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15. Bayrock Group

15. Bayrock Group

15.1. General

  • Numerous reports related to Trump and Bayrock in NY can be found here. Source

15.2. Trump

  • 11/12/2013 - A replica of Bayrock/Sapir’s Trump Soho hotel may be Moscow’s first big new hotel in ten years. Alex Sapir and Rotem Rosen of the Sapir Organization, co-developers on the Soho hotel at 246 Spring Street, met with Russian developer Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump over the weekend to discuss plans for the new project — Trump’s first in Russia. Source
  • 4/5/2016 - Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed. Source
  • 08/15/2016 – Bayrock funded multiple Trump projects Worldwide Company practically embedded with him. Source
  • 10/25/2016 – Trump had numerous deals and made millions off of partnership with Bayrock via Felix Sater and Arif Tevfik. Source

15.3. Tevfik Arif

15.3.1 Relationship with Trump

  • 4/5/2016 - Mr. Trump said that the two had discussed “numerous deals all over the world” and that Mr. Arif had brought potential Russian investors to Mr. Trump’s office to meet him. Source

15.3.2 Relationship with Russia

  • 10/1/2010 - Arif worked for the USSR’s Ministry of Commerce and Trade for 17 years. Source

15.4. Felix Sater

15.4.1 Relationship with Trump

  • 2013 - Trump walks out of BBC interview when pressured about relationship with Sater. Source
  • 12/10/2015 – ABC investigative report on Trump’s relationship with Sater. Source
  • 4/5/2016 - “Mr. Trump has sought to distance himself from Mr. Sater in recent years. If Mr. Sater “were sitting in the room right now,” Mr. Trump said in a 2013 deposition, “I really wouldn’t know what he looked like.” - Source
  • 5/17/2016 – Sater has links to the Russian Mob. Source
  • 8/26/2016 – Sater donates $5,400 to the Trump campaign and visited Trump tower for “confidential reasons”. Source
  • 10/3/2016 - Felix Sater has testified that he joined Bayrock, controlled by Tevfik Arif, around 2002. Bayrock was based in Trump Tower. In a sworn deposition in 2008, Sater testified that he would pitch business ideas to Trump (“just me and him”) and his team (“on a constant basis”). Source
  • 7/14/2016 - A Manhattan judge has unsealed a civil tax fraud case brought in behalf of New York State against associates of Donald Trump. The suit accuses convicted racketeer and Felix Sater, Bayrock Group, and prominent law firms of conspiring to launder as much as $250 million dollars of profit on Trump projects Bayrock was co-developing out of the country in a scheme to evade $100 million dollars of state and federal income tax. Source

15.4.2 Relationship with Russia

  • 5/17/2016 - Russian-born businessman and director of Bayrock Group LLC, a firm preferred by Russian oligarchs. Source

15.4.3 Involvement in the Flynn Scandal

  • 2/19/2017 - “Mr. Sater, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump’s with connections in Russia, was willing to help Mr. Artemenko’s proposal reach the White House.” Source

15.5. Trump SoHo

  • 4/5/2016 – Trump Soho financed by Bayrock, an Icelandic firm preferred by Russian Oligarchs with ties to Putin. Source