38 Facts About Felix Sater

Felix Sater has been an advisor to corporations such as The Trump Organization, and the Mirax Group.

In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia, and became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime investigations.

In 2017, Felix Sater agreed to cooperate with investigators into international money laundering schemes.

On June 21,2019, Felix Sater was issued a subpoena by the House Intelligence Committee after he refused a request to testify voluntarily.

On July 9,2019, Felix Sater appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, but repeatedly withheld testimony and documents concerning the details of a false joint defense agreement and thus remains under subpoena.

Felix Sater was born in Moscow into a Russian Jewish family, the son of Mikhail Sheferovsky and Rachel Sheferovskaya.

The family emigrated to Israel when Felix Sater was 8 years old to avoid religious persecution in the Soviet Union, and eventually came to the United States, living in Baltimore, Maryland before settling in Brighton Beach, New York in 1974.

Felix Sater was reportedly a childhood friend of Michael Cohen.

Felix Sater attended Pace University, dropping out at the age of 18 to work on Wall Street, initially as a cold-caller at Bear Stearns.

In January 2022, Felix Sater claimed that the barfight victim had tried to decline pressing charges, but that the US government kept pressing because they wanted cooperation from Felix Sater's father.

In 2008, Felix Sater joined the board of the Russian real estate company Mirax Group, owned by Sergei Polonsky.

Felix Sater joined Bayrock Group LLC as a senior advisor in 2003 at the behest of the company's owner and founder, Tevfik Arif.

Felix Sater left Bayrock Group LLC in 2008 after the New York Times disclosed his pending criminal case.

Felix Sater was a managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, as well as a senior advisor to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization when construction of the Trump SoHo began in 2006.

Felix Sater played a major role throughout the process of the building's construction, and remained managing director of Bayrock Group when the Trump SoHo project was completed in 2010.

In late January 2017, Felix Sater met with Ukrainian politician Andrey Artemenko and Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, at the Loews Regency in Manhattan to discuss a plan to lift sanctions against Russia.

Felix Sater has been described as a career criminal due to his links to organized crime.

In 1991, Felix Sater got into an argument with a commodities broker at the El Rio Grande restaurant and bar in Midtown Manhattan.

Felix Sater stabbed the man's cheek and neck with the stem of a cocktail glass, breaking his jaw, lacerating his face, and severing nerves, creating a wound that would require 110 stitches to treat.

Felix Sater was convicted of first degree assault, and spent 15 months in minimum security Edgecombe Correctional Facility in New York City before being paroled.

In 1998, Felix Sater was convicted of fraud in connection to a $40 million penny stock pump and dump scheme conducted by the Russian Mafia involving his company White Rock Partners.

In return for a guilty plea, Felix Sater agreed to assist the FBI and federal prosecutors as an informant on organized crime.

In 2006 there was a lawsuit that alleged that Felix Sater made a death threat against a Bayrock investor named Ernie Menez.

Felix Sater threatened to have a man electrically shock Menez's genitals, cut off his legs, and have him put in the trunk of a car.

Felix Sater possibly did this because of Menez finding out about his past convictions and links to organized crime.

The Financial Times, citing five sources with knowledge of the matter, reported that Felix Sater had agreed to cooperate with investigators looking into an international money laundering scheme involving Viktor Khrapunov, a former government minister in Kazakhstan.

Felix Sater received multiple subpoenas to produce documents and be deposed in the case against Mukhtar Ablyazov who is alleged to have defrauded BTA Bank of up to $5 billion as chairman.

Felix Sater has denied the allegations and has attempted to settle the suit but was not successful.

In December 2017, Felix Sater was questioned by a congressional committee in an out-of-state interview about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Felix Sater further claimed that he had been in a position to kill bin Laden in 1998 during a raid on a terrorist training camp inside Afghanistan and regretted his decision not to, a claim that was later confirmed by investigative journalists Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier via US intelligence officials with knowledge of the incident.

In 2019, as part of a broader discussion with the House Intelligence Committee about his years-long cooperation with the FBI, CIA, and Defense Intelligence Agency, Felix Sater formally testified to assisting the US Government locate Osama Bin Laden.

Judge I Leo Glasser confirmed that Sater helped the US government track down bin Laden as he provided the telephone number of Osama bin Laden.

In 2010, Felix Sater was provided business cards describing himself as "Senior Advisor to Donald Trump" with an email address at TrumpOrg.

Felix Sater's anticipated public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, scheduled for March 27,2019, was postponed pending the imminent release of the Mueller Report.

Felix Sater was then rescheduled to give closed-door testimony on June 21,2019.

Felix Sater later appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on July 9,2019 during a closed door meeting which lasted for eight hours.

Boland stated that Felix Sater will remain under subpoena until he cooperates with this request.

Felix Sater was a member of the Chabad of Port Washington and was named their Man of the Year in 2010 and 2014.