The good news for AT&T is Cohen had 16 cell phones.
“Hiring” – LOL. Good grief, whom do these corrupt idiots think they’re fooling?
Who knew that G.O.B. Bluth was CEO of AT&T?
It became a “big mistake” when it became public this week not 6 months ago when we met with Mueller. I guess the CEO didn’t know about that meeting or what it was about.
Interesting.
Now hold on a moment - why would AT&T not hire a nobody real estate lawyer to advise them on an $85 billion acquisition?
Getting caught 6 months after robbing a bank is often considered a “big mistake” by the perp.
Precisely who is believing that they have a “vetting process”?
When confronted with the prospect of outright corruption, businesses jumped in with both feet in the hopes of creating stability from a fundamentally unstable government headed by a moron. It’s happened before (check out Chapter 5 of “The Coming of the Third Reich”). AT&T looks as stupidly corrupt as Novartis as any other business that even bothered to visit and meet with the unfit, unqualified racist birther scumbag (Apple, Microsoft) to size up how much they could get away with. Only for AT&T and Novartis did it seem that Michael Cohen’s amateurishness rubbed off on them.
I expect no one to leave AT&T over this (or use it as an excuse) but it will be interesting to see if there’s the slightest sting to them on the part of their customers.
Any other Fortune 500 corporations want to step forward now while the steppin’ is good?
Only 3 companies bribed Cohen? If true, Cohen should be embarrassed as to how incompetent he was.
I love executive-land, where declaring “I take full responsibility for X” means that X is all fixed and taken care of, water under the bridge, let’s all move on.
An incantation.
The CEO takes full responsibility, which is why someone else is being forcibly retired. If he donated $10M of his personal money to Pro Publica or somewhere similar, I might begin to believe him.
Right. And although everything they did “was done according to the law and entirely legitimate,” nevertheless for the foreseeable future, the entire E&LA group is going to report to ATT’s General Counsel.
Uh huh.
AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake
I would like to see his list of reasons why AT&T chose to “hire” Cohen and compare it to his list of reasons why he now thinks it was a mistake.
They were merely exercising their corporate freedom of speech rights as enunciated in Citizens United.
Way OT but…
Chomsky’s right. The Republican Party of the US is the most dangerous organization on Earth.
First answer - Cohen is Trump’s butthole buddy.
Second answer - We got exposed publicly.
For the lawyers here:
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if Cohen said he was going to lobby, does he have to register as a (domestic) lobbyist?
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doesn’t ATT and other corporations hiring any lobbyist have to insist that they see verifying paperwork that they are registered?
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if not, and hired anyway, what is the penalty?
“AT&T’s head lobbyist, Bob Quinn, who oversaw the hiring of Cohen, is retiring, according to the memo.”
Having any association with Trump or anyone in his orbit: ***Touching the Third Rail of Life***.More like:
From the article:
In the same memo, Stephenson announced that the company’s senior executive vice president of the External and Legislative Affairs group would be retiring."
I guess he just wanted to spend more time with his family…
There are multiple investigative angles with Cohen and his multi-use and multi-directional slush funds.
Regarding the payments from corporations, it’s quite possible the legal issue here is fraud, where Cohen represented to these corps that he could do something for them and never delivered. Trump may not be necessarily involved, but given how frequently Trump talks to Cohen, I find this hard to believe. I would really like to see the SDNY subpoena the phone/text logs of Trump’s cell phone and the WH. Do calls between Trump and Cohen match up to the dates of conversations Cohen had with ATT/Novartis etc? Is there email correspondence? Of course, the big issue is, as Avenatti keeps emphasizing, the money flows. Where did it all go? Did any of it end up in Trump related accounts?
I still think the best case against Cohen comes from the Russian side of this. There is his role in election violations, tax evasion, bank fraud to hide and disguise the intent and purpose of those payments.