New report suggests Trump may have lied about ties to mob-linked Russian businessman

[applegrove]

MATTHEW ROZSA at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/07/new-report-suggests-trump-may-have-lied-about-ties-to-mob-linked-russian-businessman/

"SNIP..........

President Donald Trump has long insisted that he doesn't know Felix Sater, a Russian businessman with a number of shady ties to organized crime. Yet a new report suggests that Trump and Sater not only know each other but hung out together just as the former was celebrating his upset victory in the 2016 election.
Courtesy of GQ's account of Trump's war room during election night:

11:55 P.M.—Among the well-wishers and Trump associates eager to join in the celebration is Felix Sater, a Russian-born entrepreneur and sometime business partner of Trump's, who's helped locate potential real estate deals in the former Soviet Union. (Since the election, Sater's links to Russia have come under scrutiny as it's been revealed that he offered, in 2015, to broker a relationship between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin—one that he said could win Trump the White House. "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected," Mr. Sater wrote to Trump's lawyer.) . . .

From his home on Long Island, Sater orders a late-night ride from a car service. His destination: the invite-only victory party at the Midtown Hilton.

Trump has become notorious for downplaying his association with Sater. During a court deposition in 2013, Trump said, "I mean, I’ve seen him a couple of times; I have met him." He was also reported as saying, "If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn’t know what he looked like." This continued to be Trump's position in 2015, when he responded to a question about Sater by saying, "Boy, I have to even think about it."

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[AJT]

1. I'm shocked.....SHOCKED I'm telling you!

[BigmanPigman]

2. Don the Con lies better than a rug.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Sater is Russian born.

Felix Henry Sater (born Felix Mikhailovich Sheferovsky; March 2, 1966) is a Russia-born American real estate developer and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate conglomerate based out of New York City, New York.

Sater has been an advisor to many corporations, including The Trump Organization.

In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia.
In exchange for his guilty plea, he agreed to become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime. In July 2017, it was reported that Sater had agreed to cooperate with investigators concerning an international money laundering scheme.

According to the FBI, Sater's dad, Mikhail Sheferovsky was an underboss for Russian Mafia "boss of bosses" Semion Mogilevich and convicted of extorting money from local restaurants, grocery stores, and a medical clinic.

so that is the Wiki info.
what is not well known...yet...is that Semion Mogilevich is supposedly the power behind the Russian mob, on a global scale.

and what I don't understand is how Sater could rat out the Russian mob in 1998 and still be walking around.

[dlk]

4. I There Anything Trump Doesn't Lie About?

Seriously, I can't think of anything.

[RandomAccess]

5. Ww've known this for months --

My first Sater-Trump bookmark was Jan 2, 2017

[spanone]

6. i believe trump is incapable of telling truth.

he truth.