Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is reportedly looking beyond whether President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in last year's election. It's also looking at Trump's finances on projects like his Manhattan building Trump SoHo. One of the developers of Trump SoHo is a company called Bayrock, and one of the people at Bayrock was a man named Felix Sater. To know about him is to understand how Trump does business and who he does business with. For my podcast Embedded, NPR's Alina Selyukh, Jim Zarroli and I start with Felix Sater's background. JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: Sater was from the former Soviet Union, came here as a child living in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, which is home to a lot of Russian immigrants. MCEVERS: Felix Sater's father had a criminal history. He once pled guilty to extortion charges. DAVID BARRY: He wanted Felix to be an above-board businessman. ZARROLI: That's David Barry. He's a former AP
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