Update 6:00 p.m. ET March 25: The House Intelligence Committee postponed Felix Sater's public testimony, which was scheduled for Wednesday, March 27. The committee said it was postponing the testimony so it could focus on the Mueller report.
Original report: Felix Sater, a Soviet-born New Your businessman who prosecutors say lobbied Russian officials to approve the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow, will be testifying before a House committee in two weeks.
Sater, who served as managing director for New York-based real estate firm the Bayrock Group, worked with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to advance the Trump Tower Moscow real estate project, according to federal prosecutors.
In September 2015, Sater set up a meeting to discuss a possible deal to build a Trump-owned property in Moscow, three months after Trump announced he would run for president, the Washington Post reported.
According to court filings, Cohen and someone identified as “Individual 2” — who is believed to be Sater — discussed efforts to get the Russian government to approve the Trump Tower Moscow real estate deal from that September 2015 discussion to as late as June 2016.
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According to the court filing, in 2016, Sater also discussed with Cohen the idea that Cohen would travel to Russia to talk with Russian government officials about the project.
That meeting did not take place.
The Trump campaign said that discussions about Trump Tower Moscow had ended well before June 2016.
Sater met with Senate investigators in April of 2018 after emails between him and Cohen discussing the proposed deal were discovered.
Sater may also be questioned about a meeting he had with Cohen and a Ukrainian official. According to The New York Times, Sater met with Andrii V. Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician, and Cohen in New York in January 2017 to discuss sanctions that had been put on Russia by the Obama Administration.
The story said that Sater was given a letter that proposed a deal that had the U.S. lifting those sanctions after Russia agreed to withdraw its forces from eastern Ukraine. The letter was to go to Cohen to be delivered to Michael Flynn, the then-national security adviser to the president.
According to the Times, Cohen left the letter in Flynn’s office after he visited Trump in the White House.
Below is what you need to know about his testimony. Check back here for live updates from the hearing.
What day: Wednesday, March 27
What time: The time for the start of the hearing has not been announced. Check back here for an update.
What channel: The hearing will be broadcast live on cable news channels and livestreamed.
Live coverage: Check back here for live updates throughout the day from the hearing.
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