Bad news continues to follow Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney and/or ‘fixer’ for Donald Trump and a slew of other clients yet to be revealed. Last week Cohen’s office was raided by the FBI. On Monday reports came out that Cohen also represents FOX’s extreme Right Wing propagandist Sean Hannity.
Also on Monday, CNBC reported that its sources have confirmed Cohen was paid $250k to broker a deal that paid $1.6m to an ex-Playboy playmate who RNC Committee official Elliott Broidy—got pregnant.
Attorneys for Cohen and representatives for the Republican National Committee, as well as lawyers for the former Playboy model, have not yet responded to CNBC's requests for comment. Representatives for Broidy declined to comment.
Broidy has already confessed to part of this story.
“I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate," Broidy said in a statement. "At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period."
So Broidy pays for the abortion, but says it was her idea.
The $1.6 million sum was scheduled to be paid to the woman in quarterly installments, beginning in December 2017 and parceled out over the course of two years, according to sources who declined to be named. Broidy still owes money under the deal, although it was unclear how much he still had to pay out.
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The worms keep slithering out of Trump and Michael Cohen’s can. One might assume that more will be revealed. Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party’s “family values” motto—is off the charts.