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Donald Trump, Felix Sater and the Mob: Lawyers Push to Unseal Court Documents They Say Could Show Fraud By President
Lawyers seeking to unseal documents related to the criminal past of a former business partner of President Donald Trump said in federal court on Monday that the documents may contain evidence that Trump committed fraud.
The sealed documents are from a federal case against Felix Sater, who Trump reportedly tapped as a senior advisor for his real-estate business in the 2000s even after Saters earlier role in a Mafia-linked stock scheme became public.
A fellow named Donald Trump is now president and he had a business associate named [Sater.] The public needs to know the length of their relationship and the nature of the relationship and what kind of person [Sater] is, attorney Richard Lerner said in Brooklyn federal court Monday afternoon. By allowing this regime of secrecy to continue, its facilitating what may have been fraud by President Trump.
It was unclear from the court proceeding what acts by Trump could possibly be construed as criminal. But after court ended, Lerner told Newsweek that if Trump knowingly did real estate with a convicted felon, that could constitute financial fraud.
More: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sater-mafia-mob-bayrock-russia-court-brooklyn-fraud-behar-627408
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)for Sater or others.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Or when will a decision come?