Felix Sater is back. The Donald Trump business associate last month splashed down in the middle of a New York Times story about a freelanced Ukraine “peace proposal” hand-delivered to the White House by Mr. Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen. Mr.
Sater pleaded guilty to racketeering and became an FBI informant, sending many of his co-conspirators to jail. Court documents and other records suggest that Mr. Sater was an active FBI informant from 1998 to 2001.
In 2002, back in New York, Mr. Sater joined the Bayrock Group, a real estate development firm based in Trump Tower. Bayrock was created by a former Soviet official and wealthy Kazakh investors and Mr. Trump was soon doing deals with them. Mr. Sater worked at Bayrock until 2008.
In 2000, Mr. Sheferovsky pleaded guilty to two counts of extortion for shaking down businesses in Brooklyn. In 1991, Mr. Sater stabbed a commodities trader in the face with a broken bar glass and was sent to prison. By 1993, he was out and working a pump-and-dump stock scheme in Brooklyn.
Wolf and Beys describe, as part of their plan, Oberlander and Lerner filed a series of lawsuits over the past six years and then continued by going after Loretta Lynch herself with accusations.
Here’s how I found out: I had to reschedule a trip to California for him due to his mother being ill. The level of planning reflects his unhappiness with his marriage and his desire to furtively put money aside for a rainy day.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes spent 24 minutes questioning Sater about his past, but the twice convicted felon began with some earnestly delivered, bald-faced lies about what he termed a “drunken bar brawl” where he stabbed a man in the face with the stem of a margarita glass in Midtown Manhattan.
Sater: [I] went on to work on Wall Street had a very successful career on Wall Street as a young man unfortunately one night in a drunken bar brawl, one guy went for a beer bottle, I went for a margarita glass and that changed the trajectory of my life.