the deal.

Neither Cohen nor his attorney Steve Ryan immediately responded to requests for comment.

Asked Thursday whether Trump was concerned about people selling access to the president, White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters: “The president makes up his own mind about policy matters and everything else in between."

In its complaints, Public Citizen also argues that Cohen may have violated a federal law requiring representatives of foreign interests to register with the Justice Department. Another Cohen client, Korean Aerospace Industries, paid his firm $150,000 in November for legal advice on accounting standards, the company said.

The payment came as the Korean company worked with American defense contractor Lockheed Martin on a bid to build the next generation of training jets for the U.S. Air Force.

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Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer, has been at the center of a public relations and legal storm ever since news emerged in January that he had paid $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels, who says she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006, is suing to break free of a confidentiality agreement she made with Cohen.

In March, Squire Patton Boggs, the well-known law firm that had formed a "strategic alliance" with Cohen during the first year of Trump's presidency, ended its relationship with him.

Last month, the FBI raided Cohen's home, offices and hotel room as part of