Ex-Trump Advisor Felix Sater Gets New Money-Laundering Trial (1)

Felix Sater, the controversial real estate operative who was once part of President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle, won his fight for a new trial in a Kazakh bank’s civil money laundering suit against him in New York.

Sater’s request for a new trial was granted Wednesday by US District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan, dealing a blow to the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and one of the country’s biggest lenders, BTA Bank. Their 2019 lawsuit accused Sater and others of helping a wealthy Kazakh man launder millions of dollars through US real estate, including condos at the Trump ...