Cohen, Sater Discussed Giving Putin Penthouse In Trump Moscow Project

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, exits federal court, November 29, 2018 in New York City. At the court hearing, Cohen pleaded making false statements to Congress about a Moscow real estate project Trump pursued during the months he was running for president. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, exits federal court, November 29, 2018 in New York City. At the court hearing, Cohen pleaded guilty to making false state... NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, exits federal court, November 29, 2018 in New York City. At the court hearing, Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about a Moscow real estate project Trump pursued during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Felix Sater, childhood friend and business associate of Michael Cohen, told BuzzFeed News Thursday that he and Cohen considered giving Russian President Vladimir Putin the penthouse in the Trump Organization’s Moscow building project under consideration at late as 2016.

Cohen pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about the project, which would have placed a Trump building in Russia’s capital.

“In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin,” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.”

BuzzFeed said a second unnamed source confirmed that plan, and that in addition, two unnamed law enforcement officials confirmed that Cohen and Sater discussed the proposal with Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov.

Sater recalled to BuzzFeed that Cohen called the plan a “great idea.” Cohen did not comment for its report, BuzzFeed said.

Trump said Thursday that he “wasn’t trying to hide anything” about the potential Russia deal — but he repeatedly said during the 2016 campaign that he had nothing to do with Russia.

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  1. Lord what fools these mortals be.

  2. Bottomless rabbit hole and infinite shit…which one wins…does the hole stay empty or do they fill it? Or is this some sort of Hawking-Einstein cosmic physics situation where the bottomless rabbit hole is proven by 6 chalkboards of equations to be half full?

  3. Greed. It’ll getcha every time.

    Karma’s having a field day today.

  4. Damn straight. I hope Karma is not exhausted from all the winning by the end of the week, nah. :wink:

    This is glorious.

  5. Because Putin takes what he wants, and Trump & Co. would have to kick back 3/4 of the extra $250,000 back to Vlad.

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