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"Individual 2."
The text of the information points to a man named Felix Sater.

Cohen's letter, written in August 2017 to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, says, "I primarily communicated with the Moscow-based development company...through a

U.S. citizen third-party intermediary, 👉🏼Mr. Felix Sater."

The Moscow-born Sater was the managing director of the Bayrock Group, a real estate conglomerate, while the 👉🏼Trump SoHo building in Manhattan was being built.
👉🏼Bayrock was involved with the construction of the building

Sater also has a more colorful past. He was also an FBI informant in the late 1990s after pleading guilty to a $40 million 👉🏼stock fraud scheme put together by the Russian mafia.

At one point in 2015, Sater told Cohen, "Our boy (Mr. Trump) can become president of the USA and we

can engineer it." He boasted, "I will get all of 👉🏼Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process" and said, "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."
cbsnews.com/news/who-is-fe…

December 2015

💥Trump picked Mafia-linked stock fraud felon as senior adviser - 💥Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com/news/nationwor…

Felix Sater: A key figure in the Trump investigation
His name has surfaced again after former Trump attorney Michael D. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a 👉🏼Russian real estate deal. newsday.com/news/nation/sa…

Sater and Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, later crafted a plan to lift U.S. sanctions against Russia, and delivered it to Trump’s then-national security adviser, 👉🏼Michael Flynn. Flynn has since pleaded guilty to making false statements to special counsel

👉🏼Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian election-meddling. Sater was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee in December as part of its parallel investigation.

Sater has previously looked to pay for press coverage promoting his own personal interests.

Randi Newton, a columnist for the New York Observer, then owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law 👉🏼Jared Kushner, said Sater offered to pay her $1,000 a month for “take down pieces” on unspecified
👉🏼targets. Sater later said he had no recollection of that meeting.

He appears to have engaged in other underhanded 👉🏼digital smear tactics to go after a longtime legal adversary👈🏼. Using personally identifying information, he registered a number of bizarre website domain names, some of which later hosted attacks on Jody Kriss, a former

Sater business associate with whom he engaged in a years-long legal battle that continues to this day. (Sater and other defendants in the case have denied wrongdoing.) The domains included IAmAFaggot .com, IAmADirtbag .com, FecalBoy .com

CuntMan .net, and VaginaBoy . com.

thedailybeast.com/who-paid-for-t…

Despite that record, which came before he worked with Trump, Sater spent nearly a decade working with the Trump Organization in search of deals in Russia and other former Soviet republics. But on August 28, Sater made the front pages of the Times and The Washington Post,

thanks to leaked copies of e-mails that he sent in late 2015 and early 2016 to Cohen, concerning Sater’s efforts to work with a group of Russian investors to set up a flagship Trump property in the Russian capital.

In language that Cohen himself described to the

Times as “colorful,” Sater seemed nearly beside himself as he reported on his work in Moscow on behalf of Trump: nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/…

Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership
An insider describes the Bayrock Group, its links to the Trump family and its mysterious access to funds. It isn't pretty. (Sater is mentioned 89 times) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in. foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how…

Bayrock was run by two investors who would help to change Trump’s trajectory: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on seemingly bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had

pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia.

In lieu of the big banks, Bayrock helped to bring Trump back into real estate by supplying him with the equity stake he needed to entice new lenders for big projects, according to

a former Bayrock official. The biggest of those projects was the Trump SoHo, the troubled 46-story condominium and hotel that has been a target of lawsuits since it opened in 2010 and is reportedly being investigated by Mueller over whether it was financed partly by Russian money

That deal gave Trump 18 percent of the equity just for licensing his name. (In addition to Bayrock, the other partner was the Sapir family from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.) foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how…

The Ex-Spy Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier Left a Clue for Mueller
Christopher Steele told a reporter that one real-estate deal might be key to understanding the collusion case. vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/c…

Trump’s Former Business Partner Tries to Erase his Prostitution Bust From Web thedailybeast.com/trumps-busines…

Sater
He needed money so desperately upon his release, he says, that he says he started working on 👉🏼“the dark side of Wall Street,” a reference to a so-called 👉🏼“pump-and-dump” stock scheme that reportedly defrauded investors of nearly $40 million

(IMHO I feel is our current stock market )

His company, Bayrock Group, rented office space in Trump Tower. Sater says he introduced himself to Trump in 2000 and began funneling development proposals to Trump’s desk shortly thereafter.

“I would bring him deals,” Sater said.

In 2015, Trump signed a non-binding letter of intent, which promised a $4 million initial payment to the Trump Organization, to build the tallest building in the world in Moscow. In emails sent to Cohen published by the Post and the Times, Sater appears to celebrate an apparent

merger of Trump’s business and political fortunes.

Cohen also makes clear that he engaged in communication directly with the Kremlin about the proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign. His statement says he wrote to the press secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin

at the request of Felix Sater, a frequent Trump Organization associate who proposed the Trump Moscow development.

abcnews.go.com/beta-story-con…

Trump’s Letter of Intent Trump Moscow cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/image…

Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign
The Russian-born businessman says he visited Trump Tower last month for 'confidential' reasons. politico.com/story/2016/08/…

Around 1999, Sater joined Bayrock, a real estate firm that had offices in Trump Tower and pursued business ventures with Trump. Bayrock is now being rocked by allegations made in a lawsuit brought by a former executive of unexplained cash infusions from Russia and Kazakhstan and

receiving financing from a firm used by Russians “in favor with” Putin. Around 2010, Sater went to work for Trump directly, carrying a Trump Organization business card that described him as a “senior advisor to Donald Trump.”politico.com/story/2016/08/…

Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed
a separate lawsuit claimed that Trump SoHo was developed with the undisclosed involvement of convicted felons and financing from questionable sources in Russia and Kazakhstan. nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/…

The other development partner for Trump SoHo was the Sapir Organization, whose founder, Tamir Sapir, was from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In addition to receiving a licensing agreement, Mr. Trump would manage the completed condo-hotel, and he was also given a

minor equity interest in it. Emails and testimony in several lawsuits show that Mr. Sater and Mr. Arif worked closely with Mr. Trump and others in the Trump Organization. Mr. Trump was particularly taken with Mr. Arif’s overseas connections. In a deposition, Mr. Trump said that

the two had discussed “numerous deals all over the world” and that Mr. Arif had brought potential Russian investors to Mr. Trump’s office to meet him. nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/…

To help him run his real estate business, Trump’s father, Fred, picked an associate of two prominent mob families as his partner. “Decades later,” writes David Cay Johnston, “Donald Trump would also do business with the heads of those same families, though at a remove,

developing numerous business connections with an assortment of criminals.”books.google.com/books?id=uTA7D…

Enter Stone: It was Stone who led the infamous “Brooks Brothers riot” on the ground, sending Republican congressional staffers to Florida to stage phony “grassroots” protests outside the offices of state election officials. These raucous manifestations of a supposed “public

uprising” led to the suspension of a vote recount in crucial Miami-Dade county. ‘It’s insanity!’: How the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ killed the 2000 recount in Miami washingtonpost.com/history/2018/1…

When the Supreme Court stopped the recount midway in the case Bush v. Gore, the Republican majority on the court effectively supplanted the voters and appointed Bush president by fiat. As we will see, that may have not been the last time Stone affected a presidential outcome.

2004: Jerome Corsi and the Reelection of George W. Bush ——in the trenches

2008: David Bossie and the 2008 Election

David Bossie, a college dropout and former firefighter, has been a worker in the trenches for Republican issues for decades.

He was one of the first to sign on to Trump’s winning presidential campaign; indeed it was 👉🏼Bossie who recruited 👉🏼Steve Bannon to the cause (I’ve been looking for this nugget)

Bossie has prided himself in particular on being a Clinton family “researcher,” and his most

prominent book on the subject was produced in time for the 2008 election. Called "Hillary and the Politics of Personal Destruction,"

Which is the seed for “lock her up”

David Bossie, is also among the names being floated by some close to the White House. … Pence’s deputy chief of staff, Jarrod Agen, is expected to assume Ayers’ role for the vice president.”washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…

2008: Roger Stone and the Fall of Eliot Spitzer As attorney general of New York State, Eliot Spitzer had been a relentless prosecutor of local white-collar crime. Few people had better reasons to fear him than Trump, whose company, whose “University,” and whose “foundation” were

all shot through with shady business practices, if not outright criminality. (The fraudulent university was eventually shut down by the feds — Trump had to pay $26 million in restitution at the end of the 2016 campaign — and the Trump Foundation is still being scrutinized by the

New York attorney general’s office.)

Once Spitzer was elected governor, a group of 👉🏼Republican-aligned power brokers went after him, tailing him with private detectives. They eventually caught him associating with a prostitute, a scandal that forced Spitzer to resign.

In the thick of this effort was
👉🏼Stone, who may well have been tipped off by one of his own prostitute friends. Stone is a notorious swinger and philanderer who has bragged about the high-class escorts he knew. In a well-crafted documentary on the subject,

Client 9, Stone winks at the role he might have played in Spitzer’s fall from grace.

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

As the scandal was breaking, a phone call was made to Spitzer’s father’s house, threatening to bring his whole family down. The phone message was made public and the call was eventually traced to a telephone. It was Stone’s.

💥David Bossie has long been associated with an organization called 👉🏼👉🏼Citizens United, and it was this enterprise that would give the name to one of the most ill-considered decisions ever made in the history of the Supreme Court.

Campaign chair Manafort, his old friend and lobbying partner Stone, and Swift-Boater and Birther Movement’s Corsi may have all played key roles in this effort, not just to find out everything they could from WikiLeaks about its email trove — but to enlist Julian Assange as a

silent partner in Trump’s election.

2016: Erik Prince, Hillary Conspiracies, and the Seychelles Meeting

After selling Blackwater USA in 2010, Erik Prince established other mercenary ventures. Both he and his sister, Betsy DeVos, the future secretary of education, were major

donors to the 2016 Trump campaign — but Erik was otherwise all but invisible.

He could be heard on Breitbart, angrily spouting wild, unsubstantiated allegations about the Clintons, including sex slaves being held on remote islands, but that just made him another right-wing kook.

Then it slowly emerged that Prince had been playing a role behind the scenes. The one-time intern to California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher — he of extreme pro-Russian views — Prince had met privately during the 2016 transition in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, a Putin

ally and the head of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund.

vox.com/2018/3/7/17088…

George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman and a former Blackwater agent, told Mueller that he had indeed set up a meeting between Prince and Dmitriev, and had even met with Prince in New York the week before to brief him on the get-together.

This spring the New York Times

revealed that Prince, at the height of the presidential campaign, met with Don Junior and an emissary for “two wealthy Arab princes” from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to discuss their help in winning the election. nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…

All the while, Prince has been trying to convince Trump officials that the war in Afghanistan should be turned over to a private security force. He has one in mind — a new mercenary firm he would lead.

If Prince had been doing special favors for the Trump campaign behind the

scenes, could his sister’s cabinet appointment have been the payoff?

Here’s the blueprint for Erik Prince’s $5 billion plan to privatize the Afghanistan militarytimes.com/news/your-mili…

US official: Erik Prince proposed private spy network to Trump administration www-m.cnn.com/2017/12/05/pol…

Prince was also questioned by House lawmakers last month (November 2017) over reports that he met the head of a Russian investment fund in an apparent effort to set up a backchannel for Russian communication with the Trump administration, and that senior Trump officials had

authorized the meeting

“Erik Prince details Seychelles meeting with Russian banker “
www-m.cnn.com/2017/11/30/pol…

💥💥💥 1/18/2018💥💥💥
Infamous Private Paramilitary Firm Blackwater Planning Comeback. First Stop: Syria
Erik Prince, ex-Navy SEAL and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is offering Trump a way to both safeguard allies and pull troops out of the Mideast. Will he agree?

controversial security contractor Blackwater is back in the headlines now that its founder – billionaire and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince – has made the case that the United States should replace its small footprint of 2,000 troops in Syria w/ mercenaries haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

Now Russia’s take
‘We are coming’: Chilling Blackwater ad triggers fears of Trump seeking to privatize Mideast wars—— problem with this??? It is dated December 28,2018!!! 💥💥💥 google.com/amp/s/www.rt.c…

Task & Purpose Aug 20, 2018 · Allowing Erik Prince to take over the war effort s. ... NBC News reported on Friday that Prince, founder of notorious private security ... on private contractors "at the behest" of erstwhile ... taskandpurpose.com/erik-prince-af…

Erik Prince, in Kabul, pushes privatization of the Afghan war

Prince swept through the capital, meeting with influential political figures within and outside the administration of President Ashraf Ghani.

At the Pentagon, the head of the U.S. 👉🏼Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, told reporters that “I absolutely do not agree” with Prince’s contention that he could win the war more quickly and for less money with a few thousand hired guns.

In addition to such a plan violating signed agreements with the Afghan government, Votel said, “the most significant downside is that we turn our national interest over to contractors.” Quoting earlier comments by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Votel said, “I don’t think this is

a very good strategy. (October 2018) is this Mattis’ trigger??? ”washingtonpost.com/world/national…

Back in August “White House spokesperson says ‘no such proposal’ being considered” 😡😡😡 marketwatch.com/story/trump-re…

BBC Trump’s business links to the mob

The dubious friends of Donald Trump
Part 3 (you can search the others with horror)

ABC Australia
Trump/Russia Secrets, lies and useful idiots

Trump & Russia NPR Embedded explains

https://twitter.com/nlong72/status/1068519929614225409?s=21

https://twitter.com/scottmstedman/status/1087892943724138496?s=21

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