by Andrew C McCarthy
Under another day of withering cross-examination on Monday, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization.
Between February and December 2017, Cohen was paid $35,000 per month by the former president.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has suggested that Cohen was not actually retained to do real work as Trump’s lawyer during that time. Instead, prosecutors say, Cohen was principally paid to reimburse him for $130,000 he’d laid out in October 2016 to purchase the silence of a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had threatened to go public about a tryst she says she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Cohen also asked for a reimbursement of the $50,000 he’d paid a digital services company called Red Finch for assistance in spinning poll results. The Trump Organization agreed to reimburse Cohen for the Stormy and Red Finch expenses, and even doubled the amount so that Cohen would not suffer a tax hit. Another $60,000 bonus was added, for a total of $420,000. One year of “work,” $35,000 a month.
Yet Cohen conceded during cross-examination that he…
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