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House panel grills businessman on Russia contacts

(9 Jul 2019) A Russia-born business executive who worked with President Donald Trump's associates on an effort to build a skyscraper in Moscow is on Capitol Hill Tuesday talking to congressional investigators. Felix Sater is talking to staff on the House intelligence committee as part of the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The panel's chairman, California Rep. Adam Schiff, subpoenaed Sater last month after he didn't show up for a scheduled interview. The panel is investigating contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Sater worked with Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on the skyscraper deal before the 2016 election. The project was later abandoned, and Cohen is now in prison, partly on charges that he lied to Congress about the project. Sater spoke to reporters briefly when he was returning from a break from the interview. He said that he spoke to Cohen about the skyscraper deal and denied speaking "extensively" to Trump about it. He also claimed that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson had ties to Russia. Fusion GPS was behind a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trump's connections to Russia. Republicans have argued that the dossier was inappropriately used by the Justice Department before the election as investigators obtained a warrant to put one of Trump's campaign advisers under surveillance. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...