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Lawyers seek to unseal Sater documents
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Pelle Svanslös
Jun 20, 2017, 4:59:03 AM6/20/17
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Lawyers seeking to unseal documents related to the criminal past of a
former business partner of President Donald Trump said in federal court
on Monday that the documents may contain evidence that Trump committed
fraud.
The sealed documents are from a federal case against Felix Sater, who
Trump reportedly tapped as a senior advisor for his real-estate business
in the 2000s even after Sater’s earlier role in a Mafia-linked stock
scheme became public.
“A fellow named Donald Trump is now president and he had a business
associate named [Sater.] The public needs to know the length of their
relationship and the nature of the relationship and what kind of person
[Sater] is,” attorney Richard Lerner said in Brooklyn federal court
Monday afternoon. “By allowing this regime of secrecy to continue, it’s
facilitating what may have been fraud by President Trump.”
It was unclear from the court proceeding what acts by Trump could
possibly be construed as criminal. But after court ended, Lerner told
Newsweek that if Trump knowingly did real estate with a convicted felon,
that could constitute financial fraud.
Sater served a year in prison in 1993 for stabbing a man in the face
with a broken glass. Five years later, he pleaded guilty to taking part
in a $40 million Mafia stock fraud scheme and avoided prison by working
as a confidential informant for the FBI, The Los Angeles Times reported.
While he was still reportedly working for the feds, Sater spent years
trying to line up deals for Trump’s real estate empire around the world
beginning in 2003. Trump backed away from Sater when the latter's
criminal past became public in 2007. But about three years later, the
real estate mogul started working with him again, according to the
Associated Press.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sater-mafia-mob-bayrock-russia-court-brooklyn-fraud-behar-627408
"I see jailed people".
former business partner of President Donald Trump said in federal court
on Monday that the documents may contain evidence that Trump committed
fraud.
The sealed documents are from a federal case against Felix Sater, who
Trump reportedly tapped as a senior advisor for his real-estate business
in the 2000s even after Sater’s earlier role in a Mafia-linked stock
scheme became public.
“A fellow named Donald Trump is now president and he had a business
associate named [Sater.] The public needs to know the length of their
relationship and the nature of the relationship and what kind of person
[Sater] is,” attorney Richard Lerner said in Brooklyn federal court
Monday afternoon. “By allowing this regime of secrecy to continue, it’s
facilitating what may have been fraud by President Trump.”
It was unclear from the court proceeding what acts by Trump could
possibly be construed as criminal. But after court ended, Lerner told
Newsweek that if Trump knowingly did real estate with a convicted felon,
that could constitute financial fraud.
Sater served a year in prison in 1993 for stabbing a man in the face
with a broken glass. Five years later, he pleaded guilty to taking part
in a $40 million Mafia stock fraud scheme and avoided prison by working
as a confidential informant for the FBI, The Los Angeles Times reported.
While he was still reportedly working for the feds, Sater spent years
trying to line up deals for Trump’s real estate empire around the world
beginning in 2003. Trump backed away from Sater when the latter's
criminal past became public in 2007. But about three years later, the
real estate mogul started working with him again, according to the
Associated Press.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sater-mafia-mob-bayrock-russia-court-brooklyn-fraud-behar-627408
"I see jailed people".
The Iceberg
Jun 20, 2017, 5:20:08 AM6/20/17
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I see bitter desperate Saudi-backed Hillary fans with such sour grapes they're still not over that TRUMP WON!
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