Trump's Crimes
Trump's Crimes is a short essay by Karl Jones speculating why it is proving so difficult for anyone to get Donald Trump's tax returns.
The essay began as a Facebook comment, and has since been revised a number of times. The current version reads:
The problem is not that Trump has so much crime to hide (although surely he does).
The problem is all the other criminals whose crimes will be exposed when Trump's crimes are exposed, and the lengths they will go to prevent this from happening.
Some of these other criminals will be wealthy powerful men; some of them will be public figures such as Senators, Congressmen, governors, mayors and attorneys general; others will be captains of finance and industry; yet others will be Mafiosi.
One of these allied criminals might even be William Barr [Steve Mnuchin, Mitch McConnell, etc.].
The name of the individual in the last sentence (William Barr, Steve Mnuchin) is in response the parent article.
In his Facebook comments, Jones uses asterisks to indicate italics: *all the other criminals*.
Allegations and evidence
Felix Sater
Felix Henry Sater /ˈseɪtər/ (born Felix Mikhailovich Sheferovsky; March 2, 1966) is a Russian-American mobster, convicted felon, real estate developer and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate conglomerate based out of New York City. Sater left Bayrock Group LLC in 2008 and has not been involved with the company for over a decade. He has subsequently been an advisor to many corporations, including The Trump Organization,[8] Rixos Hotels and Resorts, Sembol Construction, Potok (formerly the Mirax Group), and TxOil.
In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia, and became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime investigations. In 2017, Sater agreed to cooperate with investigators into international money laundering schemes.
During the 2015-16 American presidential campaign, Sater worked with Michael Cohen, former attorney for The Trump Organization, to broker a deal to build a Trump Tower Moscow, asserting to Cohen that he could boost Trump's election prospects through his Russian contacts. On June 21, 2019, Sater was issued a subpoena by the House Intelligence Committee after he refused a request to testify voluntarily. On July 9, 2019, Sater appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, but repeatedly withheld testimony and documents concerning the details of a false joint defense agreement and thus remains under subpoena.
Judge I. Leo Glasser confirmed that Sater helped the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden as he provided the telephone number of Osama bin Laden.
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