Donald Trump And The Felon: Inside His Business Dealings With A Mob-Connected Hustler

Source: Forbes
Published: Oct 26, 2016
Author: Richard Behar
Post Date: 2018-08-05 10:57:50 by VxH
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Felix Sater is not a name that has come up much during the presidential campaign. That he has a colorful past is an understatement: The Russian-born Sater served a year in prison for stabbing a man in the face with a margarita glass during a bar fight, pleaded guilty to racketeering as part of a mafia-driven "pump-and-dump" stock fraud and then escaped jail time by becoming a highly valued government informant.

He was also an important figure at Bayrock, a development company and key Trump real estate partner during the 2000s, notably with the Trump SoHo hotel- condominium in New York City, and has said under oath that he represented Trump in Russia and subsequently billed himself as a senior Trump advisor, with an office in Trump Tower.

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#1: VxH    To: All (#0)

Whose "boy"?

VxH posted on 2018-08-05 10:58:05   Reply   Private Reply

#2: nolu chan    To: VxH (#0)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#72e785c52282

This story appears in the October 25, 2016 issue of Forbes.

I guess it didn't gain traction in the November 2016 election.

And, Sater is a known long-time CIA/DIA/FBI asset. I know you would have mentioned that eventually, but let me help before you forget.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/felix-sater-trump-russia-undercover-us-spy

THE ASSET

How A Player In The Trump-Russia Scandal Led A Double Life As An American Spy

Felix Sater has been cast as a Russian mafioso, a career criminal, and a key business associate of President Donald Trump's — but he spent more than two decades as an intelligence asset who helped the US government track terrorists and mobsters. “Greed is my go-to weapon.”

Anthony Cormier
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Jason Leopold
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Posted on March 12, 2018, at 11:56 a.m. ET

In the sprawling Trump-Russia investigation, one name constantly pops up: Felix Sater. In story after story, Sater is described as Donald Trump’s former business partner, a convicted stock swindler who was born in the Soviet Union, worked in Russia, tried to win Trump a deal in Moscow, and even helped broker a Ukrainian peace plan that Vladimir Putin would have loved.

Basically, he’s portrayed as something just short of a Russian spy.

Effectively, he has been a spy — but for the United States. For the first time, BuzzFeed News has verified the surprising sweep of Sater’s undercover work and many of his specific exploits. He worked as an asset for the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (or DIA) and tracked Osama bin Laden. Then he worked for more than a decade for the FBI, providing intel on everything from the mob to North Korea’s drive for nuclear weapons. He still operates as a source for the bureau, according to two current FBI agents.

He did some of this work to fend off prison time after he admitted guilt in a stock scam — but he had started helping the US government before then, and he continued to report back to the FBI after the agreement ended. Today, as he is being questioned about Trump's business deals and ties to Russia, he has built relationships with at least six members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, some going back more than 10 years.

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It appears he may have been asshole buddies with Walter Brennan, or was it John Brennan. Some communist ahole, whatever.

nolu chan posted on 2018-08-06 17:32:08   Reply   Private Reply