FILE – In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. President Donald Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, May 2, 2018, the president repaid attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Giuliani made the revelation during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) 
FILE – In this April 18, 2018, file photo, Stewart Cohen, an attorney representing two black men arrested for sitting at a Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia without ordering anything, answers a reporter’s question during an interview with The Associated Press in Philadelphia. Cohen and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney outlined the city’s settlement with the two men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, for a symbolic $1 each, and a promise from city officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File) 
Michael Cohen arrives at federal court in New York, Thursday, April 26, 2018. Federal prosecutors are now fully behind the appointment of a neutral special master to decide what materials seized from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Cohen, are shielded by attorney-client privilege. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) 
FILE – In a Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, center, leaves federal court, in New York. Federal prosecutors said they can give President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Cohen, copies of materials seized from him by the FBI by May 11. They notified a New York judge Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
WASHINGTON | Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says he has information showing that President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to Daniels.
Daniels is a porn star who claims she had a tryst with Trump.
Lawyer Michael Avenatti released no documents to support the claim and did not reveal the source of his information. But he released a memo Tuesday detailing what he said were wire transfers going into and out of the account Michael Cohen used to pay Daniels $130,000.
The memo states that Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire, and his cousin routed the money to Cohen’s company between January and August 2017.
Avenatti speculated without proof that the money may have been used to replenish Cohen’s account.