Donald Trump, Tevik Arif and Felix Sater
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevfik_Arif) Born Tofic Arifov in Cambul in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in May 1953. He received an international relations degree from a Moscow university. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Arif worked for the USSR’s Ministry of Commerce and Trade for 17 years. He served as the deputy director of its Department of Hotel Management. He began developing property in Brooklyn, first redeveloping Loehmann’s Seaport Plaza, a waterfront shopping center in Sheepshead Bay. Arif was originally the sole employee of Bayrock, later hiring Felix Sater as managing director.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater) Felix Sater was a senior advisor to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization when construction of the Trump SoHo began in 2006. He played a major role throughout the process of the building's construction, and remained managing director of Bayrock Group when the Trump SoHo project was completed in 2010. The building is a $450 million, 46-story, 39-unit hotel condominium located at 246 Spring Street in SoHo, New York City. The project was a collaboration between The Trump Organization, Bayrock Group LLC and Tamir Sapir.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamir_Sapir) Tamir Sapir was an American businessman and investor from the former Soviet republic of Georgia who made millions bartering fertilizer and oil with the Soviets in the 1980s; he took most of his money and put it into New York real-estate. He was included in The 400 Richest Americans List of September 2008 (#246), with a net worth of $1.9 billion. In March 2010, he ranked 721st on Forbes' list of billionaires, with a net worth of $1.4 billion.
in 1998, Felix Sater pleaded guilty for his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme. In exchange for his guilty plea, he agreed to become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime. As a result of his assistance, Sater's court records were sealed for 10 years by Loretta Lynch, then the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (83rd Attorney General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015 to succeed Eric Holder).
In late January 2017, Sater met with Ukrainian politician Andrey Artemenko and Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, at the Loews Regency in Manhattan to discuss a plan to lift sanctions against Russia. The proposed plan would require that Russian forces withdraw from eastern Ukraine and that Ukraine hold a referendum on whether Crimea should be "leased" to Russia for 50 or 100 years. Sater gave Cohen a written proposal in a sealed envelope that was delivered to then-National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn in early February. On 20 February 2017 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected Russia "leasing" Crimea from Ukraine claiming "we cannot rent from ourselves".
Since 1998 Felix Sater has been an FBI informant. The FBI investigation of organizd crime is still an active investigation. We know that since 1983, Trump Tower has been bugged. Every document, every source, every bit of information the FBI and Dept of Justice have accumulated in over 30 years of investigation of one of the largest criminal organisations worldwide have for years now been turned over the moment they were received.
On 29 December 2016, the White House sanctioned the FSB and several other Russian companies for helping the Russian military intelligence service, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), to allegedly disrupt and spread disinformation during the 2016 US presidential election. In addition, the State Department also declared 35 Russian diplomats and officials persona non grata and denied Russian government officials access to two Russian-owned installations in Maryland and New York.
The Trump issue in the US is unprecedented. The electorate, by a moderate but firm majority never supported him. He lost the popular vote by millions. His own base is falling apart, now more a sign of American failures, insanity, extremism and decades of propagandization.
https://youtu.be/1bEdMuKq30I = ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians
The 45-minute documentary was produced by Zembla TV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zembla_(TV_series)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailov_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solntsevskaya_Bratva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service
Fake News?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/31/how-trump-became-the-russian-mafias-bitch/
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/03/27/fbi-cant-tell-trump-russia/
https://zembla.vara.nl/
