Sater Testifies Before Senate Intel Committee

News  |  Apr 4, 2018

UPDATE: BuzzFeed News: 

Sater spent approximately seven hours speaking with committee staff behind closed doors. “I am happy to fully cooperate with any investigation that my government is conducting,” Sater said after the interview.

Senate Investigators Interviewed A Former Trump Business Associate Who Tried To Get Him A Moscow Deal For 7 Hours (BuzzFeed News)


Felix Sater is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors today. 

Lawmakers did not comment on Sater's visit to the Hill, but investigators are likely to focus on Sater's involvement in a potential Trump Tower Moscow deal, his correspondence with Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen, and his role in delivering a Ukrainian peace proposal to the administration. 

BuzzFeed News reports Sater's finances also are of interest. 

The committee recently asked the Treasury Department for financial information on Sater and his real estate firm, Bayrock Group LLC, which did deals with the Trump Organization in the early 2000s. In a letter to Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network dated Dec. 7, the committee asked for any potential suspicious activity reports and other bank documents on Sater, Bayrock, and other people and businesses. Banks must report to the Treasury transactions that have the characteristics of money laundering or other financial wrongdoing, but the reports themselves are not evidence of a crime — many of the transactions are legal.

It’s unclear whether FinCen has turned over any documents related to Sater, but it has identified 25 suspicious activity reports associated with his financial transactions, sources say.

Full story: Senate Investigators Interview A Former Trump Business Associate Who Tried To Get Trump A Deal In Moscow (BuzzFeed News)