Novartis

[yakov_a_jerkov]

В продолжение вчерашнего "Hello!".

Только до продолжения отмечу, что к моему удивлению трамписты не явились в комментарии той записи объяснять, почему Трамп и в этой раз молодец. Единственную попытку предпринял prof_bormental, и вся эта попытка состоит в "а вот Хиллари Клинтон".

Теперь продолжение. В предыдущей записи я цитировал заявление AT&T о том, что они платили Коэну "to provide insights into understanding the new administration". Общую суммы выплат Коэну AT&T пока сообщить отказывается.

Еще один плательщик Коэну, швейцарская фармацевтическая компания Новартис, запостила свое заявление сегодня.

Novartis paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for advice on Obamacare – work he was unable to do

Drug giant Novartis revealed Wednesday that it paid President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for health-care policy consulting work that he proved "unable" to do.

The company also said it has been questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller's team about the payments to Cohen.

Novartis said it signed a one-year contract with Cohen's shell company, Essential Consultants, for $100,000 per month in February 2017, shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president.

Novartis said it believed Cohen "could advise the company as to how the Trump administration might approach certain U.S. health-care policy matters, including the Affordable Care Act."

But just a month after signing the deal, Novartis executives had their first meeting with Cohen, and afterward "determined that Michael Cohen and Essentials Consultants would be unable to provide the services that Novartis had anticipated."

But Novartis kept paying Cohen.

"As the contract, unfortunately, could only be terminated for cause, payments continued to be made until the contract expired by its own terms in February 2018," Novartis said.

That means that Cohen was paid up to $1.2 million for his work.

Я не помню, кто вчера сказал, вот что: зная то, что мы знаем и о Трампе, и о Коэне, какова вероятность того, что все эти деньги пошли лично Коэну, а сам Трамп не получил ничего? Как думаете, какова эта вероятность?

Также хотел бы узнать у трампистов: вам не кажется, что это все выглядит, как взятки Трампу?

Из заявления Новартиса:

The engagement of Essential Consultants predated Vas Narasimhan becoming Novartis CEO and he was in no way involved with this agreement. Contrary to recent media reports, this agreement was also in no way related to the group dinner Dr. Narasimhan had at the World Economic Forum in Davos with President Trump and 15 Europe based industry leaders. Suggestions to the contrary clearly misrepresent the facts and can only be intended to further personal or political agendas as to which Novartis should not be a part.

Вы верите, что встреча CEO Новартиса с Трампом никак не связана с этими платежами Коэну?

Также интересный факт из того же заявления:

In terms of the Special Counsel's office, Novartis was contacted in November 2017 regarding the company's agreement with Essential Consultants. Novartis cooperated fully with the Special Counsel's office and provided all the information requested. Novartis considers this matter closed as to itself and is not aware of any outstanding questions regarding the agreement.

Учитывая вчерашние сообщения о том, что Мюллер допрашивал Вексельберга о его платежах Коэну, можно заключить, что Мюллеру обо всех этих платежах уже давно известно.

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[tijd.livejournal.com]

Коэн не был зарегистрирован, как лоббист, и получал деньги не в благотворительный фонд "своего имени", а на счет в личном LLC. А Трамп разрешил лоббистам работать в администрации. А в остальном все сходится.

https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1343513.html?thread=44283673#t44283673

President Donald Trump's much-hyped ban on administration officials becoming lobbyists removed some of President Barack Obama's ethics rules instead of strengthening them.
Trump's ethics pledge, issued as an executive order on Saturday, includes a five-year "lobbying ban" that falls short of its name, preventing officials from lobbying the agency they worked in for five years after they leave, but allowing them to lobby other parts of the government.
The order also lets lobbyists join the administration as long as they don't work on anything they specifically lobbied on for two years. Obama's order from 2009, which Trump revoked, blocked people who were registered lobbyists in the preceding year from taking administration jobs.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-lobbying-ban-weakens-obama-ethics-rules-234318

Here’s what we found: At least 187 Trump political appointees have been federal lobbyists, and despite President Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp,” many are now overseeing the industries they once lobbied on behalf of. We’ve also discovered ethics waivers that allow Trump staffers to work on subjects in which they have financial conflicts of interest.
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-found-in-trump-administration-drained-swamp-hundreds-of-ex-lobbyists-and-washington-dc-insiders