What We Now Know About The Trump Tower Moscow Project
By Josh Kovensky
November 29, 2018 11:10 am
When did the Trump Organization stop trying to build a tower in Moscow?
The story from Trump’s allies has evolved since the 2016 election, with a yet another new answer revealed Thursday when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty plea to one false statements charge in relation to his work the project
The court documents made public on Thursday revealed that Cohen’s attempt to land a Trump Organization project in Russia lasted further into the year than had previously been reported.
The plea shows that Cohen lied about when talks ended, and that they continued until June 2016, not January 2016, as he had previously stated to congressional investigators. Cohen also admitted to contacting high-level Russian officials in preparation for a trip to Russia as part of the deal.
Until today, relatively little was known about the attempts between 2015 and 2016 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Felix Sater (pictured above on the right), a Russian-born fixer and occasional real estate developer told TPM in August 2017 that he worked on the project as late as November 2015. He also said that the Russian business partners would not have been the Agalarov brothers, who hosted Trump in the Russian capital for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
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