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Soviet-born Donald Trump adviser Felix Sater: 'Send 'em to jail' if Robert Mueller finds collusion - ABC News

posted onMarch 17, 2018
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Article snippet: Felix Sater is a lot of things. One of them, he says, is misunderstood. The Soviet-born American businessman, who says he was a “senior advisor to presidential campaign. “I know how to play it, and we will get this done,” Sater wrote to Trump attorney and confidant Michael Cohen, his childhood friend, in emails published by The Washington Post and The New York Times. “Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA, and we can engineer it.” The project was abandoned, but as federal investigators launched a wide-ranging probe of alleged Russsian interference in the 2016 election including possible connections to Trump’s campaign and personal businesses, Sater quickly found himself caught in the dragnet. Now, in an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos airing Friday morning on Good Morning America, Sater tells ABC News that there is much, much more to his life story. And he’s right. “I don’t think if a screenwriter was trying to write this movie that they could make this up,” Sater said. Sater, 52, says that for the past two decades he has served as a high-level intelligence asset for the DIA, CIA and the FBI. As first reported this week by Buzzfeed News, Sater has helped bust mafia families, capture cybercriminals and pursue top terrorists — including Osama bin Laden — earning praise from some of the country’s top law enforcement officials. He won’t say whether or not he’s been interviewed by the special counsel, but it’s almost certain t... Link to the full article to read more

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