AT&T reportedly paid President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, $600,000 to advise on various matters, including a pending merger with Time Warner. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, Cohen was hired just days after Trump was sworn into office at a rate of $50,000 a month for all of 2017 to advise AT&T on multiple matters pending before the government. Politico later confirmed the news. The $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger is currently pending before the Justice Department, which has sued to stop it from going forward. It’s unclear how Avenatti obtained the documents detailing Cohen’s finances, but they have since been confirmed by multiple media outlets.

Source: Huffington Post May 11, 2018 07:07 UTC