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Felix Sater

Real estate developer associated with Donald Trump

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Nov 29, 2025
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What evidence has been presented linking Donald Trump or his businesses to Russian money laundering?

Investigations and reporting over the past decade have identified patterns and transactions that raise credible suspicions that Trump-branded properties and some Trump-related entities attracted Russi...

Nov 10, 2025
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Have any Trump Organization properties received funding from Russian investors?

Multiple reputable investigations and reporting have established that , particularly in South Florida, though direct, documented cases of the Trump Organization receiving structured, traceable “fundin...

Dec 4, 2025
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What loans or investments did Russian banks or oligarchs provide to Donald Trump or his businesses?

Investigations and reporting show substantial Russian-linked investment into Trump-branded real estate (at least about $98–100 million in Florida condo purchases) and long-running lending ties between...

Jan 19, 2026

Has Russia sustained trump during financial hard times

The record compiled by investigative outlets, newspaper reporting and archival research shows that Russian money — from wealthy individuals, oligarch-linked buyers and opaque cash buyers — played a ma...

Jan 12, 2026

What are the links between trump and putin on casino funding?

The documented links between Donald Trump’s casino-era finances and figures tied to Russia are circumstantial but persistent: investigators and reporters have traced investments by Russian or former-S...

Dec 6, 2025

What were the specifics of Trump's business dealings in Russia prior to his presidency?

Donald Trump pursued Russia-facing business opportunities from the late 1980s through the 2010s but, by most accounts in available reporting, never closed a major real-estate deal in Moscow; his organ...

Dec 1, 2025

What key documents from the Trump Organization investigations show Russian financial links?

Key public documents and reporting that have been cited as evidence of Russian financial links to the Trump Organization include investigative reporting showing nearly $100 million of Russian money in...

Nov 25, 2025

What specific Trump business deals have been alleged to involve Russian financing and who reported them?

Reporting over the last decade has repeatedly alleged that some Trump Organization deals involved Russian or Russian-linked money, most prominently condo and development projects and a planned Trump T...

Jan 15, 2026

How much Russian investment went into Trump Organization projects?

The best public accounting to date puts identifiable Russian investment into Trump-branded U.S. real-estate projects in the tens of millions — Reuters’ 2017 review identified nearly $100 million of Ru...

Dec 31, 2025

How did Trump's business ties to Russian financiers evolve before, during, and after his presidency?

Donald Trump’s financial entanglement with Russian-connected money evolved from tentative deal-seeking in the 1980s and transactional relationships in the 1990s–2000s to a contested web of third‑party...

Dec 9, 2025

Which court cases, indictments, or civil suits have alleged financial wrongdoing by Trump connected to Russian actors?

Reporting and investigations have repeatedly raised questions about Donald Trump’s business ties to Russian actors, but the sources provided do not list a clear, single indictment or court case that c...

Dec 8, 2025

What role did Michael Cohen and Felix Sater play in potential Trump–Russia business negotiations?

Michael Cohen worked as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and intermediary on a proposed Trump Tower Moscow, coordinating with Felix Sater — a longtime contact who told Cohen he could “get all of Putin’s...

Dec 7, 2025

Which specific Russian oligarchs provided funding or loans to Trump projects since the 1980s?

Reporting and investigative projects identify multiple Russian-linked billionaires and post‑Soviet investors tied to Trump projects since the late 1980s—most commonly as buyers of condos or partners i...

Dec 6, 2025

What role did Russian real estate deals and licensing agreements play in funding Trump's businesses?

Russian-linked buyers and investors contributed tens of millions to Trump-branded U.S. real-estate projects, and some reporting ties Russian capital and intermediaries to deals — including Bayrock/Tru...

Dec 4, 2025

Which Russian banks and oligarchs are publicly documented as having financial ties to Donald Trump or his companies?

Publicly documented links between Donald Trump (and his companies) and Russian banks, oligarchs or Kremlin-linked financiers include: documented Russian-born buyers of Trump condos (at least $98.4 mil...

Nov 28, 2025

Which Trump Organization projects were linked to Russian investors and what evidence supports those links?

Reporting identifies several Trump Organization projects — notably Trump SoHo, multiple Trump-branded South Florida condominiums, the failed Trump Tower Moscow pitch and other Bayrock-linked developme...

Nov 26, 2025

What role did Deutsche Bank, Bayrock, or other intermediaries play in connecting Russian capital to Trump ventures?

Deutsche Bank served as one of the few major lenders willing to extend large credit lines to Donald Trump’s businesses from the late 1990s into the 2010s while the same institution was embroiled in la...