THREAD: What does Michael Cohen have to do with Russia? Lots.
-Before the presidential campaign, he was a major force behind the Trump Org’s pivot to licensing deals, working to broker deals with allegedly corrupt businessmen in Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. 1/
-Before the presidential campaign, he was a major force behind the Trump Org’s pivot to licensing deals, working to broker deals with allegedly corrupt businessmen in Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. 1/
During the campaign, Cohen worked with longtime pal Felix Sater to develop Trump Tower Moscow, reportedly securing financing from a sanctioned state-run Russian bank. Leaked emails between them suggest they considered TTM an avenue to achieve business and political goals. 2/
Cohen continued working with Sater during the transition, acting as conduits between a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician with whom Sater had a business relationship and Michael Flynn to deliver a “peace plan” for Ukraine that would result in the lifting of sanctions on Russia. 3/
Cohen has testified before both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. 4/
Allegations against Cohen in the Stormy Daniels affair bear a striking similarity to reports from the Steele Dossier: that Cohen went to Prague as a representative of Trump’s campaign to meet with Russians to cover up collusion between the two sides. 5/ themoscowproject.org/dispatch/micha…
Finally, looking at the web of Michael Cohen's connections to the Trump Organization and Russian interests paint a clear picture of a man at the center of collusion. 6/6 themoscowproject.org/explainers/map… 
