Felix Sater has led an interesting life. He is a Russian immigrant was convicted in 1998 of a violent attack which was allegedly linked to the Russian Mob. He was later caught up in a $40 Million Stock Fraud case which led to his becoming an informant for the FBI against the mob. During the early 2000s he became a managing director for Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate firm founded by Turkish immigrant Tefvik Arif who was arrested, tried and eventually acquitted of being involved in an underage prostitution ring in Turkey.
Bayrock worked with Donald Trump on many projects including Trump Tower in Pheonix and Trump Soho a project that was sued for fraudulent claims, as well as various other projects many of which involved condo sales to Russian nationals who in fact spent $98 Million with Trump between 2001-2007. Bayrock eventually went out of business and was later involved in a racketeering case in 2010. Following which Sater went to work for Trump. More recently he tried help broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia with Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen that would have lifted Russian sanctions.
And what he says now is more than a little interesting:
Sources told The Spectator‘s Paul Wood that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deep dive into Trump’s business practices may be yielding results.
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And according to Wood’s sources, Sater may have already flipped and given prosecutors the evidence they need to make a case against Trump.
For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. ‘He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison,’ someone talking to Mueller’s investigators informed me.
Sater hinted in an interview earlier this month that he may be cooperating with both Mueller’s investigation and congressional probes of Trump.
“In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” Sater told New York Magazine. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.”
All of this just might explain why Trump was so adamant that Mueller “looking at his personal finances” just might cross a “red line.”
[This post is part of a larger series including my original Master Timeline which begins in 1986 when Trump first began talking about becoming a diplomat/negotiator with Russia so he could “end the Cold War in an hour” which has been split due to length with a new Master List Vol 2 beginning in Mid-June.
There are also view previous incremental updates for August 4th, July 28th, July 14th, July 10th, July 9th, July 4th, June 21st, June 18th, June 14th, June 12th, June 9th, June 6th, and June 2nd.]
In addition to Sater we’ve also had the early morning raid on Manafort’s house indicating the Mueller’s investigation is ramping up while he’s opened up a second grand jury specifically looking at Trump rather than just at Michael Flynn.
And also in addition to Donald Jr’s meeting with Russia attorney Veselnitskaya over Hillary Oppo-research and Magnitsky Sanctions we also have this report that a Trump staffer had been repeatedly attempting to set up meetings with Russia.
Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.”
The adviser, George Papadopoulos, offered to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity, according to internal campaign emails read to The Washington Post.
The proposal sent a ripple of concern through campaign headquarters in Trump Tower. Campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis wrote that he thought NATO allies should be consulted before any plans were made. Another Trump adviser, retired Navy Rear Adm. Charles Kubic, cited legal concerns, including a possible violation of U.S. sanctions against Russia and of the Logan Act, which prohibits U.S. citizens from unauthorized negotiation with foreign governments.
So that’s something different from “we had no interest in Russia and we had no Russians in our campaign.”
Here are the other latest updates:
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August 5th —
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August 9th —
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August 10th —
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August 11th —
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August 12th —
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The Alt-Right Neo-Nazi Protest in Charlottesville VA erupts in more violence. Deandre Harris is beaten bloody, a car driven my James Fields Jr. smashes into a crowd of counter-protesters killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. Fields is arrested and charged with 2nd Degree Murder, but not a Hate Crime or with Terrorism.
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Vice News embedded with United The Right spokesman Christopher Cantwell interviews him claiming that Fields was “more than justified” to run down Heyer and the others.
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David Duke says the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” protest fulfills the promises of Donald Trump.
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August 13th —
- Trump gives a rambling confused statement on Charlottesville that talks about violence “on many sides” and never mentions white supremacist or neo-Nazis.
- Washington Post reports Trump staffer George Papadopoulos repeatedly offered to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” “Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right,” Papadopoulos wrote in an email to former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on April 27, 2016. He also told Lewamdowski he had fielded “a lot of calls over the past month” related to a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos said in a separate email to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
- Cantwell goes on a youtube crying jag when he finds out Charlottesville police might have a warrant for his arrest.
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August 15th —
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Kushner faces lawsuit for over charging rent in NYC.
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Trump retweets meme of a train running over a CNN reporter.
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Trump angrily argues during what’s supposed to be a short Press Briefing for “Infrastructure Week” that “Both Sides” were at fault in Charlottesville violence, claiming some on the right “protested quietly” and those on the left “came charging at them with clubs” which stuns even many in the GOP who begin to quickly refute him. He claims — in support of a common pro-Confederate meme — that if Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues have to come down so do monuments to Washington and Jefferson since they were slave owners, although they never attacked and wage war against America over it. The fact he doesn’t get that they fought Britain to increase freedom, not decrease it means his real White-Power bona fides are finally revealed and confirmed.
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August 16th —
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August 17th —
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The Spectator reports that Felix Sater — who helped sell many Trump properties to various Russians through his former real estate firm Bayrock — may have flipped for the FBI again and that he has said the both he and Trump “are going to prison.”
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Cantwell states emphatically that he’s “Not a coward.” No one is impressed, particularly not PayPal and Ok, Cupid who cut him off for life.
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UVA Librarian Tyler McGill suffers a stroke from being struck in the neck with a Tiki Torch by Unite the Right protestors.
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Foreign Policy reports that Wikileaks refused to receive or publish 68 Gig of negative data on the operations of the Kremlin.
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Buzzfeed reports that Trump is furious that “Bannon is taking credit for my election.”
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A Van strikes 50 people in Barcelona, 13 are killed. 2 suspects are taken into custody but no information about them or their motive is released immediately.
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Trump tweets in support of “beautiful Confederate Statues” and decrying “Terrorism in Barcelona” then later endorsed a questionable internet rumor that a U.S. General in the Philippines committed the War Crime of mass executions using bullets laced with pigs blood to deter terrorists, when in actuality he sat down with Muslims, ate their food, learned their language, customs and read the Koran with them. CNN’s Jake Tapper says “He just suggested we should study a lie.” But he still hasn’t said anything about the firebombing of a mosque in Minnesota, the car crashed into a crowd near a mosque in London or the machete attack against Democrats in Kentucky.
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Mike Huckabee says if you take down Robert E. Lee, you have to take down Mt. Rushmore.
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With “Infrastructure Week” not quite complete, Trump gives up on his infrastructure council.
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August 18th —