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A tale of wire transfers from Kenya, hush money, and two Michael Cohens: How these Israelis got entangled in the Trump-Stormy Daniels affair

One entry on the list of financial transfers to Cohen’s account is the modest sum of $980 transferred from a Kenyan bank account belonging to Netanel Cohen and Stav Hayun. The U.S. media have investigated several of the bank transfers listed in Avenatti’s document and confirmed their veracity.

But when Haaretz investigated the Israeli couple on the list, the results were surprising.

Hayun, an Ashdod native in her twenties, has spent the past several years in Kenya, where she works as a pastry cook and advises restaurants on how to construct their menus. Nati Cohen, who once lived with her in Kenya, currently lives in Ashdod, where he too works in the restaurant business.

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In a conversation with Haaretz, Cohen sounded utterly surprised that his name and Hayun’s appear in the document Avenatti made public, and it took several minutes to convince him that this wasn’t a prank.

“I’ve never heard of Michael Cohen and I have no connection to this affair,” he said.

But though Cohen said he doesn’t know Trump’s attorney, he confirmed that he has a bank account in Kenya and has transferred money from it to his brother. The brother’s name, as it turns out, is Michael Cohen.

The brother also lives in Ashdod and works as a technician servicing El Al planes. He, too, was stunned when Haaretz contacted him. “It’s bizarre,” he said. “It sounds ridiculous to me. How did they know about the financial transfer?”