INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Enlarge / Michael Cohen, longtime personal lawyer and confidant for President Donald Trump, arrives at the United States District Court
Southern District of New York on April 26, 2018 in New York City
(credit: Getty Images | Spencer Platt )
Congressional Democrats are asking US regulators for information on whether ATT payments to
President Trump's personal lawyer were made in order to influence the government's review of ATT's merger with Time Warner Inc.
ATT paid
$600,000 to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's shell company, Essential Consultants, "the same vehicle he used in October 2016 to direct $130,000
to the adult-film actress known professionally as Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr
Trump in 2006," The Wall Street Journal wrote yesterday.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep
David Cicilline (D-R.I.) yesterday asked the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for answers.
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