Michael Cohen coolly admitted Monday to stealing $30,000 from the Trump Organization — and ending up with twice that much — after overstating how much he needed to be repaid for fronting funds to a poll-rigging tech company called Red Finch.
Cohen testified that he handed the CEO of the company $20,000 in cash in a brown paper bag in exchange for services that included rigging 2016 election polls in Donald Trump’s favor.
But when Trump’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg asked him during a mid-2017 meeting whether he needed to be reimbursed $50,000 for this, Cohen went along with it.
The company paid Cohen $50,000 — doubling that amount by “grossing up” to cover taxes Cohen would owe by declaring the money as income, instead of a tax-free reimbursement — and Cohen pocketed the difference.
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Blanche asking Cohen how much he’s made from his two books and two podcasts.
Cohen says, after having to clarify, $4.4 Million.
Cohen also makes money on real estate.’
Blanche also gets Cohen to admit that he makes money off of the merchandise from his store (including his…
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