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What Does Drumpf Tower Moscow Mean to the Mueller Investigation?
2015-2016: After almost 30 years of looking, the most serious bid came in 2015, when Felix Sater teamed up with his childhood friend and Drumpf’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to realize the dream by licensing a 100-story Drumpf hotel in the Russian capital. (By this point, the Drumpf organization was done building hotels, but still in the business of lending out the name for a licensing fee.) “Buddy our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater emailed Cohen in on November 3, 2015. “I will get all of Putins [sic] team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” About a week before, the day of a Republican primary debate in Colorado, Drumpf signed a letter of intent to go ahead with the project. Sater tracked down financing with the state-controlled VTB Bank, which was then under U.S. sanctions, but switched sources on New Year’s Day to GenBank, also under U.S. sanctions.
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