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amerikat

(4,909 posts)
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:08 PM May 2018

AVENATTI & ASSOCIATES, APC - PROJECT SUNLIGHT

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Avenati twitter post.

AVENATTI & ASSOCIATES, APC

-

PROJECT SUNLIGHT

Page

3

The Payment to Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) and Subsequent Reimbursement



On October 27, 2016 Mr. Cohen caused a wire of $130,000 from Essential Consultants’

account at First Re

public Bank to be sent to an Attorney

-

Client Trust Account

of Keith M.

Davidson & Associates at City National Bank located in California. The wire originated

from First Republic Bank’s operations located in California.

Note: t

his fact may provide

the Sta

te of California with jurisdicti

on over possible state criminal

charges associated

with this payment.



Mr. Cohen has previously claimed that the source of funds from the $130,000 payment

was a home equity line of credit advance conducted on October 26, 201

6. This has yet

to be confirmed.

However, as detailed below, within approximately 75 days of the

payment to Ms. Clifford, Mr. Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian Oligarch with close ties to

Russian President Vladimir Putin, caused substantial funds to be deposi

ted into the bank

account from which

Mr. Cohen made the payment

. It appears that these funds may

have replenished the account following the payment to Ms. Clifford.

Additional Possible Fraudulent and Illegal Financial Transactions



From October 2016 thro

ugh January 2018, Mr. Cohen used his First Republic account to

engage in suspicious financial transactions totaling $4,425,033.46.



Chief among these suspicious financial transactions are approximately $500,000 in

payments received from Mr. Viktor Vekselber

g, a Russian Oligarch with an estimated

net worth of nearly $13 Billion. Mr. Vekselberg and his cousin Mr. Andrew Intrater

routed eight payments to Mr. Cohen through a company named Columbus Nova LLC

(“Columbus”) beginning in January 2017 and continuing

u

ntil at least August

2017.



Columbus Nova is a private equity firm founded in 2000 with over $2 billion in assets.

Mr. Intrater is the CEO of Columbus Nova.

Columbus Nova

is

the U.S. investment

vehicle for Renova Group, a multi

-

national

company controlled by Mr. Vekselberg

.

Renova group

hold

s

investments in various interests, including mining, oil, and

telecommunications.



Mr. Cohen inexplicably accepted these payments while he was the personal attorney to

the President and holding himself out at times as employed by the Trump Organization

(with few other clients). This was

occurring

at the same time significant questions were

being raised relating to (a) the involvement of Russia and Vladimir Putin in the 2016

Presidential Election and (b) the extent of the relationship between Mr. Putin and Mr.

Trump

Read more: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summary.pdf?dl=0



WOW! Mr. Avenatti has been busy.
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AVENATTI & ASSOCIATES, APC - PROJECT SUNLIGHT (Original Post) amerikat May 2018 OP
Thank youuuu!! Yeah BABY!!! Leghorn21 May 2018 #1
Mr. Clean. sandensea May 2018 #2
He is in deep shit. No wonder Avenatti says he will flip. Glimmer of Hope May 2018 #3
This particular oligarch IS important! BigmanPigman May 2018 #4
Ari and panel discussing now.n/t monmouth4 May 2018 #5
K&R Scurrilous May 2018 #6
But -- but -- but -- the House Committee said there's nothing to see here! byronius May 2018 #7
Oh these guys wish they had used Bitcoin! bucolic_frolic May 2018 #8
Just as an aside: This news completely wipes out Melania's break out day. She is going to be grantcart May 2018 #9
IMPEACH THAT CONSPIRING TRAITOR TODAY! ffr May 2018 #10
Locking - Dropbox is not a reliable news source suitable for LBN (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2018 #11

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
1. Thank youuuu!! Yeah BABY!!!
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:09 PM
May 2018


Man, I JUST heard about this Intrater two days ago at most from a citizen researcher WOW

sandensea

(21,624 posts)
2. Mr. Clean.
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:11 PM
May 2018

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)
3. He is in deep shit. No wonder Avenatti says he will flip.
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:14 PM
May 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
4. This particular oligarch IS important!
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:14 PM
May 2018

Viktor Vekselberg:
who attended that Moscow dinner in 2015 with Flynn, Stein, Putin etc, was at LOSER45’s inauguration and also had electronics seized by FBI briefly at (NYC?) airport a month or so ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/viktor-vekselberg-mueller-investigation.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2055323

monmouth4

(9,694 posts)
5. Ari and panel discussing now.n/t
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:16 PM
May 2018

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
6. K&R
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:16 PM
May 2018

byronius

(7,394 posts)
7. But -- but -- but -- the House Committee said there's nothing to see here!
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:16 PM
May 2018

The House Committee was therefore run by Russians, then.

I swear to god, paybacks. Paybacks.

bucolic_frolic

(43,134 posts)
8. Oh these guys wish they had used Bitcoin!
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:19 PM
May 2018

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
9. Just as an aside: This news completely wipes out Melania's break out day. She is going to be
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:20 PM
May 2018

a pissed off woman.

Remember

ffr

(22,669 posts)
10. IMPEACH THAT CONSPIRING TRAITOR TODAY!
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:27 PM
May 2018

Get it done you republicon cowards! 45 is a traitor to the United States.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,307 posts)
11. Locking - Dropbox is not a reliable news source suitable for LBN (nt)
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:31 PM
May 2018
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