Trump’s Attorney Reportedly Used Private LLC and Pseudonyms To Pay Off Stormy Daniels
Another day, another report detailing the one-time sexual relationship that allegedly occurred between Donald Trump and adult film star Stormy Daniels and the lengths Team Trump went to at hiding it.
Days after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump attorney Michael Cohen arranged for a $130,000 payment to Daniels — real name Stephanie Clifford — to buy her silence over the 2006 affair prior to the 2016 election, the WSJ is out with another story related to the payoff.
According to the Journal, Cohen created a private company in Deleware in order to use the entity to send the payment to the account of Clifford’s lawyer. The company, Essential Consultants LLC, was established on October 17, 2016 — just weeks ahead of the presidential election.
While the LLC was used to mask the source of the payment since Delaware doesn’t require companies to publicly disclose names of managers, and Clifford was identified as “Peggy Peterson” in the agreement, Cohen listed himself as an “authorized person” on the company’s formation documents. Yes, that’s right. Instead of having another lawyer or party handle that task, Cohen just placed his name on that line.
While Cohen has provided a statement signed by “Stormy Daniels” claiming that Clifford didn’t have a past sexual relationship with Trump, it’s been reported that numerous outlets had stories in the works prior to the election regarding the encounter. And this week, InTouch released excerpts of a 2011 interview the publication conducted with Clifford in which she confirmed the affair.
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