Judge To Unseal Court Case Files Involving Trump Associate

By JEFF HORWITZ and JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Tue, 05/10/2016 - 5:03pm

The unusual case involves whether two lawyers should be held in criminal contempt for revealing details about the role of Felix Sater, a former Trump business associate, in orchestrating a Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme and his subsequent cooperation with the U.S. government. At Tuesday's hearing, an attorney for the AP questioned the level of secrecy in the case, arguing that at least some of the 38 documents kept secret appeared to be legal papers related to an earlier order to seal that make no mention of government cooperation or other criminal matters — and which no party to the case had even requested to be sealed. The judge also urged the Justice Department to conclude its deliberations whether to charge Lerner and Oberlander with contempt. Because federal prosecutors in the U.S.

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