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Friday, June 28, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 26
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH & WELLNESS
MANORHAVEN BLVD. TO GET A $3M FACELIFT
SEEKING ANSWERS TO BUSINESS REVITALIZATION
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Sater: from chabad hero to House evader Ex-Sands Pt. resident fails to show for hearing on Moscow project BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Felix Sater, a former Sands Point resident and past associate of President Donald Trump, failed to appear for a closed-door interview with the House intelligence committee last Friday. Sater told The Washington Post before the scheduled interview that he would answer every question that he was asked. The New York Times reported that committee members had already gathered in the Capitol meeting room when they received notice from Sater’s lawyer, Robert S. Wolf, that he would be unable to attend due to health reasons but was willing to reschedule. Sater told Politico that he was feeling ill and had slept through his alarm on Friday morning. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (DCalifornia), the chairman of the intelligence committee, said in a brief interview after the canceled hearing that a subpoena would be
issued calling for Sater to appear. Sater became central to investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election due to communications obtained between him and Trump’s former attorney, Michael D. Cohen. Messages between the pair revealed that negotiations for a proposed Trump Tower Moscow continued into June 2016 after Trump had been become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Cohen had originally testified that negotiations had ended in January 2016. Cohen and Sater’s exchange of communications about a Trump Tower in Moscow and an effort to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were outlined in Justice Department special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report released in April. The report said the initial communication about the Moscow Continued on Page 69
PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS
Members of Schreiber High School’s class of 2019 toss their caps as they graduate.
Schreiber High School’s class of 2019 graduates BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
School’s class of 2019 on Tuesday night. And it seemed as if the The sun came through and theme of the commencement the rain cleared just in time for was to remind students to be the graduation of the almost themselves, because as retiring 400 students in Schreiber High Board of Education President
Karen Sloan said, “everyone else is taken.” Schreiber High School Principal Ira Pernick opened the ceremony by sharing his fascination with superheroes Continued on Page 20
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