is a russian born, right, felix stater, someone trump has tried to distance himself from repeatedly. tell us more about him and how he was involved in all this. sure. he s a very colorful figure who had worked on trump projects going back into the early 2000s. he s a guy who had served some jail time for a barroom fight in the 1990s and then e ppled guil for his role in a mafia-related stock fraud in 1998. we should note his sentencing in that case was delayed for many years while he served as cooperating witness assisting the fbi and the cia on various issues of national security and organized crime. it was him who wanted trump to g to moscow. what was that all about? we understand there are e-mails which we ll probably learn more about i would imagine as congress reviews e-mails and robert mueller gets a hold of them as well, but we understand
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
stock fraud part of it and also would quote avail themselves of the muscle offered when it came to settling disputes that arousal in the course of this crime. it was a very mobbed up enterprise but not just the italian mob. remember the new york post headline was good fellas. they mean it wasn t just the italian mob. this scam according to the feds and according to the arrest sheet was a joint operation between the italian mob and the russian mob. and the russian mobsters according to prosecutors, they came in handy for this pump and dump scheme in particular because they were the ones who had great access to offshore bank accounts. and they were the ones who had great money laundering skills and so they were the ones who had to be involved in this thing
borscht boys and good fellas. one of these so-called borscht boys was felix satter who had done prison time. he had broken a margarita class. he smashed the glass and took the stem of the glass and jammed it into a guy s face. the guy needed 110 stitches to hold his face together after felix got done with him. so felix sater did a year in prison for that assault but it was interesting when he and others got picked up in the mob stock scheme years later in 2000, this $40 million fraud with all those marnamed mobster it s interesting, felix sater didn t go to prison for that. he pled guilty but they didn t sentence him in conjunction with that $40 million stock fraud.
that s the kind of financial fraud that is hard to commit alone, if you think about it, right? one person can rarely do enough con artist touting to push up the price of a junk stock. you need a bunch of people working on this in concert. it has to be an organized crime. and it dd become an organized crime activity. the guys arrested in and named in the indictment back in 2000 included the brother-in-law of sammy the bull from the gambino crime family, and another guy from the bonanno crime family and from the genovese. all of these italian mafia figures were in the stock fraud and availed themselves of the muscle when it came to settling disputes that arose in the course of this crime. it was a mobbed up enterprise but it wasn t just the italian