2016 ELECTION/COURTS/FBI/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge has confirmed for the first time that Felix Sater, a former Donald Trump business associate who drove Trump Tower Moscow negotiations during the 2016 election, helped the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden. During a hearing on Thursday [5-16-19] in the Eastern District of New York — held as part of a lawsuit brought by First Look Media to unseal records related to Sater’s longtime cooperation with the government on various national security issues — Judge I. Leo Glasser said the media group already knew all of the ‘very interesting and dangerous things’ Sater had done through his decade as an FBI informant…The detail is just another bizarre side plot that has emerged over the two-plus years that federal investigators, lawmakers and journalists have tried to uncover every detail about possible interactions between the Trump campaign and Russian intermediaries during the 2016 election. The probes have put spotlights on a cast of figures in Trump’s extended orbit, many of whom possess unusual backgrounds. Sater was pulled into the public eye because of his role in trying to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.”
–Natasha Bertrand, “Judge confirms Trump associate gave feds Osama bin Laden’s number,” Politico, May 16, 2019 6:30 pm