GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump appointed a senior adviser involved in a stock fraud scheme with mafia ties, according to a Friday report from The Associated Press.
Felix Sater reportedly conducted business with the real estate tycoon after his links with organized crime emerged publicly in 2007. Trump lawyer Alan Garten told the AP that Sater prospected high-end real estate deals for The Trump Organization. The partnership lasted just six months, he added.
Sater pleaded guilty in 1998 to one count of racketeering for his role in a $40 million stock fraud scheme involving the Genovese and Bonanno mafia families, AP reports. Insiders allegedly manipulated the price of obscure stocks before selling them at inflated prices to unaware investors. Sater also received more than a year in prison in 1993 for stabbing a man’s face with a broken margarita glass...
Sater refused to comment on his past association with Trump. Obviously a Donald-and-the-bad-guy piece is not interesting for me to participate in,” he wrote in an email. Trump, for his part, argued he did not have personal intimacy with the stock fraud felon and former mafia informant.
“Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it,” he said, referring questions about Sater to his aides. "I’m not that familiar with him.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...mp-tapped-stock-fraud-felon-as-senior-adviser
Trump for Prison 2016
Felix Sater reportedly conducted business with the real estate tycoon after his links with organized crime emerged publicly in 2007. Trump lawyer Alan Garten told the AP that Sater prospected high-end real estate deals for The Trump Organization. The partnership lasted just six months, he added.
Sater pleaded guilty in 1998 to one count of racketeering for his role in a $40 million stock fraud scheme involving the Genovese and Bonanno mafia families, AP reports. Insiders allegedly manipulated the price of obscure stocks before selling them at inflated prices to unaware investors. Sater also received more than a year in prison in 1993 for stabbing a man’s face with a broken margarita glass...
Sater refused to comment on his past association with Trump. Obviously a Donald-and-the-bad-guy piece is not interesting for me to participate in,” he wrote in an email. Trump, for his part, argued he did not have personal intimacy with the stock fraud felon and former mafia informant.
“Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it,” he said, referring questions about Sater to his aides. "I’m not that familiar with him.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...mp-tapped-stock-fraud-felon-as-senior-adviser
Trump for Prison 2016
