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WILL JOHN MILLER EXPLAIN?
On the 24th floor of Trump Tower, in an office two floors below Donald Trump, Felix Sater had an idea:
They would build Trump towers in U.S. cities and across the former Soviet bloc.
Sater pitched it to Trump, who gave Sater’s company rights to explore projects in Moscow as well as in Florida and New York.The businessman had already done a stint in prison for stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a margarita glass, and he was now awaiting sentencing for his role in a Mafia-orchestrated stock fraud scheme — all the while serving as a government informant on the mob and mysterious matters of national security.
“Anybody can come in and build a tower,” Sater told potential investors. “I can build a Trump Tower, because of my relationship with Trump.”
His relationship with Trump has created unwanted attention for the real-estate-mogul-turned-presidential-candidate as Sater and his onetime company have endured legal disputes with former business associates and investors who lost money in failed Trump-branded projects.
Sater arrived in Trump’s orbit as the mogul was shifting his business model. Seizing on the success of his television reality show, “The Apprentice,” he focused on licensing his name to developers constructing high-rise hotels and condominium projects.
Trump has repeatedly said he barely remembers Sater. In sworn testimony, Trump said he wouldn’t recognize Sater if they were sitting in the same room. In an interview with the Associated Press, he said, “Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it.”
Documents show that Trump extended Bayrock a deal to develop a project in the Russian capital.
When Trump’s children Donald Jr. and Ivanka were planning a trip to Moscow, Trump asked him to squire them around the city.
Sater said, “He asked if I wouldn’t mind joining them and looking after them while they were in Moscow.”
Garten, Trump’s lawyer, said that Trump’s adult children and Sater happened to be there at the same time.
Garten did not dispute Sater’s account of the two men’s relationship but said it differed from Trump’s perception of events.
Sater has generally declined to comment about his relationship with Trump. But earlier this month, he tweeted his support for Trump’s presidential run, congratulating Trump on appearing to clinch the GOP nomination. “He will make the greatest President of our century,” Sater wrote.
CLAIMS HE BARELY KNOWS HIM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-mafia-linked-figure-describes-association-with-trump/2016/05/17/cec6c2c6-16d3-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html
