The company, which is tied to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, bought a myriad of alt-right-related domain names.
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Columbus Nova, the firm that paid Michael Cohen’s shell company Essential Consultants, also bought alt-right website domains, according to an NBC News reporter. Columbus Nova, under the design manager’s name Frederick Intrater, bought various alt-right-themed domains, including alt-right.co, alternate-rt.com, alt-rite.com. The firm also bought 1-800getalife.com, and reportedly purchased carlcuck.com and cnnjournal.com. According to NBC, Intrater is the brother of Columbus Nova CEO Andrew Intrater and cousin of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who owns Renova, the parent company of Columbus Nova. Vekselberg is the billionaire who paid Essential Consultants “hundreds of thousands of dollars” through Columbus Nova.
