Posted on 02/08/2016 1:40:52 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records.
Trump had worked with Felix Sater previously during the man's stint as an executive at Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate development firm that partnered with Trump on numerous projects after renting office space from the Trump Organization. But Sater's past was not widely known at the time because he was working as a government cooperator on mob cases and the judge overseeing Sater's own case kept the proceedings secret. After Sater's criminal history and past ties to organized crime came to light in 2007, Trump distanced himself from Sater.
Less than three years later, however, Trump tapped Sater for a business development role that came with the title of senior adviser to Donald Trump. Sater received Trump Organization business cards and was given an office within the Trump Organization's headquarters, on the same floor as Trump's own.
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To answer your question, the truth is, damned near all of them:
“Eight of the Republican presidential hopefuls, Trump, Cruz, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, and Jim Gilmore said in financial disclosures that were largely filed between June and August last year that they had owned Goldman funds or Goldman stock, and in some cases both. The disclosures mostly cover the period from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of last year.â€
Find me a major bank that hasn’t come under investigation or been fined. There aren’t any. Yeah, I know, “but Cruz’s wife worked for Goldman!”
So?
Davis Barton is the chief executive of Glenn Beck’s ‘Mercury One’ charity, and he is now Ted Cruz’s chief officer for the Ted Cruz PAC, Keep the Promise.
Mark Levin fiancée’s son works in Sen. Ted Cruz’s Senate office. Mark Levin is an adamant supporter of Cruz.
For Trump......every knock is a boost.
Exactly.
BTW...
NEW HAMPSHIRE
GOP primary:
Trump 31%
Rubio 17
Cruz 14
Kasich 10
Bush 7
Fiorina 5
Christie 4
Carson 3 ...
(CNN/WMUR/UNH tracking poll, 2/4-8)
~~Go Trump Go~~
Then continue reading to the part where Trump brings him back, now knowing the situation.
Yeah, can’t make America great without ex-cons. ....maybe ex.
Do you care about what Cruz’s staffers do?
New York values at work.
Trump’s lawyer still likes to issue terrorizing threats to journalists...
Trump’s lawyer then changed tactics, lobbing insults and threatening a lawsuit if a story was published.
“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very f*cking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f*cking disgusting. You understand me?”
“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up... for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet... you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.
Exactly right; and lots of people thought Bernie Madolf ws a great guy, too.
Its going to be fun seeing Cruz come in FOURTH.
I do.
I sold my drilling company in 2013 and just bought the rigs and pipe back for about 20% of what I sold it for.
And I sent on the board of a nice sized public O&G operator.
So, unlike Trump, I actually make money, even at $30 oil.
It’s a shame that Trump Mortgage went under. If it had remained solvent, then perhaps The Donald would not have had to get in bed with those big ol’ Wall Street Banks!
From Time Magazine: “In April 2006, Trump announced that, after years in the real estate business, he was launching a mortgage company. He held a glitzy press conference at which his son Donald Jr. predicted that Trump Mortgage would soon be the nation’s No. 1 home-loan lender. Trump told CNBC, “Who knows more about financing than me?” Apparently, plenty. Within a year and a half, Trump Mortgage had closed shop. The would-be lending powerhouse was done in by timing (the housing market cratered in 2007) and ironically enough, given Trump’s Apprentice TV show, poor hiring. The executive Trump selected to run his loan company, E.J. Ridings, claimed to have been a top executive at a prestigious investment bank. In reality, Ridings’ highest role on Wall Street was as a registered broker, a position he held for a mere six days.”
And he picks the best and brightest, lol.
Source: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2068227_2068229_2068342,00.html
As compared to Hillary and her staff and advisers? While I do not excuse it, it may be hard to find anyone at that level who is not tainted...
At least the guy has held a real job, unlike Cruz.
I’m curious: why the religious terms when defending Trump?
To ignore and excuse is not the same as to demolish...
Yep. America is going to hell and these guys are the most efficient at helping us get there.
And this ex-wife now admits that was divorce talk, and you know that, but you lie anyway.
He certainly got favorable terms to keep from exposing the sheer stupidity of the deals.
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