more than 25 mob prosecutions including really high profile ones. he managed to get a long time mobster to testify against john gotti. he got the same guy to come out of witness protection to testify against vinnie. he was involved in the prosecution of one-time trump business partner felix sater for a mob connected fraud scheme to which felix sater pled guilty. so after quarrels and then wiseman, we then learned about another muller hire, michael was hired out of the justice department. when hired, the former general of the united states told the washington post that he is quote the most brilliant and most knowledgeable federal criminal lawyer in america, period. bob muller added an experienced justice department trial attorney named lisa paige wired magazine had an interesting
show, andrew is a veteran of more than 25 mob prosecutions including really high profile ones. he managed to get a long tieme mobster to testify against john gotti. he got the same guy to come out of witness protection to testify against vinnie. he was involved in the prosecution of one-time trump business partner felix sater for a mob connected fraud scheme to which felix sater pled guilty. so after quarrels and then wiseman, we then learned about another muller hire, michael was hired out of the justice department. when hired, the former general of the united states told the washington post that he is quote the most brilliant and most knowledgeable federal criminal lawyer in america, period.
he s getting the documents, abc news tonight sites excuse me, 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 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 partnered with donald trump, that rico lawsuit has been
partnered with donald trump, that rico lawsuit has been 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 ttim o bryan th 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 they were doing with trump because that investment firm was
her name is is elizabeth preloegar. 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 graduatin 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 w fluent in russian. any sense on what mueller is