“People would like to take this 20-plus-year-old incredible commitment to communities and these organizations and would like to make it a bad thing — that we ar

“People would like to take this 20-plus-year-old incredible commitment to communities and these organizations and would like to make it a bad thing — that we are buying off support for the transaction,” Mr. Cohen said in an interview. “That is simply not true. And I believe it is offensive to the organizations we support.”