The company, Essential Consultants LLC, was reportedly created in Delaware -- which offers a higher standard of privacy to business owners -- by attorney Michael Cohen, according to the Journal's report, which cited corporate records and people familiar with the matter.
The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that Cohen had paid the former porn star, Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, $130,000 in exchange for her silence about the alleged encounter. Following that report, Cohen said in a statement that Trump "vehemently denies" any encounter between the two.
In addition to Essential Consultants LLC, a person familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that aliases were used to hide the names of people involved, including "Peggy Peterson" for Daniels.
For everyone that has been asking when to expect some juicy Trump Russia news:
— Angry WH Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) February 14, 2018
Stay tuned. The hush money confirmation last night was the opening salvo in what should be a fun end of the week.
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Mornin' all.. My sinuses are acting up today, but I don't feel like I'm getting sick. I just keep sneezing & dripping & feeling like I wanna scratch the inside of my skull lol
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it's awfully quiet here today.
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Mornin' all.. My sinuses are acting up today, but I don't feel like I'm getting sick. I just keep sneezing & dripping & feeling like I wanna scratch the inside of my skull lol
Welcome to my world from now until about mid-April, Scoop.
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Mornin' all.. My sinuses are acting up today, but I don't feel like I'm getting sick. I just keep sneezing & dripping & feeling like I wanna scratch the inside of my skull lol
Welcome to my world from now until about mid-April, Scoop.
I wish I knew what was causing it! I'd take a decongestant but it's not like I'm stuffed up.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin’s chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary’s wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer, the agency’s inspector general has found.
Vivieca Wright Simpson, VA’s third-most senior official, altered language in an email from an aide coordinating the trip to make it appear that Shulkin was receiving an award from the Danish government — then used the award to justify paying for his wife’s travel, Inspector General Michael J. Missal said in a report released Wednesday. VA paid $4,312 for her airfare.
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Rockville landmark, Hank Deitle's burned to the ground.
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It all started with a DM to @patkiernan. Actually, it all started with some traffic tweets. Romantic! â¤ï¸ you @brianstelter #WeMetOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/gpKN34zhhU
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Rockville landmark, Hank Deitle's burned to the ground.
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I have friends who often invited me to hang with them there, never made it..
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Rockville landmark, Hank Deitle's burned to the ground.
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I have friends who often invited me to hang with them there, never made it..
For the longest time, Deitle's had this reputation as the place for the dwindling redneck population of MoCo would go to gather. I know this wasn't true, but for the upwardly mobile, privileged youth of the Wheaton/Kensington/Bethesda/Rockville area of MoCo wouldn't want to rub elbows with "that kind of people." This is one of those cases of wishing what I knew now back then.