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>> it's a problematic project from top to bottom. >> a lawsuit filed by a former bay rock insider in 2010 accuses bay rock of moneylaundering and having questionable ties to russia and russian organized crime. the suit is ongoing, and bay rock denies the allegations. >> there is huh, why would trump ever do business with those guys? >> guys like russian born felix sat sater, bay rock's key executive. sederai sater says it is a shakedown. sater is a twice convicted felon. after his second conviction, he cooperated on cases with the justice department. >> felix had been convicted of stabbing som...

Discussed internally at company is how the funding they were putting into trump projects was from people close to putin. >> right. right. >> how credible is that allegation? particularly given he is kind of a disgruntled employee? >> purely anecdotal. he has no records to show the records come from putin. a spokesman for president putin told me he has no connection to the bank that loaned the money to the bayrock group or the group itself. however, the banks that came into bayrock were -- and funding that came into bayrock was very murky, putin or not. and came in through felix, the guy corral...

Taking his children to russia to do deals. and i think to the extent that mueller investigation now is morphing into something other than obstruction of justice investigation, and mueller begins to try to follow the money trail, it would be interesting if some of this ends up coming back into an examination of trump and his relationship with felix sater. >> and there has been previous reporting, very interesting in terms of sater's criminal history, this very interesting and intriguing story in which he plead guilty and not sentenced for a decade later. intrigue about that for a number of reas...

When felix sater and his company put together the financing for the trump projects, including trump soho, they had a specific explanation at their company for why they had to take some foreign financing and why thad had to turn some other foreign financing down. quote, the exemployee said in an interview that a competitor of the fl group also contacted him to invest when he took that office to felix sater and the chairman of sater's firm, they told him they had to take fl's funds for deals they were doing with trump because that investment firm was closer to putin. why did you have to take the...

Card there, a job title there. there's been some continuing -- >> and after trump was questioned under oath in our litigation about whether or not he was concerned about felix sater's mob ties at the end of 2007 and yet three years after that and sater continues as consultant to the company. and a decade later is still in contact with the president's term attorney. >> in terms of the question, again, about whether this is not just association but related to the current stuff, am i also right that one of the people who bob mueller brought on is special counsel one of the lawyers working with hi...