DT lawyer Michael Cohen has an alias. I wonder if the alias has a passport.

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1. Michael Hacking is name of one of Cohen's many taxicab companies, not exactly an alias

See this article from Feb. by Josh Marshall mentioning the taxicab company. Michael Cohen has about two dozen different NYC taxi cab companies registered under different names of which Sir Michael Hacking is one of his companies.

"SIR MICHAEL HACKING CORP. is corporation filed with the New York State Department of State (NYSDOS). The DOS ID is 2124629. The business entity is incorporated in New York County. The entity type is DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION. The initial DOS filing date is 03/19/1997. The address is 502 Park Avenue / #10a, New York, New York 10022. The city is New York, New York. The zip code is 10022. The CEO name is MICHAEL COHEN."



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/michael-cohen-ukraine-bigly

"Before Cohen hooked up with Trump (circa 2006-07), Cohen made a lot of money in the New York City taxi business. A friend mentioned this to me this morning. Sure enough it’s discussed in this story in The Wall Street Journal from January. How’d Cohen get into the taxi business? That’s not clear. But his business partner was a law client named Simon Garber, who the Journal describes as a “Ukrainian-born taxi baron.”

Cohen sold his share of the business to Garber in the early aughts before he hooked up with Trump, though for whatever reason, as the Journal notes, he “remains listed on New York City taxi and state corporation records as owning some taxi medallions through companies with colorful names such as Sir Michael Hacking Corp. and Mad Dog Cab Corp.”

It seems like the taxi business may be where Cohen first became a wealthy man and it may have been his income from the taxi business which allowed him to start snapping up Trump apartment properties, how Cohen first came to Trump’s attention. But that wasn’t the only business Cohen was in around that time. About the same time Cohen set up another business with two other Ukrainian immigrants, Arkady Vaygensberg and Leonid Tatarchuk.

This was MLA Cruises, a Florida company which took patrons on cruises outside US territorial waters to gamble. Cohen was CEO. MLA Cruises collapsed in a welter of lawsuits mainly targeting Vaygensberg and Tatarchuk. MLA Cruises may not have been as successful. But it’s still quite a fascinating business to have been in."