Writing on the wall for Trump fixer as money trail exposed

Big business knows that in Trump’s swamp you pay to play and payments from Russian firms, among others, lead back to the president’s ‘fixer’, Michael Cohen, writes Timothy O’Brien.

There may be any number of reasons why a management firm linked to a powerful Russian oligarch favoured by the Kremlin paid about $500,000 (€420,000) to retain the services of a once obscure and middling lawyer who was also President Donald Trump’s personal attorney.