few people were because of the u.s. sanctions. yeah. so the more you look at this deal, the stranger it seems. it wasn t just, yeah, he was going to put up a tower like trump tower in new york. it was a sort of strange confusing deal with a lot of business partners that have a lot of questions around them. donald trump has built with felix sater before. is this similar to the deals he s done with them? so they worked on the trump soho, which is here in manhattan and we have done a lot of the reporting on it. that building did go up but it went bankrupt during the course of the marketing or after the marketing, ivanka trump and donald trump jr. were investigated for felony fraud by the manhattan d.a. that case was never brought. and the building is now no longer the trump soho. it s called the dominic hotel. nor even though one of the things they were investigating for was claiming that it was 60% sold, nor was it ever more than 30% sold. wow. so there was a building but it
be asking the kremlin for perhaps permission to get a nice coveted location so there you have it. the question of why were they seeking a favor from the kremlin from a hostile foreign power at a time when nobody else was really investing in russia or few people were because of the u.s. sanctions. the more you look at the deal, the stranger it seems. it was yeah, we ll put up a tower like trump tower in new york, it was a strange confusing deal with a lot of business partners that have a lot of questions around them. and donald trump is built with felix sater before. is this similar to the deals he s done with him? they worked on the trump soho here in manhattan and we ve done a lot of reporting on it. that building did go up but went bankrupt during the course of the marketing or after the marketing ivanka trump and donald trump junior were investigated for felony fraud by the manhattan d.a. that case was never brought and
new fallout this morning in the college admissions scam that led to at least 50 people facing felony fraud charges including felicity huffman and lori loughlin. while dozens of wealthy parents have been charged, more could emerge. the schools involved include the university of southern california, ucla, stanford and yale but are said not to be criminal targets in the investigation. katie, good morning. can you help take us through the charges and the sentencing guidelines. the charges are significant. felonies, when you deal with things like wire afraid, mail fraud, racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, these are significant charges. each could lead up to 20 years in federal prison.
for the purpose of getting a loan. according to michael cohen, it was submited to one for reducing insurance premiums, lying to a financial institution for the purpose of influencing their behavior can be financial felony fraud. the washington post put this set of facts to a commissioner of the securities and exchange commission who is a law professor at stanford, he told them quote, michael cohen s testimony opens another line of inquiry. into bank fraud. and, you know, the devil is in the details and context is everything. the post reports that in one copy of this same 2012 financial statement that they obtained independently, trump s account table accountants had a long disclaimer. if this was potentially going to be investigated as possibly felony bank fraud, you need to see what the bank actually received from trump, how these materials were presented by trump and his business and for
the judge will ask sayoc about his attorney and they will also discuss the charges against him and possible extradition to new york. those charges are serious. five federal counts, and they could put him away for up to 48 years in prison. they could also add additional charges, including one of the use of a weapon of mass destruction. that would mean life in prison for sayoc. we re getting a bit more of a picture of him in recent years from some a strange family members. his sister saying about seam 17, we hope he gets the mental health that you need so desperately. also, in recent years he s become weirder and weirder. he has had a string of arrests including for felony fraud and theft. he has gone through foreclosure on his house, declared in group c, and for the past several years has lived in that notorious white van. now, investigators think he may have used it as a laboratory to construct this pipe bombs. back to you. harris: steve, thank you very much. president trump is ri