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HOLIDAY GIFT, PARTY GUIDE
PORT NORTH REGULATES RENTALS
NIFA CUTS $18 FROM COUNTY BUDGET
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Associate of Trump selling Port home
HAPPY HANUKKAH
Questioned in Russia probe; reports BY LU K E TORRANCE Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer and business associate of President Trump, is selling his home in Sands Point. The home, located at 94 Sands Point Road, is being listed for $2.5 million. Sater is known locally for his work with Chabad of Port Washington; he was named their man of the year in 2010 and 2014. But Sater is best known around the country for his connections to Trump. Sater has worked with Trump for many years, going back to when Trump was more concerned with real estate than politics. Sater helped to run the real estate development company Bayrock Group, the firm behind Trump SoHo and several other Trump projects during the 2000s. Most notable of these was a project to build a highrise for Trump in Moscow.
The plans never came to fruition, but the connections made with the Russian government would come back into play a decade later. In November 2015, several months into Trump’s campaign for president, Sater sent a series of emails to Trump’s lawyer, according to a report in the New York Times. In the emails, the Times reported, he bragged about his connections to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in one email to Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, according to the Times report. “I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this.” The emails caught the eye of Justice Department officials investigating possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign, the Times reported. Sater testified before the House Continued on Page 67
PHOTO COURTESY OF VILLAGE OF MANORHAVEN
Manorhaven Mayor Jim Avena and Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth in front of the village’s holiday decorations.
De Giorgio proposes waterfront moratorium BY LU K E TORRANCE Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio has proposed a six-month moratorium on development
on a portion of waterfront along Manhasset Bay in Port Washington. The area that would be covered by the moratorium stretches along Manhasset Bay, just off of Main Street,
between La Parma restaurant and the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club. The proposed moratorium, which would last 180 days, would prevent the approval of Continued on Page 68
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