Uh ... did you really just cite the denial and explanation issued by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's holding company as if it exonerates Cohen?
Holy shit, why yes that does really appear to be exactly what you did.
You have this really strange habit of treating the camps of Russian oligarchs caught red handed in the middle of this debacle as if what they say is unassailable fact. First your professed love of all things uttered by Oleg Deripaska and now your uncritical acceptance of an implausible story spun by Viktor Vekselberg's spin machine?!?
Dude, when will the light go on in your TinyIQ brain? How many times must your heart be broken before you learn that Russian mobsters can't be taken at their word?
So just to be clear, Cohen was receiving regular payments of almost $100,000 a month more or less directly from a Russian oligarch. The agreement was for Columbus to pay Cohen $1,000,000 in total but payments stopped in August for reasons that are yet to be known. If you think Cohen was being paid 100k a month by Vekselberg for "consulting services" then you are so brain dead that there really is no hope for you. If Cohen had gone to work for Vekselberg as his full time lawyer at a billable rate of $2000 an hour of 40 hour work weeks that might come out to a half million dollars over six months of work. But in fact Cohen is nowhere near good enough to be charging that much for his legal work and there is no "investment advice" he could be giving to a Russian oligarch that could justify payments of 100k a month.
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