BBC reports that “intermediaries acting for Ukraine’s leader, Petro Poroshenko,” paid $400,000 to $600,000 to Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen

BBC reports that “intermediaries acting for Ukraine’s leader, Petro Poroshenko,” paid $400,000 to $600,000 to Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, “to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump.” According to BBC’s unnamed sources, the horse trading over the amount of time with the US president continued until a few hours before Poroshenko’s White House meeting last June 20. The BBC notes: “Shortly after the Ukrainian president returned home, his country’s anti-corruption agency stopped its investigation into Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.”