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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 11:04 PM Jun 2017

Breaking News: Lawyers Push to Unseal Court Documents They Say Could Show Fraud By President

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 Sater’s 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, it’s 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

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Breaking News: Lawyers Push to Unseal Court Documents They Say Could Show Fraud By President (Original Post) MelissaB Jun 2017 OP
A Department of Justice lawyer told Judge Pamela Chen that unsealing the documents could be unsafe MelissaB Jun 2017 #1
Unsafe, WOW! N/T SonofDonald Jun 2017 #2
So what did the judge order? sharedvalues Jun 2017 #3

MelissaB

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1. A Department of Justice lawyer told Judge Pamela Chen that unsealing the documents could be unsafe
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 11:11 PM
Jun 2017

for Sater or others.

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