Michael Avenatti's document dump showing alleged questionable financial transfers involving Michael Cohen has glaring errors with at least two of the transactions — the wrong Michael Cohens.
Haaretz reported one of the errors. The Daily Caller reported the other.
Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, went public with documents Tuesday showing, among other things, $980 transferred from a bank account in Kenya belonging to Netanel Cohen and Stav Hayun, Haaretz reports.
Netanel Cohen does not know Michael Cohen, personal attorney to President Donald Trump, but he does have a brother named Michael Cohen, the recipient of the $980, Netanel Cohen told Haaretz.
"It's bizarre," brother Michael Cohen told Haaretz. "It sounds ridiculous to me. How did they know about the financial transfer?"
He can thank a porn star's lawyer for that one.
Meanwhile, Zainal Kassim, who represents Actuarial Partners, told The Daily Caller that Avenatti also got another case wrong. A $4,250 wire transfer from Actuarial Partners, based in Malaysia, to a bank in Toronto, should not have been part of Avenatti's report, said the Michael Cohen associated with that firm.
"You are surely aware of the fact that this is an extremely common name and would request that you take care before involving innocent parties in this sordid affair," Cohen wrote. "Actuarial Partners have already received inquiries from the press in this regard, and we would like to see this scurrilous rumour spiked as soon as possible."
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