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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAT&T Insiders Amusingly Attempt To Explain Cohen Payments
Oh boy....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohens-600000-deal-with-atandt-specified-he-would-advise-on-time-warner-merger-internal-company-records-show/2018/05/10/cd541ae0-5468-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.327d5ba8e27c
The documents detail the full scope of Cohens $600,000 deal with AT&T and how his contract specified that he would provide advice on the $85 billion merger, which required the approval of federal antitrust regulators.
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The $600,000 that flowed to Cohen from AT&T was about 3.5 percent of the $16.8 million the company spent on lobbying in 2017, according to disclosure forms.
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The internal AT&T documents show that Cohen was supposed to spend half his time on legislative policy development and the other half on regulatory policy development. Payments to Cohen were approved by two executives in AT&Ts public affairs office in Washington.
Because, hell yeah, when I need advice on telecom legislative and regulatory policy development, I'm going to call a guy who launders money through real estate and the taxi medallion racket.
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AT&T Insiders Amusingly Attempt To Explain Cohen Payments (Original Post)
jberryhill
May 2018
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Takket
(21,566 posts)1. is the swamp drained yet?
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)2. A bunch of overpaid Bobos in suits trying to justify/minimize
A bribe. The lousy bastards got conned by a lousy bastard.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)3. K&R n/t.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)4. AT&T knew exactly what they were getting into
Whatever they try to call it, it's bribery.
safeinOhio
(32,677 posts)6. Nothing to see here.
Now pay a small fine and move along.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)5. #Insights