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The payment story of 130,000 U.S dollars from U.S President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to Stephanie Clifford (known as the adult film actress “Stormy Daniels”) has made another turn by involving AT&T. the lawyer of Daniels, Michael Avenatti tweeted earlier claiming the U.S President and Cohen have a lot of explaining to do, linking to a document detailing suspicious financial transactions involving the Essential Consultants LLC that Cohen formed in 2016 to pay Daniels. AT&T confirmed in a statement provided to CNBC that the payment of 200,000 U.S dollars reported by Avenatti. Avenatti said that Cohen’s firm was one of several engaged for “insights” into the new administration. Cohen said in the court that he represented only Trump, Elliott Broidy, and Sean Hannity.

Last week, the former mayor of New York City and current lawyer of Trump, Rudolph Giuliani went on Fox News to say that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the payment. But, the payments revealed by Avenatti suggest funding could have come from a number of other sources, including AT&T. It doesn’t matter why this amount was for, they came at the same time the company has been seeking approval for its merger with Time Warner. The U.S Attorney in Manhattan and the White House, Cohen hasn’t yet made any comment on the transfer. As far as what this could mean for any of the parties involved, or AT&T’s still-pending transaction, we will just have to wait and see what is next.