Essential LLC

[boston bean]

is the porn star playboy slush fund.

These russian oligarch, people and entities gave money, for access to trump. where the money went after is the question.

I propose it was simply a slush fund for trump to pay off the women he slept with and got pregnant.

Release the bank statements maggots.

[unblock]

1. not just! it's looking like it was also a way to bribe donnie!

at&t gave money that personally benefited donnie. even if the cash never wound up in donnie's pockets directly, it was used to make payments that otherwise would have come out of his own pocket.

donnie appears to have paid at&t back by trading the powers of office for the benefit of at&t.

[boston bean]

2. I agree that is what they paid for. But the money was used to pay off

His porn stars and playboy that he cheated with.

[unblock]

4. it's both! it's criminal on the way in *and* criminal on the way out!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Betcha Kroner to Krugerrands Mueller has those bank statments

and all the records of Essential LLC and any other shell corporations set up by Trump's bag man.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. If AT&T bribed someone or the like, it's a violation of the foreign corrupt practices act...

I hope heads will fall at AT&T...when I worked there, there were very clear boundaries set of the things one couldn't do (reviewed and signed off every year by all employees). The $50000 amounts or the like amounts is really a minor amount of money so I wonder if this really was to pay someone off?

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. I'll second that - there was a time AT&T had values - as a 30 year retiree 1998 -

We were a proud company..because our company was loyal to it's employees..when SBC bought AT&T they completely gutted any values and just took the symbol and name...

Our benefits are second to none...the latest update on benefits..looks good through 2019...2020 - unknown....

BTW - my cell carrier...TMobil....sssshhhhhh

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Hello fellow retiree...retired since end of 2005...

I agree w/ you ... we were a good decent company prior to all of the corporate reorgs and then WHAM! Bit by bit, they nickel and dimed us out of little pieces of a retirement benefit here, a retirement benefit there. The stock never ever recovered. since 2007/08 timeframe. Hang in there, best wishes!

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. There is no chance...

That Cohen’s triple raid was only about Stormy.

None.

[salin]

9. collecting 4.5 million for hush money for women - I am skeptical.

I think it was set up for that purpose - before the election. But after the election - a great way to launder money and get it into the Trump family. Remember that a number of high priced units in Trump Tower were sold to shell companies in the first year of his presidency.

Win win winning. Cohen keeps getting huge commissions for managing the slush-fund-portfolio. Trump family gets a fund to pay off inconveniences (affairs), and then gets pure profit for laundered $ real estate deals.

Or at least that is my best guess with the little that we know so far.