The Curious Case of Felix Sater

Google doesn't really want the U.S. to see this article, I guess.
Or who knows? I certainly don't recall ever hearing of this back in 2010 and I read the news daily and have most of my adult life.


When you click on it though, the story is still there. Strange format, but there.


The Democrat Party? You don't say.

There is an English translated video of his interview which was leaked now on YouTube which is a confirmation of this article.
www.youtube.com...

So who is this poor b@$tard again? Link

Kazakhstan has accused the former head of its state uranium firm of pocketing resources of the nuclear fuel worth billions of dollars, by transferring them to foreign companies he controlled. The KNB security service arrested the Kazatomprom chief, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, last month along with other officials, accusing them of illegal uranium deals.

Oh, okay. So he's being lumped in with Ablyazov and was arrested for doing shady # on uranium deals. But wait, he's saying some stuff that kinda rings true, given the rest of the facts we are now aware of and can factor into all of this. Several Dems could have colluded or been bribed or blackmailed and the uranium deal being used a source of funds for the Democratic Party.

Maybe this guy is a convenient scapegoat. Maybe Ablyazov is also a scapegoat, along with Khrapunovs. Ablyazov is claiming he's innocent. Family members are telling reporters they aren't even aware of where those jailed are being held.

Addressing reporters in the Kazakh financial capital, Almaty, relatives of those arrested accused the authorities of holding their family members in secret locations without access to independent lawyers.

Another person is quoted stating

"The KNB has no legal grounds in this case. Everything happening right now has been falsified.... Kazatomprom is a state company and all deals are done only with state approval."

This is likely in reference only to the Kazatomprom uranium deals under scrutiny, and providing the statement of fact in which it would be difficult for Mukhtar Dzhakishev to do any shady deals without the approval of the Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev.

The article goes on to discuss political balance within Kazakhstan and how this particular case, along with Ablyazov, has "highlighted divisions among the ruling class" in a country where there is no clear successor and Nazarbayev has ruled for over a decade. (He did slightly "step down" recently but I'll get to that soon, and he's still not really out of power.)

Apparently, we learn Ablyazov had been the leader of an opposing political party called Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, or DCK which he started in 2001.
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The movement adopted a strong anti-Nazarbayev stance and criticized the corruption and nepotism of the president and his clique. Despite repeated attempts, authorities did not register DCK as a political movement.

The party participated in the 2004 election but according to Wikipedia they were disbanded in February 2005.
The Wikipedia source for this information is not linkable so take it with a grain of salt.
But we do know Ablyazov was Chairman of BTA Bank 2005-2009 before he fled the country.

It's the one deal associated with Uranium One (later) that is used as an example of Mukhtar Dzhakishev's fraud tied to the Uranium One deal, yet what I find most interesting is the actual origin of this is not stated. It's always labeled Uranium One in the mainstream media when it's referenced, versus how it came about, which was through Frank Giustra/Kazakhstan. Unless you go to news outside U.S.

The KNB had earlier singled out the sale of a 30 percent stake in the Kyzylkum venture, which runs the country's largest uranium mine, Khorasan, as an example of an illegal transaction.

Kyzylkum
'Who Sold Key Asset To Uranium One?' May 29 2009

Uranium One Inc. UUU-T says it doesn't know who previously owned the company's stake in a uranium deposit that is now at the centre of a national scandal in Kazakhstan, raising concerns about the miner's ownership of the lucrative property.

Uranium One owns a 30-per-cent stake in the Kyzylkum joint venture, which was purchased for $75-million (U.S.) in 2005 from a privately held company, Jeffcott Group Ltd. But the Vancouver firm says the shareholders behind Jeffcott were never specifically identified, nor does it know how Jeffcott initially obtained rights to the project.

"We dealt with corporations and entities that had title to the assets. In fact, we dealt with their representatives in the case of Kyzylkum. Therefore, we have no knowledge of the beneficiaries or shareholders behind Jeffcott," Chris Sattler, Uranium One's executive vice-president of corporate development and investor relations, said in an interview yesterday.

Mukhtar Dzhakishev was arrested this week and accused of embezzling stakes in major uranium fields and "handing them" to offshore companies. Authorities singled out the sale of a 30-per-cent stake in Kyzylkum that was allegedly sold for little more than $100,000 in 2005.

Uranium One inherited its 30-per-cent share in Kyzylkum in 2007 when it took over UrAsia Energy Ltd. in a deal originally valued at $3.1-billion. UrAsia was founded by Vancouver mining financier and philanthropist Frank Giustra. In 2005, Mr. Giustra and UrAsia officials acquired interests in three Kazakh uranium properties, including the stake in Kyzylkum.

"Jeffcott is owned and controlled by 1900 Trust Company Limited (the "Trustee") acting as trustee of the Jeffcott Family Trust. ... The control of Jeffcott, as shareholder, is carried on by the Board of Directors of the Trustee," the documents say. The filings identified "Eugene Charyshkin" as a Jeffcott director and his signature is on the agreements.

This person made an interesting thread delving deeper into the mystery of it all.
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That's one theory.

I think it's important now to take a look at what the price of uranium did during the year 2007. Because Mukhtar Dzhakishev, the individual who appears to have taken the full blowback for this in Kazakhstan, is claiming financial fraud over the whole deal.

This was referred to as the "uranium bubble of 2007."

The uranium bubble of 2007 was a period of nearly exponential growth in the price of natural uranium, starting in 2005 and peaking at roughly $300/kg (or ~$135/lb) in mid-2007. This coincided with significant rises of stock price of uranium mining and exploration companies. After mid-2007, the price began to fall again and at the end of 2010, was relatively stable at around $100/kg.

Sxr Uranium One Buying Urasia


According to the World Nuclear site regarding Uranium Link

As with other minerals, investment in geological exploration generally results in increased known resources. Over 2005 and 2006 exploration effort resulted in the world’s known uranium resources increasing by 15% in that two years.There is therefore no reason to anticipate any shortage of uranium that would prevent conventional nuclear power from playing an expanding role in providing the world’s energy needs for decades or even centuries to come.

In 2007, this is what was going on, according to the Joint Force Quarterly, Q3 2007.

The latency challenge will grow as more states gain access to either basic or more advanced levels of nuclear technology. Consider the countries that recently have expressed interest in or intent to initiate or expand nuclear energy activities, including in some cases developing an indigenous capability to enrich uranium: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen. Driving these decisions is a dynamic mix of motivations shaped by security, energy,
and science. Anxiety about North Korea and Iran likely is fueling proliferation pressures in East Asia and the Middle East as threat perceptions evolve and concerns grow about the fraying of the international nonproliferation regime. Others may look at these cases and conclude that possessing or seeking nuclear weapons results in enhanced leverage and influence. Energy security is an increasingly salient factor in the appeal of nuclear technology, given the economics of oil and what may become growing pressures to find alternatives to fossil fuels in light of global warming. Additionally, many countries associate nuclear not just with security or energy, but with modernity as well. That is, access to nuclear science and technology is seen by those who consider themselves behind as a powerful means to join the community of
advanced nations. The problem is not limited to states. Small groups or individuals operating outside traditional political boundaries may be capable of assisting states or terror groups in developing or acquiring nuclear capability. In this sense, the A.Q. Khan clandestine nuclear procurement network—to cite only the most prominent nuclear black market activity—is a concrete manifestation of globalization in the security arena. In the future, we may look back at the Khan phenomenon not as an anomaly but as the harbinger of a period in which literally anything could be bought or sold. Certainly, this is a problem that the framers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 40 years ago, could not have anticipated.

It is no surprise, then, that the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under great stress. The regime overall has been effective in containing the spread of nuclear weapons, not least by giving governments confidence that restraint is in their self-interest. But the progress of determined, hostile proliferators poses a major threat to the integrity of the regime and the norms that it embodies. Failure to resolve these challenges and delegitimize various models of creeping proliferation could lead to a broad-based loss of faith in the regime and its effectiveness as a security alternative to possessing nuclear
weapons. Increasing global energy demand is a complicating factor not only because nuclear energy is becoming more appealing but also because of the geopolitics of oil. In a time of higher oil prices, it will be difficult to impose
the type of hard sanctions that may be necessary to induce states such as Iran—a major oil exporter that also has the capability to interfere with other exporters’ oil shipments—to limit their nuclear ambitions. China’s rapidly growing need for imported energy is of particular concern here, as Beijing seeks to establish strategic relationships with major oil exporters such as Iran.

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Who Is This Person?
Google Books Link


And Goodness. This was published April 30, 2017 by Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery (KAIR)
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This should really be read in full, but for the lazy people this is what is most important.
'Ablyazov’s Kazakh Nuke Deal: Scandal Pops Up In The USA In Distorted Form'

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one. At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

2010


Who really wouldn't want any of this to come out?

What’s all this got to do with Felix Sater?

Well, he’s been “in the mix” of Ablyazov and the Khrapunovs since at least 2007, if not before. So all of this takes on additional interest, considering he was targeted by the mainstream media as a Russian mobster.

But he’s really an informant wiggling his way into this entire mess.

Many names tied to Mueller’s investigation tie to Russia/Kazakhstan/Ukraine. All we hear about 98% of the time is 1 of those countries. I think it may be important to look at all three.

More to come later. Whew. This thread may take me awhile but at least all of my research will get documented somewhere other than my devices. Ha.

It’s hard to tell if this is a fake, or legit.
I’m adding it here as food for thought but its legitimacy is a toss-up.

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HUMA ABEDIN in full capacity as Huma Abedin; was officially present at several meetings in Kazahkstan alongside FRANK GIUSTRA and the CLINTON-GIUSTRA ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP to take official receipt of an undisclosed backroom deal, involving the mines in the region. As such, this is deemed an official quid-quo pro with grave national security implications which directly affect the interests of the united states.

By the same token we also charge JOHN PODESTA as well as Podesta Group for taking direct part in an illicit and illegal transaction which greatly affected the national interest in severe ways. In addition, we place specific charges of conspiracy against FRANK GIUSTRA and CLINTON-GIUSTRA ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP for directing official sale without permission. Due to various damages that were inflicted, we also charge principal HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON; in both public and private: for commissioning this probationary sale and getting involved in mining affairs of a foreign nation which is in violation of both 18 U.S.C Code 96 and §2381. In respect to this, we have no choice except to note FRANK GIUSTRA and JOHN PODESTA are not registered under the required FARA Act. Thereby we have little issue with charging both JOHN PODESTA and FRANK GIUSTRA with 18 U.S.C §2381, which is the applied standard RICO racketeering act of 1961. [see Roviarov. United States, p. 353 U.S. 53 (1957) . ] The deal in question is clearly done on behalf of a Foreign Interest, and neither party in particular the Podesta Group opted to register as a Foreign Agent under FARA as required.

"Russia and Rosatom have a record of supporting nuclear programs in countries that are openly hostile to the United States, such as Iran, North Korea and Venezuela. And now, America’s uranium could find its way to an Iranian or North Korean nuclear reactor and their weapons programs, thanks to Hillary and her brazen contempt for our nation’s interests and security."

There is a lot more in those 20+ pgs. However, again this is not corroborated and the first I’ve seen any claim Huma Abedin was there in Kazakhstan for this deal.

a reply to: ucanthandlethetruth

Pretty sure that's fake.

Yeah, it seems unlikely to be true.
Judge name listed is an actual judge but any person can file anything in a court.

I’d really love to know if there was more than one “aide” there though, when this deal was signed.
Tbh, nothing surprises me anymore. lol

Wash Post, 2010
According to Ddzhakishev, we know at least Tim Phillips was allegedly there.

But in the leaked video of him speaking to the authorities, Dzhakishev said a senior Kazakh official told him to look into the deal after then-Sen. Hillary Clinton canceled a meeting with him. Dzhakishev said he was told that "investors who currently work in Kazakhstan and have ties to Clinton have problems and meetings will be resumed only after Kazakhstan resolves the problems." "I called them, and they came. I met them in Astana and then Clinton's aide, Tim Phillips, began to scream that this deal involves Democrats and is financed by them, and that we were hampering the deal," Dzhakishev said. Timothy Phillips, a visiting lecturer at Tufts University and the co-chair of a conflict-resolution project there, served as a senior adviser to the Clinton Foundation, according to the project's Web site, which has been edited to remove the reference to the Clinton Foundation. A Clinton spokesman said Phillips had served as a fundraising consultant to the foundation.

Tim Phillips, Clinton Foundation advisor 2010
Also co-chair of Project on Justice in Times of Transition Link

Sater 2007

Due to the number of aliases Sater is known to have, one has to look at other names for more details.

At the time Sater is moving in on the players involved around the Urasia/U1 in 2006, he’s working for Bayrock inking deals with FL Group. Remember I said I would get back to them.

Global news wire

FL Group announces that it has invested $50m in four active US-based real estate development projects alongside Bayrock Group, a US-based international real estate investment and development firm.
These projects are:
• Trump Soho - The development of a 5 star hotel condominium in Soho, Manhattan, in partnership with Donald Trump and the Sapir organization.
• Trump Lauderdale - The development of a 5 star hotel condominium in partnership with Donald Trump situated on Fort Lauderdale beach.
• Whitestone New York - The development of 13 acres of land located along the east river in Whitestone, Queens. Bayrock Group plans to build a number of luxury homes and town homes on this land.
• Camelback - The development of a 5 star hotel and residential condominium in Phoenix.
The lifetime of the projects is expected to be between two to three years. The investment will be funded with own funds and loans. Alfa Investment Consulting were a facilitator to the transaction and advisor to Bayrock Group.

Facebook page
Lists this contact number +971 4 239 7777
(their website appears to be gone)

...which is the same number used for Empro Holdings located in Dubai, UAE.
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And Canada
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Bloomberg

The late Boris Berezovksy, once one of the wealthiest and wiliest of Russia's oligarchs, thought the Russia-Iceland connection was obvious. He told a SkyTV interviewer in 2009 that if you wanted to look for where "Putin and his cronies" might be laundering money, well, "the best example, definitely, is Iceland."

TPM

When reporters combed through the Panama Papers last year, they recognized a familiar name cropping up: the FL Group, a now-defunct Icelandic bank that in 2013 had been accused in a lawsuit of developing a scheme, ultimately never realized, to avoid $250 million in taxes on a $2 billion investment in real estate projects, many of them tied to President Donald Trump. The bank began as a holding company for two airlines based in the little Nordic nation, Flugfélag Íslands and Loftleiðir—hence the name—until 2005, when it became its own financial institution with a surprisingly large number of Russian clients.

... FL Group was one of a number of Icelandic banks with surprisingly deep ties to the Russian billionaire class ascendant in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet system, according to Henry. The wealth of the post-USSR oligarch class was so directly tied to the Icelandic economy, in fact, that Russian president Vladimir Putin offered $5.4 billion to bail out Iceland’s banks during the global financial crisis, though the deal never went through.

The Icelandic bank managed to seal a 2007 deal to invest $50 million with the developer Bayrock Group, a firm run by two men convicted of stock fraud in the 1990’s, Felix Sater and Salvatore Lauria, alongside a former Soviet official named Tevfik Arif. A former finance director at Bayrock, Jody Kriss, sued the company in 2010 for allegedly misrepresenting Sater’s role—though the complaint remained sealed by the court until 2016. In an interview with Bloomberg, Kriss said another Icelandic bank called offering a counter investment to FL Group’s proposed $50 million, and Sater and Arif told him to stick with that firm because it was “closer to Putin.”

The small size of the Icelandic economy means that most people who work in the financial sector in that country know each other. Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, the wealthiest man in Iceland, claimed FL had been infiltrated and taken over by pro-Russian interests, Henry noted. “He ended up owning about 30% of FL Group, and he claimed it had been taken over by hostile people who were channelling Russian money through it,” he recalled.

When I looked into the name Salvatore Lauria, the above reference was the first time I noted this name referenced in conjunction with Bayrock and Tevfik Arif.

Felix and Salvatore go way back. They BOTH did the original stock fraud scam back in the late 90s together, and both cooperated with the FBI together. BOTH apparently worked at Bayrock together since approx 2002...

A few short months after 9/11.

Here's what is interesting to me. The Trump name was/is a brand. Kind of like Howard Hughes was a brand. I am fairly new to ATS and new to creating threads. One of the first threads I created is about the possibility of Trump being an asset for the FBI off and on. Based on an old FBI memorandum from 1981, and the resulting take down of the mob Five Families in 1985 and the Mafia Pizza Connection case 1985-87. Rudy Giuliani was the federal prosecutor.

Factor in shortly after 9/11, you have this Trump brand-licensing real estate developer/FBI informant right in NY working again with Salvatore Lauria, the same guy he did the stock scam with in the late 90s of $40 million, an office in Trump Tower, and Trump hasn't done any real estate deal other than using the Bayrock team.

The Bayrock team who, factoring in all the evidence and lawsuit history I'll get to soon, was working hard to get money laundered from the Russia-Kazakhstan-Iceland countries, and developed the ties to then meander their way into Ablyazov-Khrapunov circles through Tevfik Arif (cannot tell which ones Salvatore played a role in or didn't - Sater took the beatings in the media) in 2007 around the time the Urasia-Uranium One merger was going on. (June 2007) Recall according to the BTA Bank lawsuit, Sater met Ablyazov at the Ablyazov-Khrapunov wedding. Who knows who he met there from Kazakhstan.

All of this reminds me of the term "honeypot." If you think about it, using the Trump brand as a honeypot for real estate laundering deals would be pretty smart. At least alluring to gain intel even if deals fall apart. Kind of like Hughes is suspected to have assisted the C-eye-A.

Back to Salvatore and Sater. Found out a book was written by an author named David Barry regarding their scam.

www.amazon.com...
A whopping 9 reviews.
Kind of like the whopping interest by ATS regarding this thread. So not a bestseller.

The Russian Fable about The Scorpion and the Frog for those who may be unfamiliar.

The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable that seems to have first emerged in Russia. On account of its dark morality, there have been many references to it since then in popular culture, including in films, television shows, and books.

A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The scorpion climbs onto the frog's back and the frog begins to swim, but midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung the frog, to which the scorpion replies "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."

This book appears to be a fairly accurate -unclear how exaggerated- portrayal of their "high crimes" together.

Here's what was stated in the Forbes motion-to-intervene suit petitioning for the unsealing of Felix's files in reference to this:

Moreover, their illicit activities involved four different Italian mafia crime families, as a subsequent grand jury indictment in 2000 stated. Specifically, from March 1993 to October 1996, Frank Coppa Sr., a captain in the Bonnano crime family; Eugene Lombardo, an associate of that family; Daniel Perisco, an associate of the Colombo family; Joseph Polito Sr., an associate of the Gambino family, Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, a soldier in the Genovese family among others, “devised, implemented and oversaw fraudulent schemes to manipulate the price of securities” of four different companies and “fraudulently induc[ed] investors to buy and hold these securities,” according to the indictment, also filed in the Eastern District of New York. Sater, Klotsman, and Lauria, who had already pleaded guilty to the 1998 complaint, were listed as unindicted co-conspirators in this later case, which clearly netted much bigger fish for the feds based on an accidental haul at the Mini Storage. They all turned on their former mob accomplices, as did Sater’s father, Mikhail Sater, also known as Michael Sheferofsky. The father was indicted in 2000 on two counts by then-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch. Sheferofsky’s accomplice in that case was Butch Montevecchi, who also figured in the younger Sater’s case. Both men pleaded guilty to extorting “restaurants, food stores, and a medical clinic” in the Russian enclave of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn through intimidation and violence from December of 1990 to January of 1999. The father got off with three years’ probation in exchange for cooperation that included wearing a wire in a case against a group of Polish immigrants perpetrating major Medicaid fraud in Greenpoint in Brooklyn.

I'll quote more from in the next post.

Forbes Media Motion to Intervene

U.S. Attorney Lynch seemed to make ample use of the Saters, who were a unique father and son team, both working as informants with the same Mafia henchmen, but different FBI handlers on different cases.

...As recounted in The Scorpion and the Frog: High Crimes and High Times, a 2003 book Lauria later co-authored with former Associated Press journalist David Barry, the three associates became spies for the CIA, tasked with offering U.S. taxpayer money to buy Stinger anti-aircraft missiles that had gone missing from the covert U.S. campaign to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan. Those missiles, it was feared, were destined for Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. The idea, according to the book, was to give the Russian government the funds to purchase 10 Stingers on the black market in Afghanistan, and then turn them over to the Sater, Klotsman, and Lauria, who would then relinquish them to their Langley handlers.

... Sater, whom Barry variously described as a “bad guy” and “tough son of a bitch,” returned to the U.S. first, without the ‘Get out of Jail card,’ still facing the possibility of long prison terms. Then came the 9/11 attacks. “Until the tragedy of September 11, the matter of my sentencing was a big weight hanging over my head,” Lauria says in the “as told to” book that Barry wrote. “It was very likely that I would do serious time; the question was how much. But a few days after September 11, I got a call from [Sater], telling me that the information we had provided about Osama bin Laden was now being actively pursued, and our situation had improved. Three days before the attack on the World Trade Center, the Taliban or al Qaeda had assassinated the man we had hoped would be our contact, Ahmad Shah Massoud, the man who had become the Northern Alliance leader.” The book continues, “[Sater] had gotten a call from a boss of a new section in the FBI who wanted to talk to him about the whole Stinger deal. We had done a careful job of putting it together… We had provided the actual serial numbers of the Stingers, which had been available in ’98, and we had passed on what we thought was an active cell phone number for bin Laden.”

I'd like to point out this is where I got intrigued as far as what exactly Trump HAS been doing all these years.
Recall Sater stated in Russian to a Russian publication in an interview days after the election Trump has been working on cancer research.

Sounds strange, I know. But he seems to have been much more interested in political and world events, as well as the fact he had a team to do paperwork and it doesn't take much to show up at a few meetings and smile and shake hands and sign your name on papers to license your brand. Just pointing that out.

So here's the rest of the Motion to Intervene I want to point out. Wait for it.

By 2002, Sater had reinvented himself yet again, this time as a managing director of a real-estate development firm called the Bayrock Group, founded by the Kazakhstan-born Tevfik Arif. His co-defendant and fellow FBI and CIA informant, Lauria, eventually joined him there. Bayrock’s offices are, conveniently, in Trump Tower, which is how Sater’s checkered path intersected with the current U.S. president. Court papers say that Sater and Trump first met in 2003 through a leasing agent for the tower. Trump professes when asked about Sater in a sworn deposition not to “know him well at all.” Nevertheless, for five years, Sater and Bayrock did deal after licensing deal with the Trump Organization, all over the country. A 2006 Rocky Mountain News article quoted Sater as describing the ideal location for a Trump-named building in Denver, Colorado, while “traveling in Moscow with Trump’s son, Donald, Jr.” Email correspondence obtained by Forbes showed direct contact between Donald, Jr. and Sater in discussions about a Florida high-rise. In the end, another building in SoHo would be the source of the former FBI mole’s unwanted media attention.

Whether or not Trump was lousy at due diligence or his fleet of lawyers simply couldn’t Google the name “Felix Sater” (which would have brought up a 1998 Businessweek article citing his implication in the Mini Storage affair and ensuing fraud case) remains unclear. And Sater’s decision to add a ‘t’ to his given name to make it “Satter” should not have greatly complicated matters. However, the offering plan filed with New York State for the Trump SoHo, averred that there were “no prior felony convictions of Sponsor,” referring to Bayrock and another developer involved in the project known as the Sapir Organization. At this time, Sater had an ownership stake in Bayrock, according to correspondence obtained by Forbes.

In October 2009, 11 years after his indictment, Sater finally faced sentencing for his financial crime in a closed Brooklyn courtroom. He addressed the judge. “Yes, I am guilty of the things that I have done,” he said. “The worst thing that could happen, your honor, despite whatever sentence you impose on me… I went into real estate development and I built a very successful real estate company… a Trump project. I built the whole thing. Years ago, they wrote an article in the newspaper, ‘Executive With Ties to Donald Trump Has Criminal Past.’ The next month, I had to leave my company, the company I had built with my own hands.”

He couldn't have meant Bayrock because this company, at least on paper, appears to be Tevfik Arif's baby. So what does he mean by this statement?

In 2013, Sater’s connection to Trump, who was still two years shy of running for national office, caused the mogul one of his many moments of pique with a member of the international press. Trump stormed out of a BBC Panorama interview when asked by John Sweeney, “Shouldn’t you have said, Felix Sater, you’re connected with the Mafia and you’re fired.” Trump replied by suggesting Sweeney might be “thick” and that he could not break a contract with Bayrock even if Sater’s mob ties were established to his satisfaction.

Lol.

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Motion to Intervene Key Excerpts Almost Done

By 2010, Sater was out at Bayrock—but in at the Trump Organization. He reportedly brandished a business card naming him as a “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.” He also had a valid email address at the organization, a phone number that had previously belonged to one of Trump’s general counsels, and his own office in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. Sater’s role as an employee of the Trump Organization also came to light when he was accused of shaking down one of his former colleagues at Bayrock. Jody Kriss, the former finance director of Bayrock, alleged that he was entitled to a share of the $227 million profits in the Trump SoHo project. As reported by The Daily Beast in August 2016, Kriss claimed, in a court case filed in Delaware, that he was owed $7 million for his work on the project but offered a settlement of only half a million dollars. His principal antagonist in recouping his investment, he said, was Felix Sater. In sworn testimony, Kriss stated that his money had become entangled with an Icelandic financial company known as FL Group, which seemed to draw Russian investors “in favor” with Vladimir Putin. (Bayrock founder Tevfik Arif was also part of this deal.) According to Kriss: “Felix Satter [sic] told me that the deal with FL prohibited me from getting the rest in that I could either take the money and shut up or risk being killed if I made trouble. I knew at that time Satter had served a prison sentence for first degree assault (stabbing someone in the face with a wine glass stem) and with learning what would soon become common knowledge, that Satter had had a decades-long involvement with the New York and Russian mafia and had just in 2007 been sued in a civil action in Phoenix.”

Awww. This pretty boy was in fear for his life.

In a separate and still-pending suit to which Kriss is a plaintiff, this one filed in New York’s Southern District, he has alleged that “tax evasion and money-laundering are the core of Bayrock’s business model.” The defendants have argued thatthe suit amounts to a shakedown, but the judge has ruled that Kriss has enough of a case to warrant moving forward. As for Sater, he had coffee the other day with the president's personal lawyer and discussed a peace plan for Ukraine.

LOL. Did you catch it? Dude is saying Bayrock is using tax evasion and laundering money as their core business model to get "close to Putin" but didn't we read that he was the former finance director of Bayrock?
Dude. You sucked at your job. OR SOMETHING.

Moron seems to implicate himself in his own civil lawsuit.

Last of it I wish to document here.

As Sater became a more controversial figure, Trump did not cut ties. In 2008, Trump’s lawyers asked Sater to testify in Trump’s libel suit against journalist Tim O’Brien, arguing that O’Brien’s book, “Trump Nation,” damaged his reputation and cost him projects that Bayrock and others had been pursuing. The suit was dismissed. At the time, Sater testified he was in the process of leaving Bayrock because of the publicity around his past. During his 2009 sentencing, which had been delayed because of his work as a government witness, Sater bemoaned leaving Bayrock, a company he said he “had built with my own two hands.“

After Sater left Bayrock, he was given Trump Organization business cards and office space so he could continue searching for deals for the company, Garten said. The cards, first reported by the Associated Press, identified Sater as a “senior advisor to Donald Trump.” Garten said Sater was never a Trump Organization employee and was paid nothing during the brief 2010 arrangement. “Nothing came of it, and they went their separate ways,” Garten said.

Interestingly, it's only in this later paragraph we learn what the Forbes Media guy Richard Behar had read in the court transcript. That this reference was made to Bayrock. So let's think this through.

9/11 happens. We now know the first Stinger Missile deal Sater put together and the intel he gleaned didn't help their case all that much. It looked like Sater would still do time, along with Salvatore, even though they had gotten close enough at the time to get numbers of Bin Ladens. But when 9/11 happened, this changed Sater's intelligence worth to none other than the C-eye-A.

Then all the sudden Sater is set up with a Kazakhstan guy named Tevfik Arif who it states founded Bayrock, but Sater is acting like was his company all along. Laundering money front company, according to the former Finance Director of Bayrock who sued them, Jody Kriss. Working with FL Group, who according to people who would likely known, had ties to Russia. Which Sater speaks perfectly.

He did legitimate deals but it appears more, given the facts we are aware of, that from:
2002-2004 initial legitimate set up but working his way towards all his Russian contacts
2005 - Urasia deal in Kazakhstan; assets sold by Ablyazov; Ablyazov becomes BTA Bank Chairman - had openly opposed Kazakh President Nazarbayev. Iceland FL Group $50mil deal with Bayrock
2006 Sater meets Khrapunovs this year or 2005
6/2007 Uranium One-Urasia Energy reverse merger during "uranium bubble"
9/2007 Sater introduced to Ablyazov at Ablyazov-Khrapunov wedding
2008 Looming global financial crisis; Ablyazov stating Kazakh President was already pressuring him to sell at least 50% of the bank to their SWF, Samruk-Kazyna; Khrapunovs flee Kazakhstan; Kazakh prominent businessmen speak out in Ablyazov's defense
2009
Ablyazov flees Kazakhstan - BTA Bank alleges he defrauded them of at least $4 Billion - an allegation making it the largest fraud in history
Uranium One scandal comes out - no one understands why a Jeffcott Group would lose billions selling the Kzyllkym stake for $130k, or who was really part of the deal
Sater allegedly is working around this time per the BTA Bank lawsuit against him, to launder money through real estate deals for Ilyas Khrapunov, Viktor Khrapunov's son, the one who had just married Ablyazov's daughter a little over a year prior
Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ acquired 16.6% of shares in Uranium One in exchange for a 50% interest in the Karatau uranium mining project, a joint venture with Kazatomprom
2010
FBI Informant Campbell at Rosatom hands over papers and documents to his FBI handlers; Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin and which was promoting Uranium One stock, paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech in Moscow shortly after the Rosatom acquisition of Uranium One was announced;
Uranium One acquired 50% and 49% respective interests in southern Kazakhstan-based Akbastau and Zarechnoye uranium mines from ARMZ. In exchange, ARMZ increased its stake in Uranium One to 51%
At the time of the 2010 sale, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimated that Uranium One held the extraction rights to about 20% of U.S. uranium in the ground

It's pretty hard to believe Felix Sater's name didn't come across Robert Mueller's desk in regards to his connection as a deep informant in regards to all of this, especially considering they put this asset for the FBI Campbell in at Rosatom. Why wouldn't Mueller know Sater is close to Ablyazov who is in 2009 being accused of this massive defrauding of BTA Bank in the $4 to $6 billion range?

Mueller was FBI Director from 2001 - 2013. I can't tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy stuck in a bad situation during this time. If his FBI was closely monitoring the tech sharing going on with the Russians and State Dept doing Skolkovo crap (which continues to this day with American tech companies, among others), but let's consider this.

If all of this is going on late 2009-2010, he had his FBI tenure end looming ahead of him.
It was only months later midway through 2011, he knew he had 2 more years through the confirmed Senate extension. But even if he had wanted to do something before he left the FBI in 2013, in 2012 Obama was reelected. Obama's DOJ was not going to indict a sitting Secretary of State, even if there was enough evidence and perhaps information from Sater as a deep asset as far as the truth around the Democratic Party or the Clinton Foundation's ties to the Uranium One deal/Russia/Rosatom.

I find Mueller's Jan 2011Iron Triangle Speech very interesting. At this point, keep in mind he wasn't sure if he was leaving or staying.
'The Evolving Organized Crime Threat'
I suggest reading this in full but here's the most important excerpt.

We have seen a shift from regional families with a clear structure, to flat, fluid networks with global reach. These international enterprises are more anonymous and more sophisticated. Rather than running discrete operations, on their own turf, they are running multi-national, multi-billion dollar schemes from start to finish. We are investigating groups in Asia, Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East. And we are seeing cross-pollination between groups that historically have not worked together. Criminals who may never meet, but who share one thing in common: greed. They may be former members of nation-state governments, security services, or the military. These individuals know who and what to target, and how best to do it. They are capitalists and entrepreneurs. But they are also master criminals who move easily between the licit and illicit worlds. And in some cases, these organizations are as forward-leaning as Fortune 500 companies. This is not “The Sopranos,” with six guys sitting in a diner, shaking down a local business owner for $50 dollars a week. These criminal enterprises are making billions of dollars from human trafficking, health care fraud, computer intrusions, and copyright infringement. They are cornering the market on natural gas, oil, and precious metals, and selling to the highest bidder. These crimes are not easily categorized. Nor can the damage, the dollar loss, or the ripple effects be easily calculated. It is much like a Venn diagram, where one crime intersects with another, in different jurisdictions, and with different groups. How does this impact you? You may not recognize the source, but you will feel the effects. You might pay more for a gallon of gas. You might pay more for a luxury car from overseas. You will pay more for health care, mortgages, clothes, and food. Yet we are concerned with more than just the financial impact. These groups may infiltrate our businesses. They may provide logistical support to hostile foreign powers. They may try to manipulate those at the highest levels of government. Indeed, these so-called “iron triangles” of organized criminals, corrupt government officials, and business leaders pose a significant national security threat. Let us turn for a moment to the link between transnational organized crime and terrorism. If a terrorist cannot obtain a passport, for example, he will find someone who can. Terrorists may turn to street crime—and, by extension, organized crime—to raise money, as did the 2004 Madrid bombers. Organized criminals have become “service providers.” Could a Mexican group move a terrorist across the border? Could an Eastern European enterprise sell a Weapon of Mass Destruction to a terrorist cell? Likely, yes. Criminal enterprises are motivated by money, not ideology. But they have no scruples about helping those who are, for the right price. Intelligence and partnerships are key to our success in countering these threats. In the past nine years, we in the FBI have shifted from a law enforcement agency to a national security service that is threat-driven and intelligence-led. With organized crime, we are using intelligence to expand upon what we already know, from phone, travel, and financial records to extensive biographies of key players. And we are sharing this information with our partners around the world. But we are also building a long-term strategy for dismantling these enterprises.

Iron Triangle

Hard to believe this was written as an op ed in Dec of 1988.
USA Today, www.peterbgemma.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink">link

The Iron Triangle formula once included a separate category for the bureaucracy, but that’s now easily lumped with Congress. After all, as Reagan noted, even the Supreme Soviet has more turnover than the House. Administrations come and go, but a high-flying Congress and its faceless partners in the bowels of government keep spending up and efficiency down, In 1987 alone, 535 Capitol Hill politicians managed to mail more than 494 million newsletters, press releases, and other puff pieces without paying a penny in postage. We taxpayers pay for that and zillions of other perks.

The partisan media also contribute to skewering the balance of power. According to The Media Elite, a survey of 240 top print and electronic media people revealed that 54% placed themselves on the political left, 90% advocate abortion on demand, 80% never voted for a Republican presidential candidate, 56% believes the USA regularly exploits Third World nations. Do those numbers correspond with any poll of middle class thinking in, say, the last 10 years?

Oy vey.

Sater Unsealed
[p. 11]

[p. 12]

[p.27]

Attorney Kelly Moore, for Sater speaking regarding the attorney who has been battling for years for some reason to unseal all of Felix's files. We learn this guy is a snake, like most lawyers.
[p.31]


[p.33]

(Cont.)

[p.46]
This is the Judge giving his statement after listening to the attorneys for both sides


Judge still, [p. 50]


I'll continue sometime tomorrow.

Based on the above, we've learned this attorney who has been fighting hard to get Sater's files unsealed received (illegally) the copy of Sater's "proffer agreement" or cooperation agreement from a prior client of his, having stolen it from Sater's possession. Along with thousands of other Bayrock documents he stole after he was fired. His name was Bernstein.
[p. 71-73]



There's more back n forth, things that don't much matter, then this continues [p. 88]


Now they're covering who has seen all of the files. This is unsealed stuff from 2010, keep in mind.
[p. 91-92]

We are still on the Sater Unsealed documents

[p. 93]

By p. 96 they are arguing over when the lawyer first learned Sater's record was sealed



I think we've highlighted here that beginning from 2010 even all the way to 2018, someone has been working very hard to unearth and publicize Sater's record and the fact he's an informant. Last year they finally won. But even back when Sater was allegedly still working overseas with the Khrapunovs who are close in with Ablyazov, the government still had to work hard on keeping his cover as in place as possible. At least this feels logical to me. Judges continue to rule based on the redacted evidence they read on Sater to continue to keep it sealed for several years past this point.

According to this article in ZeroHedge, Sater was working on "international matters." Source
"Man Cited as Trump's 'Russian Link' Actually Works for the FBI"

Felix Sater, the man at the center of a controversial email "tying" President Trump to Russia while trying to work a business deal, has come forward in a comprehensive BuzzFeed News Exposé, which if Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Cormier and co-author Jason Leopold hadn't verified - nobody would believe.

Sater - whose code name was "The Quarterback," ended up providing such valuable information to U.S. intelligence agencies - such as five of Osama bin Laden's satellite phone numbers (by flipping Mullah Omar's personal secretary, "who was living inside a cave with bin Laden") - that the FBI and two federal prosecutors showed up at his trial after the $40 million stock scheme caught up with Sater - and vouched for him.

In 2009, 11 years after he formally started cooperating, the US government was finally going to hold up its end of the bargain. Sater headed to a federal courthouse in Brooklyn in October 2009 for his sentencing in the stock fraud scheme.
Two federal prosecutors and four FBI agents showed up to vouch for him. A transcript of that hearing is heavily redacted, but it makes clear that Sater was no ordinary cooperating witness.

Meanwhile, Sater is still working for the FBI, according to two current FBI agents. Moreover, he has relationships with at least six members of Robert Mueller's team, "some going back more than 10 years."

To this day, Sater continues to cooperate with the FBI and Justice Department, he said in his statement to the House Intelligence Committee. He wouldn't disclose additional details, except to say that he works on “international matters.” Two US officials confirmed Sater continues to be a reliable asset.

As for his regular life, when he relocated back to the US in 2010, he recalled, “Donald said, ‘Where have you been?’” Sater said Trump asked him to join the Trump Organization. “That's when I became senior advisor to him,” he said. The Trump Organization and the White House declined to comment. -BuzzFeed

In effect, Sater - at least according to BuzzFeed, is more or less a rockstar opportunist spy with a shady past, who redeemed himself as an asset for the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI.

Further down,

Sater has been summoned to discuss his affairs with congressional investigators - and is scheduled to speak with the Senate Intelligence Committee in April. Moreover, he's been questioned by Mueller's team - "several of whom he knows from his past undercover work." Of note, Mueller was the FBI director for most of the time Sater was providing undercover information.

One thing I want to highlight about what's written in ZeroHedge and other places vs. what is written elsewhere; a discrepancy about how Trump and Sater met.

In earlier articles, we read they were introduced through Trump Tower leasing agent. Sater stated in his interview with Berkeley students he just knocked on his door, and that's what ZeroHedge reports here. Was anyone just allowed to knock on Trump's door?

Another odd coincidence is an interview he gave to the NY Mag Intelligencer where he confessed he had a penthouse in another Trump building in 1996 where he under White Rock Partners committed the stock fraud scam with Salvatore Lauria.

Source

Which brings us again to the legitimate question of why Trump, who obviously has used his own private intelligence and security since at least 1999 (Keith Schiller, who became his head of security, continued to work with Sater? They would have had to have been pretty terrible investigators to have not seen the reference to Felix Satter in the 1998 case,even if much of it was sealed. Another article popped up in the NYTimes in Dec of 2007. Also, Trump continued to do deals with Sater in 2010, inviting him back to Trump Tower two offices down from him even after his reputation got ruined enough at Bayrock, he had to leave. The presumption they weren't aware of his background and that he hadn't told Trump he was working as an informant seems wrong, considering Sater himself is translated as saying in the Russian interview in 2016 that Trump knew and "was very proud."

We also know Loretta Lynch was signing his file to remain sealed in 2010, and speaking in regards to it at her nomination hearing in 2015.

Let's also factor in this evidence that Jeff Sessions quietly stepped in recently and permitted Salvatore Lauria, the person he did the original stock fraud scam with, they both cooperated together, and he is also named with Sater in the Bayrock lawsuit filed by former Bayrock Finance Director Jody Kriss.

caselaw.findlaw.com...


In Aug 2018, NY University Law Review wrote - Link

Of the more than 250,000 cases the immigration courts decide each year, between 30,000 and 46,000 are appealed to the BIA; of those, a mere handful are certified by the Attorney General for review. Certification is almost always controversial, in part because the Attorney General has used the certification power to announce new rules and overturn longstanding precedent, but also because he often does so in “a precipitous manner, without affording an adequate opportunity for parties and interested amici to provide full briefing of the serious issues involved.”

...The regulations governing certification require only that the Attorney General’s decision be stated in writing and transmitted to the BIA or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for service upon the party affected. They impose no requirement that the Attorney General give notice of the issues to be considered on review, provide an opportunity for the parties to be heard, or solicit input from amici on issues of broad significance.

I broke up the monotony of going through the Sater Unsealed files but I'm back at it.

We're on [p. 124] and one of Sater's attorneys (he used former NY prosecutors) is hammering home the point this sleazy lawyer was intentionally trying to put out the word Sater's record was under file indicating a proffer agreement or cooperation agreement was in place, and putting Sater's life and his family's life in danger. Remember during this time (2010) articles like ZeroHedge and BuzzFeed have interviewed Sater and confirmed his story through other FBI sources who stated he'd been working on "international matters" all this time. What this attorney did was reckless.


a little further down

By [p.127] for some reason the Witness Protection Program is being referenced

Further down on [p. 133] she accuses the lawyer of talking to a reporter regarding Sater's sealed case

The attorney a little further on is asked to read in full for the record wording on pg. 2 of the PSR, which was one of the documents he received from Berstein, who allegedly stole them from Sater.

[p. 145]

By [p. 158] John Doe aka Felix Sater takes the stand



It's interesting in what follows on [p. 159] informs us Sater was keeping his informant asset status from his family, and had been perhaps since 1998. This is 2010 at the time.



By [p. 165] Sater is alleging the attorney sat there in court and heard his client confess to taking documents with him.

[p. 168] Things get strange quickly

Sater's attorney doesn't want him characterized as an owner of Bayrock. Years later, he would testify he "built the company with his bare hands" if you remember a previous post.

This Bayrock court case is more recent (filed 6/20/16) but with the same familiar names: Felix Sater, Salvatore Lauria, along with a few others

Bayrock Lawsuit




The footnote on [p. 3] is interesting, asserting Tevfik Arif was actually only 18% owner of Bayrock

1 There is no evidence Trump took any part in, or knew of, their racketeering. Any contrary inference would be unjust.
2 Arif, Satter, and Schwarz intentionally omitted any mention of Satter, his shared, substantial ownership in and control
of Bayrock Group LLC, Exh. D, his majority ownership of the whole Bayrock Organization, Exh. D, and his conviction
for racketeering predicated on securities fraud, Exh. A, from the offering documents, falsely stating Arif “owned”
Bayrock Group LLC when he owned little more than half, and only about 18% of the entire Bayrock Organization.

This is contradicted again by Tevfik Arif's spokesperson according to this FT article, which went contacted for comment stated Tevfik was the sole owner of Bayrock during the time it did business with Mr. Trump. source

I want to quickly highlight here that while FL Group isn't named specifically on this lawsuit, but Bayrock Whitestone and Bayrock Camelback are both listed. Both of which were part of the $50 million deal FL Group had with Bayrock.

When you look into FL Group, you find out the controlling owner is/was Jon Asgeir Johannesson.

This from PRNewswire Link

A full copy of the New York court action will be available at www.glitnirbank.com.... It accuses Jon Asgeir Johannesson, who controlled around 39% of Glitnir's shares via various entities, of seizing effective executive control of the Bank in April 2007, by ousting Glitnir's directors and senior management and replacing them with Welding, Jonsson and other accomplices. Johannesson and the other named Defendants then used their control over the Bank to issue massive loans to, and fund a series of transactions with, other companies they controlled. In doing so, they flouted the Bank's internal risk policies, as well as Iceland's laws and financial regulations governing large exposure to connected parties. To finance these diversions, the individual Defendants relied heavily on funds which Glitnir raised in the United States throughout 2007 and, in particular, through the $1bn sale of Bonds to investors located in New York and elsewhere in the United States in September 2007. The extent of Glitnir's financial exposure to Johannesson and the companies and individuals who were connected to him was fraudulently hidden from US investors at the time of this fundraising. In the event, Johannesson's looting of Glitnir Bank failed to save Baugur, his own company, from failure; nor have the sums the individual Defendants siphoned from Glitnir ever been repaid to the Bank. The transactions made no economic sense for Glitnir, and put the Bank - and, by extension, its creditors - in extreme financial peril. Having depleted Glitnir's cash reserves, the individual Defendants left the Bank heavily exposed to the global credit crunch which struck Iceland's markets during the summer of 2007, and contributed significantly to its eventual bankruptcy. Johannesson and the other individual Defendants could not have succeeded in their schemes without the complicity of PwC. PwC knew about Glitnir's irregular related party exposures, reviewed and signed off on Glitnir financial statements which grossly misrepresented these exposures, and facilitated Glitnir's fraudulent fundraising in New York.

emphasis mine




Oct 11 2008 Daily Mail article
The FL Group-Bayrock-$50mil (Recall the deal/money was 5/22/2007.


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i.dailymail.co.uk...

They hosted an impromptu get-together for friends at Hotel 101 on Friday night as their island nation effectively went bankrupt, owing Britain £20billion and others £15billion. That is £116,000 for every one of its 320,000 inhabitants. ‘It is like being in Hell and watching all the little devils enjoying the last days of normal life in Iceland,’ said an elderly diner.

So Stodir is the new name for FL Group. FL Group was renamed in 2005 and became Stodir. (In 2005, the company known as Flugleiðir was changed to an investment company called FL GROUP. Apparently it was Flugleiðir from 1978-2005).

According to Wiki, after the US real estate bubble had burst in 2008, FL Group divested itself of its real estate projects in the US.

The Trump Tower project, along with other US based real estate projects, were moved to a subsidiary of FL Group called FL Bayrock Holdco.

In April 2008, 39% of Stodir was sold to Styrkur Invest, a company Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson controlled. Then delisted from the Iceland Stock Exchange after a share buyback (the same day).

Jón Ásgeir stepped down as Chairman later that month after a conviction for breaking accounting laws. His wife Ingibjorg Stefania Palmadottir was elected as his replacement. On July 4, FL Group announced both that it had changed its name to Stodir and acquired a 39% stake in retail holding company Baugur Group.

By September, Stodir had filed an application for a debt moratorium process which prompted the Government of Iceland to acquire 75% of the bank Glitnir, because Stodir had held nearly a 1/3 stake (32%). FL Bayrock Holdco posted more than $140 million in USD losses and declared bankruptcy in Jan 2014, which cost investors and creditors nearly 130 million.

So who is Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson? Link
First of all, we learn he's associated with Baugur Group.
In August 1992, Bónus's main competitor, Hagkaup, bought a 50% share in Bónus; Hagkaup was owned by the children of its founder, Pálmi Jónsson,[5] one of whom, Ingibjörg Stefanía Pálmadóttir, Jón would later marry. Baugur Group was created to co-ordinate purchases by the two chains in 1993; following at times acrimonious negotiations between Jón Ásgeir and Pálmi's children, Baugur succeeded in acquiring Hagkaup in 1998, with Jón Ásgeir as CEO, making him 'one of the most powerful businessmen in Iceland'.

I'll add more tomorrow. I knew this would be an undertaking.

If there was anyone who was still paying attention to this thread, I plan to add more by tonight. Had some stuff come up.

For now, here's a pic from the Sater-Bayrock lawsuit and excerpt about the Bayrock setup/structure.
Again, as a reminder there is repeated contradictory information regarding the true owner of Bayrock.
Per Tevfik Arif through his spokesperson, he is the owner of the company. Per the diagram here, he is the top tier. From the footnote listed above in the lawsuit, Tevfik only owned 18%.

Sater-Bayrock Lawsuit, [p. 10]