https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/16/1763976/-Essential-Consultants-the-Trump-Foundation-and-Donald-Trump-s-need-for-ready-cash
"Essential Consultants is not a charity. Not even a pretend charity. But it is an LLC, meaning that both its ownership and its business dealings can be deliberately vague. Both Michael Cohen and Donald Trump were certainly no strangers to the anonymity and protection an LLC can provide. The Trump Organization itself includes over 500 LLCs, almost all of them listing the same scant information and all of them owned by Trump. Some of them exist only to own other LLCs within the organization, making it ditheringly impossible to figure out the legitimacy of some of Trump’s reported expenses. Some of Trump’s LLCs have purposes that can be guessed at by looking at their names—though not necessarily. Some of them exist for no obvious reason at all. Which is the point. These LLCs are impenetrable in most instances. Even the names don’t have to match what they do. As several people have noted, everything about the name Essential Consultants is a lie—right down to the “s” in Consultants."
