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Docs reveal Sater’s deep FBI cooperation
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Federal judge unseals ex-Sands Pt. resident’s criminal file from 1998 BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Felix Sater, a former resident of Sands Point and ex-associate of President Donald Trump, once said in an interview that his wife described living with him as “like reading next week’s newspaper today” and that just might have been true. The Russian-born businessman has had frequent appearances in the media over the past year due to his involvement in attempting to broker a Trump Tower Moscow while Trump was running for president. But last week, a federal judge in Brooklyn unsealed court documents that detail Sater’s cooperation with the FBI from 1998 to 2009 as a result of a deal made after Sater pleaded guilty to involvement in a “pump and dump” scheme, where his company inflated stock prices and sold the shares off once investors started buying in, according to court documents.
The documents were unsealed after The Intercept, an online investigative news site, requested access to them. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (DLong Beach), an assistant U.S. attorney at the time of Sater’s 2009 sentencing hearing, described Sater’s cooperation as “extraordinary both in terms of its depth and breadth” in his court testimony. “Mr. Doe’s cooperation runs a gamut that is seldom seen,” Kaminsky said on behalf of the government at the hearing. “It involves violent organizations such as Al Qaeda, it involves foreign governments, it involves Russian organized crime.” In the unsealed documents, Sater is often referred to as “Doe” or “Slater” to protect his identity from those whom he helped convict. And more specifically, Sater’s involvement included various families of La Cosa Nostra, a New York Continued on Page 93
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON.
Robert McCallin participated in the Port Washington-Manhasset Kayak Run pn Saturday. See more photos on page 82.
Port man saves neighbor, dog from house fire BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
said. The two-story home was destroyed and the one next A Port Washington man door was damaged. Port Washington firefightused a ladder to save a man from a blazing home at 14 New ers responded to the fire, St. on Friday night, fire officials where occupants were report-
edly trapped within the home. After arriving on the scene, Port Washington Fire Chief Thomas Golden was told the occupant and his dog had been rescued by a neighbor who Continued on Page 83
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