So this is Trump's Russia connection? Sater is a guy who left Russia as a kid. He was 8 years old when he ended up in New York. He was working for Trump and the FBI at the same time.
Is the plan to go after Trump for false testimony in a 2013 law suit where he says he didn't know Sater or wouldn't recognize him? Is that what the plan is now?
Felix Sater is more than just a guy who was born in Russia and left when he was 8 years old, that's not the whole story behind Felix Sater. He's a damn 'former' mobster, as they all are in Trump's world. Felix Sater can easily be described as a double-dealer, working both sides.
He helped the United States hunt down Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda terrorists. He took down mobsters. He provided intelligence to stop the attempted murder of an American president.
He also participated in a large-scale Wall Street scam, went to jail for cutting a man’s face with a broken margarita glass during a bar fight and spent a year in jail for assault and then had trouble finding work after he was released. Sater then decided that he would start his own company called White Rock — but it did some illegal stuff. He relied on a “pump-and-dump” scheme, where his company bought really cheap stocks and tried to sell them at much higher prices to gullible bidders. He suckered investors out of around $40 million, court records show.
This is where Sater’s ties to the mafia interested law enforcement: At least five different New York City crime families were involved in the scheme. It surely formed part of the mob’s ties to the illicit stock trade around the mid-1990s. What’s more, Sater’s father — a mob boss in his own right — had connections to other criminals, and one of his associates helped protect Sater’s business.
The FBI, as part of a larger investigation named “Operation Street Cleaner,” went after Sater and those involved in his business. Sater left his organization about 18 months after he started it, but he was still a person of interest, and he eventually turned himself in and pleaded guilty to his crimes. The FBI said they would let him go as long as he continued to provide intelligence for the government, an obligation which he is still carrying out today.
He helped Trump during his presidential campaign to put his name on a tower in Moscow. He’s a real-life international man of mystery who could be a key link to Trump’s ties with high-level Russians — including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Felix Sater is a man with a very dark and suspicious character. I'm buying extra popcorn to watch his testimony.
