Grouping of CPTs and taxonomies into menu groups in admin

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I have a group of custom post types such as “CPT A”, “CPT B” and “CPT C”. I display the admin page for each of these as subpages under a common Admin page. 

add_menu_page('Console',
    'Console',
    'plugin_console',
    'plugin',
    array ( $this, 'page_main' ),
    "http://example.com/favicon.ico",
    6
    );

There are also custom taxonomies for the CPTs, and some of them are shared.

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What I’m to do is, in the admin pane add submenu page off the main one that links to the taxonomies in edit-tags.php. 

add_submenu_page('plugin',
    'Taxonomy',
    'Taxonomy',
    'manage_options',
    'plugin-taxonomy',
    array( $this, 'page_taxonomy' )
    );

The problem I encounter is that the list table doesn’t fill. Any suggestions on a good/better approach are most welcome.

Just as a follow up, I want a menu that looks something like: 

-Console
--CPT A
--CPT B
--CPT C
--Taxonomy 1
--Taxonomy 2
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  1. We could manipulate the global $menu and $submenu inside the admin_menu hook. But it’s easier to let Mike Schinkel’s WP Admin Menu Classes take care of it.

    require_once('inc/wp-admin-menu-classes.php');

add_action( 'admin_menu', function()
{
    $plugin_page = 'wpse_114343'; 
    add_menu_page(
        'Console',
        'Console',
        'edit_pages',
        $plugin_page,
        function() {},
        "http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/favicon.ico",
        6
    );
    // Move the CPT Movie and remove original
    $cpt = "edit.php?post_type=movie";
    copy_admin_menu_item( $plugin_page,$cpt );
    remove_admin_menu_section( $cpt );

    // Move the CPT Page and remove original
    $cpt2 = "edit.php?post_type=page";
    copy_admin_menu_item( $plugin_page, $cpt2 );
    remove_admin_menu_section( $cpt2 );

    // Move Posts Category and Tags and remove originals
    $cat = "edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category";
    $tag = "edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag";
    $tax_menu = 'edit.php';
    copy_admin_menu_item( $plugin_page, $tax_menu, $cat );
    copy_admin_menu_item( $plugin_page, $tax_menu, $tag );
    remove_admin_menu_item( $tax_menu, $cat );
    remove_admin_menu_item( $tax_menu, $tag );
});

    manipulated wp-admin menu and sub-menu

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