Trumps organized crime ties bring blackmail to the White House

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Trump’s organized crime ties bring blackmail to the White House
Jefferson Morley, AlterNet
23 Apr 2017 at 06:35 ET


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The Threat

Sater’s attorney came right to the point in a February 2 letter to Arif’s attorney about $3.5 million in disputed legal fees, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

“Clearly, if this matter between Mr. Sater and Mr. Arif escalates to public litigation, the media spotlight will be negatively cast on Mr. Arif and his past relationship with President Trump and the Republic of Kazakhstan,” the attorney wrote.

In the correspondence reviewed by the Journal, Sater warned he might file another lawsuit in which he would allege wrongdoing in Arif’s dealings in the post-Soviet metals business in Kazakhstan. “The headline will be, ‘The Kazakh Gangster and President Trump,’” Sater warned.


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The Partnership

By 2007, Sater had an office on the 24th floor of Trump Tower, according to the Washington Post. In sworn testimony reviewed by the Post, Sater said he popped into Trump’s office frequently over a six-year period to talk business. He recalled flying to Colorado with Trump and said Trump once asked him to escort Donald Jr. and Ivanka around Moscow.

At the time, Arif also extolled Trump.

“He’s been very helpful to us from the beginning and he’s been very helpful in opening some doors,” he told Real Estate Weekly.

Donald Trump would prefer to forget such matters. In a 2013 deposition for a court case related to Trump Soho, Trump claimed he only met Sater a couple of times and would not recognize him.

Sater seems to feel the relationship is closer. In February, he and Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen prepared a Ukraine peace proposal for the president, although it’s not clear it ever reached the Oval Office.

The Washington vocabulary of scandal, corruption and sleaze does not quite do justice to the state of affairs that exists when the White House receives a foreign policy proposal from a felon who threatens to blackmail a former business partner (once detained in a prostitution investigation) of the president.

Some might see a moral swamp in need of drainage. In the Trump White House, it’s called business as usual.

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[BSdetect]

2. More actual evidence of deep seated corruption?

The USA has been conned into a nightmare of filthy money grabbing through power.

[spanone]

3. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼

[2naSalit]

4. K&R!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Sater might talk himself into a Russian heart attack...

From all the accounts I read about him, he is a pretty slippery hanger on, one of those convenient "go-fors" but difficult to get rid of.
Trump is adept at dumping people he is tired of, but having trouble with the Page, Sater type of guys.
They are resilient and very chatty.

[lindysalsagal]

6. Bring. It. On.

Bring it all on.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick.