Mr. Sater said he gave Mr. Trump a fuller accounting of his history when Mr. Trump decided to run for president.
The revelations about Mr. Sater's work for the government, which included going undercover in Cyprus to catch Russian cybercriminals and passing along tips about terrorists and a possible presidential-assassination plot, provide a more nuanced view of one past associate of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Sater, who moved to the U.S. as a boy, worked on the development of the Trump SoHo condominium hotel in the late 2000s.
After Mr. Trump's election, Mr. Sater returned to the public eye when investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and in Congress delved into his pursuit, starting in the fall of 2015, of a deal to build a Trump World Tower in Moscow.
Mr. Sater's liaison at the Trump Organization was lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in part to minimize Mr. Trump's involvement in discussions about the Moscow project during the campaign, a charge that arose from Mr. Mueller's investigation.
Mr. Sater said in the interview he had actually met a Defense Intelligence Agency operative overseas earlier, in 1997, and started working with him and the Central Intelligence Agency before learning he was wanted by the FBI. Mr. Sater also provided the U.S. government with information, including serial numbers of Stinger missiles the Northern Alliance wanted to sell back to the U.S., the prosecutors wrote.
Mr. Sater said if he could do anything over, after Mr. Trump began his run for president, "I would have used the opportunity to do Trump London or Trump Paris, instead of Trump Moscow."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-trump-affiliate-secretly-worked-with-prosecutors-fbi-and-cia-for-years-11566582029?mod=hp_lead_pos4
The revelations about Mr. Sater's work for the government, which included going undercover in Cyprus to catch Russian cybercriminals and passing along tips about terrorists and a possible presidential-assassination plot, provide a more nuanced view of one past associate of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Sater, who moved to the U.S. as a boy, worked on the development of the Trump SoHo condominium hotel in the late 2000s.
After Mr. Trump's election, Mr. Sater returned to the public eye when investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and in Congress delved into his pursuit, starting in the fall of 2015, of a deal to build a Trump World Tower in Moscow.
Mr. Sater's liaison at the Trump Organization was lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in part to minimize Mr. Trump's involvement in discussions about the Moscow project during the campaign, a charge that arose from Mr. Mueller's investigation.
Mr. Sater said in the interview he had actually met a Defense Intelligence Agency operative overseas earlier, in 1997, and started working with him and the Central Intelligence Agency before learning he was wanted by the FBI. Mr. Sater also provided the U.S. government with information, including serial numbers of Stinger missiles the Northern Alliance wanted to sell back to the U.S., the prosecutors wrote.
Mr. Sater said if he could do anything over, after Mr. Trump began his run for president, "I would have used the opportunity to do Trump London or Trump Paris, instead of Trump Moscow."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-trump-affiliate-secretly-worked-with-prosecutors-fbi-and-cia-for-years-11566582029?mod=hp_lead_pos4
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