e              The memo says Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire, and his cousin \"routed\" eight payments totaling approximately $500,000 to Cohen's company, Essential Consultants, between January and August 2017. The reason for the payments was not immediately known.\u003cbr/\u003e              Avenatti's memo says the deposits into the account controlled by Cohen were made by Columbus Nova, an American investment company headed by Vekselberg's cousin, Andrew Intrater, and affiliated with the Renova Group, which Vekselberg controls.\u003cbr/\u003e              Andrey Shtorkh, a spokesman for Vekselberg and the Renova Group, said in a statement that \"neither Victor Vekselberg nor Renova has ever had any contractual relationship\" with Cohen or Essential Consultants.\u003cbr/\u003e              He said questions about a relationship between Columbus Nova and Cohen would have to be answered by Intrater \"because Columbus Nova is a company owned and managed by him.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Columbus Nova's lawyer, Richard Owens, said in a statement the company is \"solely owned and controlled by Americans.\" He said that after Trump's inauguration in January 2017, the company hired Cohen as a business consultant \"regarding potential sources of capital and potential investments in real estate and other ventures,\" but that it had nothing to do with Vekselberg.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cohen and his lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Cohen is under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, but hasn't been charged.\u003cbr/\u003e              At the time of the payments, there was an FBI counterintelligence investigation, which special counsel Robert Mueller took over last May, into Russian election interference and any possible coordination with Trump associates.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              New Orleans - 6 May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e              1. STILL: Stormy Daniels visits a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Stormy Daniels' attorney kind of dropped a little bit of a bombshell on Twitter where he released a document that included what he said were payments going in and out of a shell company that Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen used.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 13 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              3. STILL: Michael Avenatti, left, attorney and spokesperson for adult film actress Stormy Daniels speaks during a press conference at Federal court\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 16 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              4. STILL: Adult film actress Stormy Daniels speaks outside federal court\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So what's new out of what the information that he posted last night is that there were additional payments going through this shell company that was used to pay Stormy Daniels and what he's highlighting about these payments is that there were some bluechip companies -- AT\u0026amp;T, a pharmaceutical company -- that were paying payments to Michael Cohen that they have since confirmed that they were looking to get his read on the administration.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington -19 September 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              6. STILL: Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, arrives on Capitol Hill \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 5 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              7. STILL: Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels, is interviewed on the floor of the NYSE\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"What they're saying is - we weren't paying him to be a lobbyist, we weren't paying Michael Cohen to actually go and advocate for us - with the administration- which would be something that he would have to register with the government for. Instead what they're saying is that we were paying him to get his views of the administration and to consult on, you know, getting insight into the President.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: New York - 24 October 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              9. STILL: AT\u0026amp;T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Palm Beach, Florida - 17 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              10. STILL: President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So another payment that Avenatti pointed out in this document is five hundred thousand dollars that came in a series of payments paid by a company here in the United States. Now this company is connected to a Russian oligarch and Avenatii was trying to point to, or what he has said is that, the account these payments came in after the Stormy Daniels payment and he has suggested that these were payments that were replenishing this 130,000 dollars that went out to her as part of a hush money scheme.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 26 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              12. STILL: Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels' attorney, left, watches as Michael Cohen, center, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, leaves federal court in New York, Thursday, April 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York- 16 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              13. STILL: Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, center, leaves federal court following a hearing\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Now the company has now come back and said that this oligarch Viktor Vekselberg was not involved in this transaction at all and that he had nothing to do with this and that these were all part of something that this company, this American subsidiary, was trying to do similar to what AT\u0026amp;T and the other companies were doing- paying Michael Cohen for his views on the administration and getting insight into Trump.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Key West, Florida - 19 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              15. STILL: President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before his departure from Naval Air Station Key West in Key West, Fla\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 16 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              16. STILL: Adult film actress Stormy Daniels speaks to members of the media after a hearing at federal court \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, Associated Press:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So obviously the biggest question here is, you know, were any laws broken. And so there are some allegations in there and we know that Michael Cohen is under investigation for bank fraud and potential campaign finance violations - it's being handled by a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. But these payments that really came out last night - these are things that you know he kind of looks bad or you know, there's that there's some ethical questions that might be raised by it - but there's nothing illegal per se that came out last night that we saw. \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE - Los Angeles - 11 February 2007\u003cbr/\u003e              18. STILL: Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 9 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              19. 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