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By Katherine Burton, Sridhar Natarajan, and Shahien Nasiripour

March 18, 2019 at 9:00 AM UTC

Corrected

March 18, 2019 at 10:02 PM UTC

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The threat was blunt: Back off, or there will be trouble.

The 2016 presidential campaign had just ended, and Michael Cohen was fresh off handling hush money for Donald Trump. Now he was working for the benefit of Chatham Asset Management, a $4.3 billion hedge fund that owns the National Enquirer.