AT&T payment to administration

[Jtalk4456]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/9/17336614/net-neutrality-merger-att-time-warner-michael-cohen-trump

So we've all heard by now that trumps lawyer set up a llc for the hush money to the porn star. And then Rudy guiliani went on a leak streak on the news, contradicting every statement trump has made about this including that he even knew about it, and going so far as to insinuate there were other payments through the company. 

While the biggest political one we found out involved Russians, go figure, perhaps a more relevant one to this forum includes AT&T. 

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apparently paid for consulting with AT&T, Novartis, Columbus Nova, and Korea Aerospace Industries after the president took office.

Oh goodie

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in a press conference today that the payments “may well have been used to influence the president of the United States, using Michael Cohen and his shell company as a conduit.”

Some have suggested a connection between the AT&T payment and the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality in December 2017. 

 

This could cause a reopening of the net Neutrality discussion

I'll post a few more quotes but I'm on mobile so copy and paste from a different tab is a pain

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  • Michael Avenatti (the lawyer for Stephanie Cliffords, also known as Stormy Daniels) has alleged in a new document that AT&T paid Michael Cohen $200,000 through Essential Consultants from October 2017 to January 2018.
  • AT&T has confirmed the payments happened.
  • In fact, AT&T might have paid up to $600,000. We don’t yet have a total.
  • AT&T told the Washington Post that Essential Consultants was contracted “to provide insights into understanding the new administration.”

   

  Try to be civil and not political guys. 

[Taf the Ghost]

This isn't tech news.

[Vanderburg]

1 hour ago, Jtalk4456 said:

And then Rudy guiliani went on a leak streak on the news, contradicting every statement trump has made about this including that he even knew about it, and going so far as to insinuate there were other payments through the company. 

No. Maybe that's what you inferred if you heard a 4 second sound bite out of context and then just ran with it, but that seems to be pretty par for this forum's users. But no, let's not be political or anything... Waiting for this to get locked.

[asus killer]

44 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

This isn't tech news.

besides that it's about "rumors", "may well have been", "suggested" and "Even if you go full corkboard conspiracy, it’s hard to connect the dots into something damning."

 

In my days news were not like this. Investigate 1st for god sake.

[Taf the Ghost]

6 minutes ago, asus killer said:

besides that it's about "rumors", "may well have been", "suggested" and "Even if you go full corkboard conspiracy, it’s hard to connect the dots into something damning."

 

In my days news were not like this. Investigate 1st for god sake.

Avenatti owes at least 5 million in back taxes, someone is illegally searching & leaking the Treasury Department's reporting database (and giving Avenatti information) and at least 4 "Michael Cohen" have been caught up in the illegal leaks. So much FUD is being "leaked" that most of it should just be outright rejected until far later.

[colonel_mortis]

Although it involves a tech company, this topic is clearly political in nature. As such, it is being locked.