Declassified docs show trump “associate” involved in trump tower Moscow was fbi informant

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“Sater went above and beyond what is expected of most cooperators and placed himself in great jeopardy in so doing,” he said. “Throughout the near ten-year period that Sater cooperated with the government, he worked continuously with a number of agents who supervised his activities.”

Over the course of the next decade, Sater obtained intelligence regarding mafia activities in New York, Russian organized crime schemes in Cyprus, and al-Qaeda activities in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Sater was credited with obtaining Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone numbers and with providing information about an assassination attempt against President George W. Bush.

Sater’s lawyers said in an Oct. 19, 2009 filing also unsealed Friday that he worked with U.S. military intelligence to covertly obtain details about a Russian anti-missile system.

News reports began appearing during the 2016 campaign detailing Sater’s real estate work with the Trump Organization and his past criminal history. In addition to his role in the stock fraud, Sater served a year in prison for assaulting a man with a cocktail glass at a Manhattan bar in 1991.

Sater was also on the radar of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of Democrats. Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Aug. 22, 2017 that Sater had links to Russian organized crime figures.

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