It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: ucanthandlethetruth
So , the Obvious Clues to a Clinton /Russian Collusion Connection are to be Ignored here in Favor of the Continued Political Bashing of a Man Not Convicted ?
Donald Trump listened skeptically as his labor consultant bragged in early 1981 about connections to New York’s underworld.
Daniel Sullivan, who dealt with labor problems at Trump’s construction sites, was a 42-year-old giant of a man with great charm and a criminal record. He told Trump he was tight not only with leaders of unions, some of them fronts for the mob, but also with the FBI.
Trump was dubious. “He was . . . a big storyteller,” Trump recently told The Washington Post. “He portrayed himself to be the closest person on earth to the FBI.”
It turned out Sullivan was telling the truth. One day in April 1981, he walked into Trump’s Manhattan office with two men in suits. They were FBI agents, and they wanted to talk to Trump about organized crime.
Trump welcomed them in.
That meeting came at a pivotal time early in Trump’s career, when he was trying to establish himself as a Manhattan developer and Atlantic City casino operator.
Daniel P. Sullivan, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who helped track down John Dillinger and later had a long career fighting organized crime in Miami, died Sunday of heart failure. He was 76 years old and lived in Miami.
A native of Washington and a graduate of Georgetown University there, Mr. Sullivan joined the F.B.I. in 1932 and worked for 10 years in San Francisco, New York, El Paso and Chicago.
... Mr. Sullivan left the investigation bureau in 1942 and went into the private security business in Miami. By the late 1940's, he had become a recognized authority on major organized crime figures, having compiled the most thorough set of files on criminals in the Southeast.
...In his crusade, he announced the names of suspected racketeers and corrupt government officials in speeches and on Miami radio stations on a program called ''The Sinister Blot.''
Mr. Sullivan later presented evidence on organized crime activities to the United States Senate, which helped bring about the hearings on organized crime led by Senator Estes Kefauver in 1950 in Miami.
originally posted by: ucanthandlethetruth
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: ucanthandlethetruth
So , the Obvious Clues to a Clinton /Russian Collusion Connection are to be Ignored here in Favor of the Continued Political Bashing of a Man Not Convicted ?
What on earth depicted here gives you the impression I'm bashing the man?
I'm trying to show this whole thing has been a distraction and he's been working as a deep asset for quite some time. That they knew terrible crimes had been committed and patriots needed to take back the country.
I think Trump was selected to be that man and I'm trying to show circumstantial evidence and theory to make my argument.
Clinton couldn't win.
originally posted by: snarfbot
What would the next step be?
originally posted by: ucanthandlethetruth
originally posted by: snarfbot
What would the next step be?
They permitted Paul Manafort into the Trump campaign without warning him the FBI was investigating him for his pro-Russia Ukraine group lobbying work since 2014. But it seems someone did...
They name Russians tied to Trump, but they are also tied to Clinton. In many cases, more tied.
If it was all a psyop to get the guilty parties to unmask themselves and now the Russia Russia Russia mantras turns into an investigation of the actual Russian collusion during the Obama-Clinton era "Russian reset" period, (Uranium One and Skolkovo) then all of this would make more sense to me.
So yeah, if the next step becomes turn in the investigation into a counter-investigation, I will be more convinced Trump was selected to put on this show for the masses to help root out corrupted government officials (past and present).
Time will tell.
originally posted by: [post=24280466]snarfbot
The thing is you cant really tell if that outcome was the result of a deliberate sting, or just what happens as a matter of course when crimes are uncovered.
For the sake of those involved, they had better hope they have and will produce upon subpoena a very high-level DOJ authorization for that, specifically noting that Sater was authorized to participate in multi-billion dollar notional frauds as a top echelon level informant – and as concealment fraud and conspiracy are ongoing crimes they had better hope that’s open-ended, as it should be self-evident that if it’s a crime to hide your conviction and misuse the sealing to facilitate it, it’s a crime to conspire to do so or to aid and abet it or act to conceal it (ask the Mayer Brown partner just convicted of securities fraud for helping REFCO hide its corrupt books) and operation of an association in fact pursuant to a scheme to do so, a single scheme, let alone the others we’re uncovering in the Eastern District, see supplement, creates a cause of action in enterprise corruption).
Perhaps they reached such an agreement with you to throw the case against us in one of the many secret ex parte proceedings we’ve just found out about. Perhaps they didn’t. It doesn’t matter, because if you wish to testify they did not, you are a fact witness and off the bench; and in any event, no sane person, let alone objective, informed person, would believe anything other than the apparent possibility of this court’s active, collusive, criminal participation in what our coming amendment hereto will detail more fully is enterprise corruption, including its cover-up, the only question how far and to what extent it suffuses the Eastern District and the former AUSA’s there now in private practice.
Through this motion, Forbes and Behar (together, “Intervenors”) seek to vindicate the public’s right of access to the record in this proceeding, which includes documents critical to understanding a story of pressing political consequence: President Donald Trump’s connection to Felix H. Sater, who is well known as a conduit to Russian oligarchs and organized crime. For example, on February 19, 2017, The New York Times reported that, just after President Trump’s inauguration, Sater played a key role in funneling a Kremlin-approved, back-channel proposal for a Ukraine-Russia peace deal through President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to then-national security adviser Michael T. Flynn. See Langford Decl. Ex. D. The nature of Sater’s connection to President Trump’s inner circle, however, is far from clear. From 2003 to 2010, Sater worked directly with Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization on real-estate development deals around the world out of an office in Trump Tower. By 2010, Sater’s business card identified Sater as a “senior advisor” to Mr. Trump. Yet in 2013, Mr. Trump testified that he wouldn’t recognize Sater if he were in the same room. That testimony, however, is contradicted by substantiated reports evidencing the relationship between Mr. Trump and Sater
Then-Attorney General Nominee Lynch explained that, under the agreement, Sater worked with the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the F.B.I., “providing information crucial to national security and the conviction of over 20 individuals, including those responsible for committing massive financial fraud and members of La Cosa Nostra.
He also reportedly cooperated with the C.I.A. to track down Stinger missiles on the weapons black market in Central Asia.
...Just last fall, Sater himself explained that his cooperation included purchasing missiles in Afghanistan; “play[ing] a major role in President Clinton’s bombing of [Osama bin Laden’s] camp in ’98”; and hunting down terrorist operatives and coordinating bombing targets in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Over the next five years, Bayrock, Sater, and the Trump Organization executed real-estate licensing deals all over the country during which time Sater “met with Trump and Trump’s staff ‘on a constant basis’ to discuss possible deals." By 2007, Bayrock reportedly had helped finance more than $2 billion worth of Trump-branded deals. The public record shows that Bayrock and Sater helped the Trump Organization tap into funds connected to Russian investors to fund those deals. Sater and Bayrock, for instance, helped lead the development of Trump SoHo, “broker[ing] a $50 million investmentby an Icelandic firm preferred by wealthy Russians ‘in favor with’ President Vladimir V. Putin." According to Mr. Trump, Bayrock also brought potential Russian investors to Trump’s office to discuss deals all over the world, including “Trump International Hotel and Tower Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, etc., Poland, Warsaw.” In 2005, the Trump Organization entered a 5 one-year deal with Bayrock to develop a project in Moscow. Sater, in turn, “located a group of interested Russian investors, as well as a possible site for a luxury high-rise.” In addition, Sater accompanied Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. to Moscow in 2006, where they stayed at the Hotel National Moscow opposite the Kremlin and “connect[ed] with potential partners over the course of several days.” Sater later testified that, after trips to Russia, he would “pop [his] head into Mr. Trump’s office and tell him, you know, ‘Moving forward on the Moscow deal.’ And he would say, ‘All right.’” Sater eventually left Bayrock and joined the Trump Organization in 2010. There, Mr. Trump “allowed Sater to use a business card identifying himself as a senior advisor to the Trump Organization.” Although Sater apparently left the Trump Organization shortly thereafter, he is reported to have been working on a plan for a Trump Tower Moscow as recently as the fall of 2015.
In the now publically available transcript, an Assistant U.S. Attorney confirms Sater’s cooperation with the government, providing even greater detail: [Sater’s] cooperation was of an extraordinary depth and breadth, almost unseen, at least in this United States Attorney’s Office. He cooperated, unlike some cooperators who cooperate within one type of organized crime family or over one type of crime, [Sater]’s cooperation runs a gamut that is seldom seen. It involves violent organizations such as Al Qaeda, it involves foreign governments, it involves Russian organized crime. And, most particularly, it involves various families of La Cosa Nostra. By that specifically I mean an individual on the ruling board of the Genovese crime family, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, a soldier in the Gambino crime family, the list goes on and on. . . .
Now, at the time of the sealing in 1998 and through the beginning of 2008, [Sater] worked in a proactive capacity actively
aiding grand jury investigations that involved surreptitious recordings of individuals as well as other undercover actions.
. . .
And his cooperation was not just the type of cooperation not to be noticed. It shut down an enterprise that shut off the valve to tens of millions of dollars.
Sater, a Brooklyn resident like Arif, was born in Russia in 1966. He reportedly emigrated with his family to the United States in the mid-1970s and settled in “Little Odessa.” It seems that his father, Mikhael Sheferovsky (aka Michael Sater), may have been engaged in Russian mob activity before he arrived in the United States. According to a certified U.S. Supreme Court petition, Felix Sater’s FBI handler stated that he “was well familiar with the crimes of Sater and his (Sater’s) father, a (Semion) Mogilevich crime syndicate boss.” A 1998 FBI report reportedly said Mogilevich’s organization had “approximately 250 members,” and was involved in trafficking nuclear materials, weapons, and more, as well as money laundering. (See below.) But Michael Sater may have been less ambitious than his son. His only reported U.S. criminal conviction came in 2000, when he pled guilty to two felony counts for extorting Brooklyn restaurants, grocery stores, and clinics. He was released with three years’ probation. Interestingly, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York who handled that case at the time was Loretta Lynch, who succeeded Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General in 2014. Back in 2000, she was also overseeing a budding informant relationship and a plea bargain with Michael’s son Felix, which may help to explain the father’s sentence.
-Ralph Scopo, 57, a soldier in the Colombo family and former president of the concrete workers union who faces 306 years.
The Division, as part of its continuing investigation, has monitored the status of a federal racketeering indictment which alleges, among other things,· that sixteen defendants, named therein, arranged for S & A Concrete Company, Inc. ( "S & A Concrete) and its affiliates to be the main beneficiaries of a bid-rigging scheme. The indictment alleges that S & A Concrete was secretly mmed by Nicholas Auletta, an associate of the Genovese crime family, Anthony Salerno, the boss of the Genovese crime family, who are named as defendants in the indictment, and others. As concerns the scheme, the indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to determine which concrete construction companies would be permitted to bid for concrete superstructure construction subcontracts, valued at more than $2 1 000,000, ;.. in the Borough of Manhattan. The indictment further alleges that the defendants determined which concrete construction company would be permitted to obtain the subcontract in advance of the opening of bids for sixteen concrete superstructure construction projects. The defendants, according to the indictment, were able to enforce their bid-rigging by threatening stoppage of the concrete supply to the various concrete superstructure job contractors. The indictment specifically identifies one of those projects as being Trump Plaza, Trump's luxury cooperative apartment complex located at 167 E. 61st Street, New York City, New York. The matter, at this time, is pending trial.
The Financial Times reported Thursday morning that Felix Sater, former business partner of President Donald Trump with deep ties to the Mafia and Russian government, is cooperating in an international investigation into an alleged money-laundering network.
The documents and interviews provide a detailed account of the money’s winding global trail — via offshore shell companies and a bank linked to terrorism financing — into the United States. Its origin can be traced to a single stash of roughly $440 million connected to a notorious fraud case involving Kazakhstani billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov. Last year, the fugitive banker was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a Kazakh court on charges that included embezzling billions of dollars from the country’s BTA Bank, which he formerly headed.
... Documents filed in court show that, between 2012 and 2014, Ilyas and Elvira were helped with their U.S. investments by Felix Sater, the former Trump advisor, and another former Trump Organization employee, Daniel Ridloff.
originally posted by: XAnarchistX
people trying to make excuses for all of Trumps past(present) and future behavior as him being an intelligence agent to gather information on the "Deep State" is further participating on the level of Lunacy surrounding Trump's idolatry