A U.S. judge is urging the Obama administration to not publicily disclose the once-secret criminal history of a former Donald Trump business partner.
As reported by the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of New York said unless the Justice Department acts before April 18, he’ll decide whether to make public thousands of pages of the court files under the assumption that federal prosecutors do not care.
The case involves Trump’s business associate Felix Sater, who plead guilty to a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme in the 1990’s and cooperated with government procesuctors.
It was also reported in December, even though Trump knew of Sater’s background he gave him a business development role in 2010. That role included making Sater one of Trump’s senior advisers.
