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The chief executives of AT&T and Novartis are both in damage control mode for their dealings with Michael Cohen, apologizing to employees for poor judgment in paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to President Donald Trump's personal attorney for insights into the president's thinking. Also, earlier in the week it was reported that a shell company that Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch. Of course, none of this has anything to do with Donald Trump, it's just kind of funny the way he attracts corruption like a dung magnet.