The Independent reminds us Felix Sater is assisting the Feds about laundering through Trump SoHo

[muriel_volestrangler]

Forget Paul Manafort – these are the men cooperating with the FBI who Trump should be really afraid of

Sater is a lifelong friend of Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer and a former vice president of the Trump Organisation. Sater was convinced that Putin would help Trump to get to the White House and he and Cohen would receive the credit due for this. “Can you believe two guys from Brooklyn are going to elect a president?” was the email sent to Cohen at one stage. He had stated, in earlier messages, that Putin would back the development of a Trump Tower hotel in Moscow and that this would be part of a grand plan. “Our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it…I will get Putin on this programme and we will get Trump elected.”
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Andrew Weissmann, the prosecutor who “turned” Sater after the mafia extortion case and signed his plea bargaining deal is now in the Mueller team, one of many experienced lawyers who had left highly-paid jobs or taken leave of absence, to join the investigation.

Sater has agreed to help a federal inquiry into alleged money laundering by Viktor Khrapunov, Kazakhstan’s former energy minister and the former mayor of the city of Almaty who was charged by Kazakh authorities with abuse of power. He is on the Interpol wanted list at the behest of Kazakh authorities. Khrapunov’s family allegedly used shell companies to buy Trump SoHo properties worth an estimated $3.1m. It is not known how much of the supposedly laundered money went to Trump.

Any relevant information from the Kazakh inquiry about Donald Trump is expected to be sent to Robert Mueller. We have to wait to see whether Felix Sater, whose previous “ cooperation runs a gamut that is seldom seen” according to the Justice Department has more to reveal about the US President – the man he had helped, as he had once excitedly claimed, to get to the White House.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/paul-manafort-russia-donald-trump-fbi-robert-mueller-george-papadopoulos-investigation-election-a8029636.html

(See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141814645 for the original report of his cooperation; and https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029477155 for how he is reportedly convinced he and Trump are going to prison)

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh my.

Donnie's fav Russian is turning States Evidence,who would of thunk. Felix once said,he and Donnie would eventually share the same cell. Golly Gee Whiz.