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A Swiss pharmaceutical giant that paid President Trump’s personal lawyer roughly $1.2 million was questioned last year by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and was cooperating with his probe, the company said Wednesday.

Novartis paid Michael Cohen’s Essential Consulting the cash from late 2017 to early 2018 as part of a one-year contract that expired in February.

The contract called for monthly payments of $100,000 each, though wire transfers slightly reduced those amounts, Novartis said.

The drugmaker, which makes Ritalin, Lamisil and other popular drugs, said Cohen’s work was “focused on US healthcare policy matters,” according to Bloomberg.

In January, days after Novartis made its final payment to Essential, Trump dined with business leaders — including Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan — in Switzerland during the World Economic Forum.

Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels’s lawyer said Wednesday he had more evidence linking a Russian oligarch to a payment to Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.

“We haven’t released all the evidence that we have,” Michael Avenatti said on “Good Morning America.”

He also called on Trump and Cohen to release bank statements tied to hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments made by Novartis, AT&T, Korea Aerospace Industries and Columbus Nova, a New York-based investment firm linked to Kremlin-connected billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.

“Michael Cohen and the president can clear this up this morning very easily,” Michael Avenatti said. “Something doesn’t smell right. If there’s nothing to hide then why do they continue to hide this information, hide the involvement?”

During a second interview on MSNBC, Avenatti accused Cohen of “selling access” to Trump.

“Michael Cohen appears to be selling access to the president of the United States,” Avenatti said.

A lawyer for Columbus Nova said Vekselberg had nothing to do with the transaction, which Avenatti said amounted to $500,000.

And he mocked the companies explanations for why they paid Cohen, Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer who does little legal work.

“Priceless = Watching all of the companies that sent money to the LLC slush fund come up with different alleged reasons for hiring Mr. Cohen – ‘accounting advice,’ ‘real estate consulting,’ ‘insight,’ etc. Who knew Mr. Cohen was such a brilliant renaissance man?” he wrote on Twitter.

AT&T on Tuesday said it sought insights into the new administration from Cohen’s Essential Consultant, but did not engage in lobbying. A source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that AT&T paid more than $200,000 to Cohen’s company.

On Wednesday, Korea Aerospace Industries said it paid for accounting-related services, while Novartis cited healthcare consulting.

Novartis called its nearly $1.2 million payment to Cohen’s firm a mistake and said it had been contacted by Mueller’s office and was cooperating.

KAI said it had not been contacted by Mueller’s team and AT&T did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters on whether it had been contacted.