Felix Sater still plans to appear before Congress this month, but now he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee about two weeks later than expected.
A committee spokesperson blamed scheduling issues, telling The Hill that the interview will now take place later this month, on March 27, and that Sater "continues to cooperate with the committee."
The public hearing — a rarity for a committee that typically conducts its investigative work behind closed doors — is expected to focus primarily on Sater’s involvement in efforts during the 2016 presidential campaign to build a Trump real estate property in Moscow.
Sater, a longtime business associate of Trump who served as managing director for the New York-based real estate firm the Bayrock Group, worked with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen on the Moscow project, which never came to fruition.
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Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to Congress about discussions within the Trump Organization to build the Trump property in Moscow, as part of a deal to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. In particular, Cohen admitted that the talks extended as late as June 2016 — six months later than he previously told the House and Senate Intelligence panels.
Cohen has said Trump did not direct him to lie to Congress but that he did so in order to protect his former boss.
Cohen has also reportedly given documents to the House Intelligence Committee to back up his public claim that his congressional statement was changed after Trump’s personal attorneys reviewed it. Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow has vehemently denied that the president’s lawyers changed or edited the statement about the duration of the Trump Moscow discussions.
House Intelligence panel postpones interview with Trump business associate Felix Sater (The Hill)