https://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-reportedly-hired-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-for-advice-on-time-warner-bid/ >AT&T paid President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen $600,000 to advise the telecom giant on its proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, along with other issues pending before the federal government, The Washington Post reported Thursday. >Documents obtained by the Post showed the company turned to Cohen three days after Trump was elected, specifying that Cohen would provide the company with advice on its merger with Time Warner. It was unclear what insights Cohen, a longtime real estate attorney, would have been able to offer AT&T on a complicated telecommunications-entertainment merger, the Post pointed out.