Cohen made material misrepresentations about his finances
Cohen opened a checking account in the name of Essential Consultants, LLC, he being the only authorized signatory and stated it was for a real estate consulting company to collect fees for investment consulting. Then on Jan 1, 2017 he began receiving deposits from Columbus Nova LLC a management investment firm controlled by Renova Group and industrial holding company located in Zurich, that is controlled by Russian National Viktor Vekselberg. Then 6months later, Essential Consultants LLC, recieves payments from Novartis Investments SARL. Shortly after wire payments come in from ATT. For 4 months he also received payments from a South Korea Bank Account, Korea Areospace Industries, (KAI), Kazakhstani Bank (BTA). All of these were stated as consulting fees, meanwhile, he claimed poverty essentially to the banks here.
This is why the bank fraud..misstated his earnings to creditors.
He created the consulting firm, using his previous connections with Trump's private life businesses. Selling the idea to these firms he has a door way for access to the Whitehouse.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5775620/cohen-raid-materials-release.pdf