Michael Cohen Filings Show 950 Messages With Oligarch’s Cousin (1)

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, exchanged more than 230 phone calls and 950 text messages over eight months with the chief executive of a U.S. money-management firm with ties to a Russian oligarch, according to newly unsealed court documents.

The communications between Cohen and Andrew Intrater, the chief executive officer of Columbus Nova LCC, began on the day of Donald Trump’s election, according to a U.S. search-and-seizure warrant filed in Washington on Aug. 7, 2017, and unsealed on Wednesday.

Cohen leaves his apartment in Manhattan before reporting to prison in Otisville, New York on May 6.

Photographer: Stephanie Keith /Bloomberg

Citing public records and news reports, the government said Columbus Nova is an investment management firm controlled by ...