It’s beginning to look like Special Counsel Mueller will catch President Trump and his three eldest children committing the first ever reality TV show assisted financial crime, all collaborating in a $350 million dollar bank fraud.

Three weeks ago, Bloomberg News reported that Mueller is focusing on the lower Manhattan Trump Soho Hotel deal and Vanity Fair reported today that new emails reveal the Trump family’s participation in a criminal enterprise there.

The Russian money trail leads right through the president’s troubled project in downtown Manhattan. A series of e-mails reveals new details.

Tonight, we’ve obtained leaked copies of those emails which are embedded below.

These leaked emails are the first evidence that proves that Donald Trump and his family personally knew of Felix Sater’s felony crime and participated in a meeting about covering it up.

Donald Trump hawked the Trump SoHo Condo Hotel extensively on NBC’s The Apprentice, but committed a bank fraud to keep the project afloat the following year, and dragged his family into it.

The newly leaked emails from the Sapir Organization’s attorney document a “time sensitive and should not be pushed back” meeting the Trumps demanded on January 21st, 2008.

The meeting happened soon after the New York Times publicly revealed in mid-December 2007 that the Trump Organization’s investor and SoHo partner Bayrock Company’s manager-member Felix Sater had secretly entered financial felony plea deal in the late 1990s.

Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka and sons Don Jr. and Eric collectively demanded and presumably attended the important meeting to chew out Bayrock about the project, and specifically Felix Sater about his felony past.

We know because Sater wrote Bayrock’s investors complaining that his own company wanted to fire him after meeting the Trumps.

Hiding a financial felon’s involvement is a form of criminal bank fraud. The Trump SoHo project ultimately failed and was foreclosed by lenders.

Instead of informing banks and buyers about Sater’s criminal past, as was the Trump Organization’s obligation, the Trump family proceeded to keep the felony secret as Sater engaged in a scheme to hide his interests in the deal.

The Trump family proceeded to squeeze their partner Sater to take his financial stake in the deal. (prior email)

There are major legal ramifications for the Trump-Sater meeting because the project is already the subject of an ongoing RICO civil trial by a whistleblower who worked inside the Bayrock Company; that is, the Trump SoHo hotel is being accused of operating a criminal enterprise.

These kinds of RICO cases are subject to enforcement in both civil lawsuits with tripled damages and criminal law, with jail and restitution to the victims as the penalty.

Here is the smoking gun email showing that the Trump family and all partners in the venture attended the meeting (full chain embedded below) to discuss Sater’s felony past, which they then kept secret:

The Trump family’s urgent request for meeting is conveyed by lawyers for his partners in Trump SoHo, the Sapir Organization

The newly leaked email chain also confirms a major German public television report on Trump SoHo that the Trumps participated in concealing a felon’s association in their hotel.

ZDF interviewed financial fraud expert Professor William Black, who was told the fact pattern of the Trump SoHo frauds — without the names of the participants — and he concluded based on their thorough reporting that the first family committed a bank fraud that violated the federal RICO Act.

The Trumps Stood To Benefit Financially From Participating In A Criminal Enterprise

The information about Trump and Sater defrauding banks has come to light only because attorneys Fred Oberlander and Richard Lerner refused to back down. They filed and are litigating two of the civil cases against the Trump SoHo’s developers.

Federal judges and prosecutors threatened them with prosecution for revealing that Sater was given an illegally light sentence for his crime, in secret. The judges even issued an order that gagged them from telling Congress about the judges’ own misconduct, but the attorneys persisted and are pursuing a civil law claim against the developers of Trump SoHo.

The attorney Richard Lerner has since written an extensive, fact-checked article about the harmful effects of secret sentencing in Law360 based on his wild experiences in the Trump SoHo case with Sater, who became an FBI informant against his mafia partners in the scheme.

The Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is America’s top anti-mafia federal law and the threshold for violating the law is merely participating in a business which engages in a pattern of illegal or fraudulent behavior.

New York state also has a RICO law, which is not subject to the powers of the Presidential pardon and could be enforced by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, alongside any federal investigation.

“The statute of limitations on RICO acts lasts for ten years from the last known act,” for RICO based upon bank fraud, according to lawyer Joshua Gold, who is licensed to practice in New York since 1999. “These emails are less than ten years old.”

Even though Trump’s participation in the project dates back to far more than ten years ago — and was far more than just licensing the family’s brand name — only criminal acts like hiding his partner’s felony count, start the clock ticking on the ten years a prosecutor could call forth a criminal case on the matter.

Hawking the Trump SoHo Hotel on NBC’s The Apprentice

During Season 5 of NBC’s “The Apprentice” Donald Trump awarded a job at the Trump SoHo Hotel to winner Sean Yazbek in February 2006.

Later, Donald Trump pitched the Trump SoHo Condo Hotel project on The Apprentice in early September 2007. He launched the boxy tower shortly thereafter according to the New York Daily News with “servers in masks pour champagne while Cirque du Soleil performed. The reigning Miss USA attended.”

The following year when major Wall Street firms failed, killing real estate lending markets for years, Donald Trump didn’t want to scare his lenders by admitting the truth, but he stopped hawking the SoHo deal on TV.

By the end of 2009, the New York Times reported that the condotel market had been dead as far back as 2007, giving Donald Trump a lot of incentive to conceal crucial information that would cause his lenders to repossess his tower then.

Eventually, lenders did foreclose on the property and sold off the Trump SoHo condo after 2/3rds of the units remained unsold in 2014.

In Trump SoHo’s three active civil litigations which includes one RICO lawsuit, and a suit Vanity Fair reports is related to an official from a former-Soviet Republic who bought units at Trump Soho, the Trump family is not a named defendant, but this new evidence could subject them to criminal liability.

The email with Sater’s after-action report that described the meeting with the Trump family in detail was released last October in Forbes. It revealed Trump’s future Senior Advisor describing his scheme to defraud the banks to his project’s Icelandic equity investors from Stodir (aka FL Group), who themselves went bankrupt only 9 months later.

Sater intricately recounted the story of Bayrock’s General Counsel Julius Schwarz's attempt to immediately force him out of Bayrock over the revelation of his felony conviction which he described as “damaging.”

One of the Bayrock Company whistleblowers suing Trump’s partners for RICO violations learned that Sater financed the SoHo hotel with money from Vladimir Putin, via Icelandic investors.

Special Counsel Mueller will have his hands full unraveling all of the Russian money connections to the Trump SoHo project.

It’s increasingly looking like there is substantive proof of criminal ties between the Trump family and Felix Sater, which may deliver the evidence of crime prosecutors seek to flip witnesses against larger targets.

Theoretically, even Donald Trump’s children could turn into the state’s witnesses against their father, the President because he dragged them into the Trump SoHo bank fraud scheme and cover up of their shady real estate deal partners’ financial crimes.

Here are the two sets of smoking gun emails, with the exclusive email chain linked here and on the left:

Click here for the prior email chain where Felix Sater describes his fraud scheme in detail to his Icelandic investors.