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The Fixer’s Mystery Fund
特朗普“善后者”的神秘資金
Millions went in, but for what?
進賬資金數以百萬計，問題是都是為了什么?
By Brian Bennett, Haley Sweetland Edwards
文/布萊恩·貝內特，海利·斯威特蘭德·愛德華茲
AT 5:06 P.M. On May 8, Michael Avenatti, the ubiquitous lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, tweeted a bombshell.
5月8日下午5:06，成人電影明星斯托米·丹尼爾斯那位無所不在的律師邁克爾·阿文納蒂發了一條爆炸性的推文。
Avenatti, whose client is suing President Trump,
斯托米·丹尼爾斯目前正在起訴特朗普總統，
said he had obtained a list of alleged wire transfers dating from October 2016 to January 2018
阿文納蒂在推文中表示，他拿到了一份據稱是2016年10月至2018年1月期間，
into and out of a company controlled by Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer.
特朗普的私人律師邁克爾·科恩控制的一家公司賬戶資金往來的電匯清單。
Among the alleged inflows to Essential Consultants LLC:
流入這家名為“必要咨詢”的公司資金包括：
half a million dollars from a firm controlled by an aluminum baron close to Russian President Vladimir Putin
與俄羅斯總統普京關系密切的某位鋁業大亨控制的一家公司匯入的50萬美元，
and hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies with business before the Trump Administration,
以及特朗普政府成立之前就存在的多家公司，
including telecom giant AT&T and Swiss pharmaceutical behemoth Novartis.
包括電信巨頭AT&T和瑞士制藥巨頭諾華提供的數十萬美元。
Going out, Avenatti claims:
阿文納蒂對外宣稱，
the now famous $130,000 mystery-money payment to Daniels,
除了如今盡人皆知的那筆打給丹尼爾斯的13萬美元的神秘資金，
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cohen’s own bank accounts
還有幾十萬美元打到了科恩自己的多個銀行賬戶，
and millions of dollars in unaccounted for payments to unknown parties.
以及打進來，最后支付給了未知方的數百萬美元不明款項。
In the hours following the tweet, several of Cohen’s clients confirmed the payments,
在這條推文發布后的幾個小時里，科恩的幾位客戶陸陸續續確認了那些款項，
and it became clear that a new front had opened up in Trump’s legal and political battlefield.
很明顯，特朗普的法律和政治戰場已經開辟出了一條新的戰線。
For the past year, Trump had railed against the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller
過去一年里，特朗普一直在譴責說特別檢察官羅伯特·穆勒領導調查的
as a witch hunt into nonexistent election collusion with Russia.
他在選舉期間勾結俄羅斯一事根本是子虛烏有，是對他的政治迫害。
Avenatti’s disclosures, coming just a month after an FBI raid of Cohen’s temporary residence and office,
就在阿文納蒂爆料的一個月前，聯邦調查局突襲了科恩的臨時住所和辦公室，
showed that the Justice Department probe has expanded
因此，這一爆料表明，司法部已經擴大了此次調查的范圍，
to encompass the business and political activities of Trump’s inner circle during the transition and under his presidency,
將特朗普的核心集團在換屆期間和特朗普任期內的商業和政治活動，
including payments allegedly made in the President’s personal interest.
比如據稱是以總統個人的名義支付的款項也納入了調查。
The broadening investigation is a problem for Trump that firing Mueller can’t solve.
對特朗普而言，司法部這次擴大調查范圍已經成了解雇穆勒都無法解決的問題。
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