instance who is selling stinger missiles in afghanistan or what cyber criminals are up to in ukraine, i would say that sounds great but i have no idea where to start. you were a person who does know how to start. explain to me that talent. you seem i m serious. you seem to be able to find your way towards people like that and get them to trust you. well, first, let me clear up a small misconception that s been reported is that the things that i ve done in terms of national security in terms of my assistance to the government on financial crimes, whether it was mafia or whether it was financial assaults on our financial institutions by cyber criminals, or terrorists such as osama bin laden, what s most important and which has not been reported is that i starred working for u.s. intelligence way before the stock case came around.
wake of this case. in the wake of had i case. the stock fraud case. i went to russia to work on a transaction. the stock case happened in 96 which i did for about 18 months. i went to russia in 97. the what s been reported that i ran away because, that s not true. that s just not true. you go there and one of the things you do where all these different threads come together is you re working on trump moscow, right? no, no, no. we re now speaking about 1997. wa i m saying a person who have contacts in russia, you speak russian. later in your life you become a business partner with donald trump. you guys work on fort lauderdale. phoenix it, trump soho. a whole host of other projects. you end up working on trump moscow, an important project that produced the e-mails everyone knows about. it s the project a lot of people are curious about and i want to ask you about your involvement
to start. you were a person who does know how to start. explain to me that talent. you seem i m serious. you seem to be able to find your way towards people like that and get them to trust you. well, first, let me clear up a small misconception that s been reported is that the things that i ve done in terms of national security in terms of my assistance to the government on financial crimes, whether it was mafia or whether it was financial assaults on our financial institutions by cyber criminals, or terrorists such as osama bin laden, what s most important and which has not been reported is that i starred working for u.s. intelligence way before the stock case came around. so nobody came to me and said go do this for us and then you ll get out of this. what kind of person does that? how are you finding your way into these seamy underworlds to
working for u.s. intelligence way before the stock case came around. so nobody came to me and said go do this for us and then you ll get out of this. what kind of person does that? how are you finding your way into these seamy underworlds to get information the u.s. government can find useful. let me tell you the story how that happened. after i got out of clearly the shady side of wall street for about a year, i was working on very legitimate financial transactions. and i think anybody who researches me could see that i stopped in 1996 voluntarily just left because truthfully, i didn t want to do it anymore. it was disgusting, despicable and garbage. i m sorry and i very sorry that that happened. and i accept full responsibility. it was my fault and people lost money.