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(2,550 posts)His info.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,569 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)On the right. September 2007
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)From Wikipedia:
"Felix Sater was a managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, as well as a senior advisor to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization when construction of the Trump SoHo began in 2006.
He played a major role throughout the process of the building's construction, and remained managing director of Bayrock Group when the Trump SoHo project was completed in 2010. The building is a $450 million, 46-story, 39-unit hotel condominium located at 246 Spring Street in SoHo, New York City. The project was a collaboration between The Trump Organization, Bayrock Group LLC and Tamir Sapir."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)On the right.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)Trumps mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign
The Russian-born businessman says he visited Trump Tower last month for 'confidential' reasons.
by Ben Schreckinger
08/26/16
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-russia-felix-sater-227434
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)The Trump Tower sold for $100 million at auction in March. Do you honestly think they [Trump investors] are going to invest in a project when you tell them that one of the people happens to have been involved with the mob? Thats insane, said Joseph Altschul, a lawyer representing the Trump Tower investors. Sater was also charged and imprisoned in the 1990s for allegedly stabbing another broker in the face with the stem of a shattered margarita glass during a bar fight. [Miami Herald]
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)That's a great idea. Like when we helped create the Taliban.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)Trumps Bayrock dealings shine light on ties to Felix Sater
May 27, 2016
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But the Telegraph is also reporting that Trumps signing off on the deal also ties him to Sater, identified as one of the individuals in control of Bayrock. Sater joined BayrockTRData LogoTINY around 2002 and was likely number two at the company, according to a 2010 deposition.
The Trump camp has previously distanced itself from Sater, with Trump general counsel Alan Garten telling ABC News last year that the Moscow-born businessman had very little involvement in projects bearing the Trump name.
We did do due diligence and we did do background checks on the owners of [Bayrock]. He was not an owner of the company, Garten told the Telegraph.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Just the type Trump would associate himself with.
From Wikipedia:
"In 1991, Sater got into an argument with a commodities broker at the El Rio Grande restaurant and bar in Midtown. He stabbed the man's cheek and neck with the stem of a margarita glass, breaking his jaw, lacerating his face, and severing nerves.[9][1] Sater was convicted of first degree assault in 1993 and served a year in prison.[2][10] This resulted in Sater being barred from selling securities on the National Association of Securities Dealers (now called the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)He was impeached for it, I believe.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)To bad Republicans NEVER vetted or did ANY background checks on their parties choice for president. Immigrants to America get vetted much, much better.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)I sure hope I remembered that correctly.
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)I'd love to hear a reporter use that phrase in a question at a WH news conference.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,205 posts)riversedge
(70,318 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 20, 2017, 02:24 PM - Edit history (1)
First trump -I don't know him- then--something about keeping his contract--then says he has an appointment and gets up and walks out. te he
Rob S @RobPulseNews 1h1 hour ago
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Why Trump would walk out of the interview when Felix Sater was brought up is beyond me. 😲 🤔
Rob S
@RobPulseNews
You have to watch what happened in John Sweeney's 2013 interview for @BBCPanorama when Donald Trump asked about Felix Sater & Bayrock. ⚠️
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Rob S
@RobPulseNews Short and sweet:
In unaired @BBCPanorama footage, Trump is asked how he shared a lawyer with Fat Tony" Salerno (a Genovese crime family boss in NYC)
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6:01 AM - 20 Feb 2017
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Rob S @RobPulseNews 3h3 hours ago FUNNY
.@BBCPanorama Priceless reaction by Trump aide to John Sweeney's question about how Trump shares a lawyer with New York mobster "Fat Tony" Salerno. 📽️:-!
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Rob S @RobPulseNews 2h2 hours ago
.@BBCPanorama Sater, imprisoned for stabbing a man in the face & convicted for a mafia scam, escorted @DonaldJTrumpJr & @IvankaTrump around Moscow in 2006
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Rob S @RobPulseNews 1h1 hour ago
Four tweet thread 🙄⬆️📽️
@BBCPanorama @DonaldJTrumpJr @IvankaTrump
Felix Sater's 'TRUMP' biz card for 'The Trump Organization' at Trump Tower NY
Under Sater's name it states 'Senior advisor to Donald Trump'
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Rob S @RobPulseNews 3h3 hours ago
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Tell me who you walk with and Ill tell you who you are.
Cervantes
Ive always been blessed with a kind of intuition about people that allows me to sense who the sleazy guys are, and I stay far away.
Donald Trump, Surviving at the Top
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Such damning evidence right there in plain view.
Brogrizzly
(145 posts)3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)...truth about ANYTHING? ANYTHING AT ALL? (Rhetorical question.)
Nitram
(22,892 posts)Talk about weaving a tangled web!