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More Cohen stuff from tonight

artappraiser — Thu, 17 May 2018 03:04:12 +0000

In reply to Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records

More Cohen stuff from tonight's front pages

From WaPo:

In new disclosure, Trump reports apparent payment through Cohen to Stormy Daniels

The payment by Michael Cohen, the president’s personal attorney, to the porn star was made in the last weeks before the 2016 presidential election, meant to ensure Daniels would not speak about the alleged affair publicly.

By David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell

From NYTimes:

Filing Shows Trump Paid Cohen, Who Paid Stormy Daniels

By STEVE EDER, ERIC LIPTON and BEN PROTESS 7:02 PM ET

Mr. Trump’s financial disclosure revealed for the first time that he paid more than $100,000 to his personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, as reimbursement for payments to a “third-party.”

He's obviously right that no

barefooted — Thu, 17 May 2018 02:33:20 +0000

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He's obviously right that no matter what happened to the SARS reports in the database, the original reasons for them/details are still cataloged by the banks. Their files are far more thorough - and likely already in the hands of investigators. If they (reports) disappeared nefariously ... well, that'll be fun to find out!

I’ve been thinking about this

artappraiser — Thu, 17 May 2018 02:13:06 +0000

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I’ve been thinking about this New Yorker story on SARs missing from a FINCEN database and I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade here, but color me at least a little bit skeptical. Here’s why. /1/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 17, 2018

CLICK ON THE DATE STAMP to see all 8 tweets making up his thread on it.

The whistleblower who leaked

artappraiser — Thu, 17 May 2018 02:12:26 +0000

In reply to Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records

This is a remarkable story. I've never heard of SARs reports going missing. Some plausible explanations are spelled out in the story, but these are clearly rare. And that a US official was concerned enough to leak, and then admit to leaking to draw attention to this, says a lot.
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) May 16, 2018

Two amazing things about this @RonanFarrow story: 1) an apparent law enforcement official came forward as the source of the leak of Cohen's financial records 2) source apparently was motivated by files missing from the Treasury database. https://t.co/njD1kdP4ge
— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) May 16, 2018

The whistleblower who leaked

artappraiser — Thu, 17 May 2018 01:49:24 +0000

In reply to Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records

The whistleblower who leaked Michael Cohen’s financial records is stepping forward to say why: records of bigger, potentially more sensitive, swaths of suspicious transactions appeared to be missing from a government database. My @newyorker investigation: https://t.co/5nR2CHNOUc
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) May 16, 2018