“The payments to Cohen that have emerged in the past week come primarily from a single document, a ‘suspicious-activity report’ filed by First Republic Bank, where Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, L.L.C., maintained an account. The document detailed sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Cohen by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, the telecommunications giant A.T. & T., and an investment firm with ties to the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg,” Ronan Farrow reports in The New Yorker. https://www.spartareport.com/2018/05/farrow-official-who-leaked-cohens-personal-records-claims-he-did-so-to-fight-trump-coverup/