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Friday, April 26, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 17
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH & MTA CHAIR RIDES PANELISTS TOUT BENEFITS WELLNESS THE LIRR PORT LINE OF IMMIGRATION FOR NASSAU PAGES 35-46
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Sater strong presence in Mueller report
MAZEL TOV
Ex-Sands Pt. resident said Trump Moscow deal could boost campaign BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Felix Sater, a former resident of Sands Point, had an idea that he could secure not only a Trump Tower in Moscow but also the presidency for Donald Trump. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, released last Thursday, illustrated a long-winded attempt by Sater and Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, to arrange “candidate Trump’s” visit to Moscow and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater said in an email to his childhood friend, Cohen, on Nov. 3, 2015. “Putin gets on stage with Donald for a ribbon cutting for Trump Moscow, and Donald owns the republican nomination. And possibly beats Hillary and our boy is in.”
A report from New York Magazine said that Cohen and Sater have been friends since the pair were teenagers. Communications about the Trump Tower project in Moscow, once believed to have halted in January 2016, continued into June of that year, after Trump had been declared the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Emails between Sater and Cohen reveal that there were plans for Trump to visit Moscow after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in July 2016. During the negotiations over the “Moscow Project,” which failed to materialize, Trump denied to the media having anything to do with Russia on a number of occasions. Shortly after one of his public denials in summer 2016, Cohen told Mueller’s office, Trump requested a status update on the project. The report said that the Trump Continued on Page 63
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Chabad Hebrew School students presenting the Hebrew School anthem with dance and movement presentation at the Chabad’s 28th anniversary concert dinner.
Ed board President Sloan will not seek re-election BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
president for the last decade, is not one of them. After 12 years on the school Four candidates are run- board and serving as president ning for two seats on the Port for the last 10, she will be stepWashington Board of Educa- ping down. The four candidates on the tion, and Karen Sloan, board
upcoming ballot for a threeyear term are Emily Beys, who is seeking re-election, Jonathan Geisler, Deborah AbramsonBrooks and Robert Young. In a telephone interview, Continued on Page 74
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