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
allowed to go forward now and the former employee who has brought that rico lawsuit against felix sater and his former company, that rico lawsuit, the guy that brought that lawsuit is now telling a reporter named tim o bryan that when felix sater and his company put together the financing for the trump projects including the trump soho they had a very specific explanation internally why they had to take some financing and turn some other foreign financing down. quote, the ex employee said in an interview that a competitor of the fl group also contacted him to invest when he took that offer to felix satyr and the chairman of his firm said they had to take fl s funds for deals
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 pressutreasury fina 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 he s getting the documents, abc
elizabeth prelogear. she comes from the solicitor general s office and there is important clerk ships on her resume. she s accomplished and well-regarded but can i point out one thing? she appears to be fluent in russian. from the national law journal today quote as an emery college under graduate, she majored in english and russian after graduating, she was a scholar in russia when she was first year at harvard law in 2006 she won a scholarship to study russian media and censorship. so if you think about the team here, watergate, mob, money laundering, criminal law, flew fluent in russian. any sense on what mueller is working on? watch this space.
news tonight sites and cauex, sources familiar with the investigation in reporting this, quote, one of several areas of interest for the investigators has been the pool of investors who helped finance construction of the trump soho building in new york city. several names associated with the financing effort have alleged ties to money laundering or russian organized crime. so that s the first reason this is about to become a big story because the senate is yanking on this thread of the story and according to senator ron widen, they are finally getting do documents that will allow them to follow that up. that s one. second reason, this is is about to become a big story is because a federal racketeering lawsuit, a rico lawsuit against felix sater s company in which he