concerned about felix sater s mob ties at the end of 2007 and yet, three years after that, sater continues as a consultant to the company and a decade later still in contact with the president s personal attorney. in terms of the question again about whether this is not just association but related to the current stuff, am i right one of the people bob mueller brought on is somebody that prosecuted sater. he was part of team that went after that whole crew that was doing pump and dump scheming, so yes. tim o bryan at bloomberg view. the story will post early tomorrow morning. thank you. thank you, rachel. good to be here. thank you. we ll be right back. stay with us.
sentence him in conjunction with that $40 million stock fraud. think didn t sentence him with it after they got his guilty plea, they didn t sentence him for more than a decade. at the end of the decade, he didn t get jail time but paid a fine. there is all sorts of interesting reports about what he did during that decade and why the government waited a decade to sentence him and why at the end of it they didn t put him in prison even though they got a guilty plea for a mob related $40 million swindle. i mean, there was a bunch of there have been a bunch of interesting stories about what happened in that decade. there was the story about him knowing about stinger missiles that were for sale on the black market in russia. stinger missiles, the shoulder fired missiles that can take down a helicopter and airport, the ones that the u.s. famously covertly supplied to fight the russians in afghanistan. he supposedly told u.s. authorities about a bunch of stinger missiles being for sale on
story, the trump business story before, it s about to become a bigger and much more familiar story. number one, today senator on the intelligence committee announced he s giving up a hold he placed on the trump administration s nominee. he says he s giving up the hold because the financial crimes unit at the treasury finally agreed to hand over on the trump russia case. they agreed to hand over the financial records they have at treasury which may be relevant to the trump russia investigation. ron widen today telling us he got briefed this morning by the department on documents getting transmitted from treasury over to the senate. senator telling us quote, i believe these documents will be sufficient to start following the money. by which he means quote, financial connections between trump associates in russia and trump s own business dealings with russian interests. and reporting on those developments today and ron widen dropping the hold and saying
that s obviously controversial. there is tons of litigation about that. there is also the matter that the prosecutors kept so much so secret about this case for so long. that was the point of controversy when loretta lynch moved up from the prosecutor s office to become attorney general and litigation about the secrecy about this case, as well. but now this story that has been intriguing from the very beginning, right? this story that s been an interesting wall street story, an interesting new york story, an interesting mob informant story, an interesting russia money laundering story, an interesting law enforcement story now has been already intriguing and lots of levels but now it s about to become a big national politics story because in that decade between the mob guys getting arrested, the indictment, in that decade between those guys getting picked up because of that fraud case, in that decade between those arrests, and felix sater pleading guilty to charges in the scheme, in tha
secret about this case for so long. that was the point of controversy when loretta lynch moved up from the prosecutor s office to become attorney general and litigation about the secrecy about this case, as well. but now this story that has been intriguing from the very beginning, right? this story that s been an interesting wall street story, an interesting new york story, an interesting mob informant story, an interesting russia money laundering story, an interesting law enforcement story now has been already intriguing and lots of levels but now it s about to become a big national politics story because in that decade between the mob guys getting arrested, the indictment, in that decade between those guys getting picked up because of that fraud case, in that decade between those arrests, and felix sater pleading guilty to charges in the scheme, in that decade between him pleading guilty and