Felix Sater (Credit: Getty Images) Felix Sater’s name is mentioned more than 100 times in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative report. A sketch of Trump Tower Moscow (Credit: Buzzfeed) The report indicates that Sater, a former associate of the Trump Organization who built Trump Soho, wanted to arrange a public meeting between Vladimir Putin and […]
Mueller Report provides new info on Trump Tower Moscow, Felix Sater and more
From left: Jared Kushner, Felix Sater, William Barr, Donald Trump, and Robert Mueller (Illustration by Kevin Rebong for The Real Deal; Credit: Getty Images and iStock) The long-awaited report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller provides additional details on the abandoned Trump-branded project in Moscow and the 2016 meeting between Jared Kushner and a top Russian […]
Barr issues strong defense of Trump shortly before Mueller report’s release
Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice (Credit: Getty Images) Attorney General William Barr vigorously defended President Trump in a press conference Thursday morning ahead of the release of the Special Counsel’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Barr […]
Sorry, Steven Spielberg. The Government Warn Streamers Must Stay In the Oscar Pool
In an unusual move, President Trump’s Justice Department has sternly warned the organization behind the Oscars that if eligibility rules are enacted the hurt the profitability of new competitors—referring to streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime—it could raise antitrust concerns and violate competition laws. The March 21 letter to Dawn Hudson, CEO of the […]
Trump-Deutsche Bank ties a “bond born of necessity and ambition”: report
President Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank’s Rosemary Vrablic with Deutsche Bank headquarters at 60 Wall Street (Credit: Getty Images, Facebook, and Google Maps) Amid investigations by two congressional committees and the New York attorney general, Deutsche Bank officials have sought to downplay the bank’s ties to President Donald Trump. But a new report from the […]
The Closing: Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci (Photos by Studio Scrivo) Anthony Scaramucci may be best known for his 11 tumultuous days as President Donald Trump’s White House communications director, before he got the axe from then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in July 2017. That was the first time Kelly and Scaramucci had met. The fast-talking 55-year-old financier, whose recent […]