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The Complete Timeline of the Hush Money Case, All You Need to Know! Compiled by Gene W. Edwards. Posted 5/15
· Michael Cohen, of Western European Jewish descent, grew up in Long Island, NY. His father was a surgeon and a Holocaust survivor, his mother a nurse. As a youth, he spent a lot of time observing an uncle who was a mafioso. Cohen graduated from the least prestigious law school in the country, Cooley Law School, which had campuses in Michigan and Florida. Law wasn’t Cohen’s idea; his grandmother pushed him into that career.
· Cohen had a very successful and lucrative NYC law partnership going, and was already affluent, when he went to work for Trump in 2006. He was attracted like a magnet to all things Trump.
· Note: Stormy Daniels in 2009 nearly decided to run for senator in Louisiana to fill David Vitter’s U.S. Senate seat. This made national news at the time. Daniels is no dummy! Her testimony in the NY hush money trial is second only to Cohen’s in clinching a conviction. Her whole life has 100% been about sensationalism, or is it sexsationalism?
· After working for several years for Trump, by 2015 Cohen was getting bored and restless. His family hated everything about Trump, and Cohen was now worth 100 million dollars from the 200 taxi medallions he has cornered (soon after, Lyft’s and Uber’s ride sharing concept destroyed most of NYC’s taxi medallions’ value). Cohen was also linking up with a number of NYC billionaires (Mark Cuban, etc.), who were positioning him to make it…