he s got quite the resume. in 1991, sater got into a bar fight and slashed a guy with a margarita glass. in 1998, sater pleaded guilty to a stock fraud scheme involving the mob. only a few years later, sater says he began working with the trumps on real estate deals. in 2015, sater e-mailed michael cohen, then-lawyer for mr. trump, and talked about how the trump tower moscow project would help mr. trump to convince america of his skills and win the white house. reporter: felix sater is the man at the center of donald trump s moscow trump tower project, and now he ll testify before congress, sharing with the world what he knows about the president s business dealings. i was trying to use this opportunity because i had tried to build trump towers in moscow as well as london and paris. reporter: lawmakers will likely grill sater on what trump
a russian born businessman claims he lead trump tower moscow negotiations he has quite the cb. he got into a bar fight and slashed a guy with a margarita glass. he pleaded guilty to a stock fraud scheme. he says he began working and he e-mailed michael cohen and the lawyer talked about how the potential trump tower moscow project would help mr. trump convince the nation of his negotiating scales and help mr. trump win the white house. according to the new york times our boy can become president of the u.s.a. i will get all of putin s team to buy in on this. i will manage the process. now the democrats control the house intelligence committee
liar, a cheat, felix sater will be on the order of that. he is somebody who in the 1990s was in business with the russian mafia, convicted as part of that, some kind of stock fraud scheme and later became an fbi informant. despite all of that, he was involved in this scheme to try to build a moscow trump tower. he is the one that michael cohen was working with to try to deal with the russians as they re trying to build this project and go through business arrangements of trying to deal with the russians to build this project in moscow. obviously those plans went on a lot longer than the president or his family ever admitted to during the campaign. it will help to underline what kind of businessman donald trump has been all these years. he has been in business with
the soviet born business man has quite a résume. he spent a year in prison for slashing a man s face in a bar fight and was convicted for his role in a stock fraud scheme. he was also remarkably an intelligence operative for the u.s. government who obtained osama bin laden s phone numbers before september 11. he partnered with trump on a string of real estate projects. in 2015, he wrote an e-mail to michael cohen vowing to build trump tower moscow with vladimir putin s help. writing, i will get putin on this program and we will get donald elected. what kind of man are you, felix sater? i guess complex to say the least. you know, i m an immigrant that came to this country at the age of 7, grew up here, went to school. right. went on to work on wall street. had a very successful career on wall street as a young man. unfortunately one night in a drunken bar brawl, one guy went
a soviet-born businessman has quite a resume. he spent a year in prison for slashing a man s face in a bar fight and was convicted for his role in a mafia-linked stock fraud scheme. he was also remarkably an intelligence operative for the u.s. government, who among other things obtained osama bin laden s phone numbers before september 11th. sater partnered with trump on a string of real estate projects. in 2015, he wrote an e-mail to michael cohen vowing to build trump tower moscow with vladimir putin s help. sater writing, he will get putin on this program and we will get donald elected. what kind of man are you, felix sater? i guess complex, to say the least. you know, i m an immigrant that came to this country at the age of 7, grew up here, went to school. right. went on to work on wall street. i had a very successful career on wall street as a young man. unfortunately, one night in a