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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow sleazy is Trump Tower? First, it's 58 stories but tRump claims it's 68
From a 2/23/2018 ABC News 13 story The controversial residents of Trump Tower
Trump Tower contains many stories-58 stories according to city records, or 68 stories according to Donald Trump who had the residential elevator buttons skip 10 floors to make the building seem bigger.
As special counsel Robert Mueller continues to investigate possible Russian connections to the Trump campaign, here's a look at some of the most controversial residents of Trump Tower over the years.
63rd floor -- Vadim Trincher's former condo
Trincher was a leader of a Russian-American crime ring that operated an international gambling operation from Trump Tower. The ring laundered over $100 million, according to the U.S. attorney's office and FBI.
Prosecutors said Trincher coordinated with his neighbor a dozen floors below.
51st floor -- Hillel "Helly" Nahmad owned multiple condos on this floor
Nahmad acquired nearly an entire floor of the building over the course of a decade for an estimated $21 million, according to listings on StreetEasy.
Trincher, Nahmad and dozens of others pleaded guilty to charges connected to the gambling operation, while their alleged ringleader, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, slipped away as a fugitive in Moscow where he attended Trump's Miss Universe Competition just months after the FBI conducted a raid of Trincher's apartment in 2013.
49th floor -- former rental apartment of ex-FIFA official Chuck Blazer
Blazer rented an $18,000 per month apartment for himself and a second $6,000 per month apartment primarily for his cats. According to Blazer's former girlfriend Mary Lynn Blanks, Blazer also enjoyed attending Trump's Miss Universe competitions and let Trump film a commercial for Trump University in his apartment.
A decade later, Trump would settle lawsuits brought by students against the now-defunct Trump University for $25 million. He never admitted to wrongdoing.
Blazer went on to befriend Russian President Vladimir Putin and voted for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup before admitting in court to taking bribes and pleading guilty to tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud.
43rd floor -- condo of Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort
Manafort purchased his $3.6 million Trump Tower condo in 2006.
But federal investigators now allege that Manafort made millions working as an unregistered foreign agent for pro-Russian political leaders and charged him with conspiracy and money laundering last October. He has pleaded not guilty and has filed a lawsuit challenging the broad authority of Mueller.
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How sleazy is Trump Tower? First, it's 58 stories but tRump claims it's 68 (Original Post)
Julian Englis
Apr 2018
OP
Lies about floors in his building. I don't think anything he says is true.
democratisphere
Apr 2018
#1
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. Lies about floors in his building. I don't think anything he says is true.
Problem is lies are becoming the new normal, and acceptable.
dchill
(38,505 posts)3. Donald Trump cannot tell an unvarnished truth.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)2. FIRE BLAZING in trump hotel in NY right now
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)4. Probably pruned the shrubbery out front to make it look taller.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)5. Does The Donald have a size problem?
http://nymag.com/news/articles/shortlist/trump/
Edifice Complex
Does The Donald have a size problem? Until recently, he exaggerated claims about the height of his buildings.
BY JAY CHESHES
November 30, 2001
We're here to help the Donald. If he wants to deemphasize the height of his buildings for potentially nervous guests, he needs only to admit that they were not as tall as he claimed in the first place. Behold the evidence.
Trump World Tower
845 U.N. Plaza
Number of floors claimed: 90
Actual number of floors: 70
Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue
Claimed: 68
Actual: 58
Trump International Hotel and Tower
1 Central Park West
Original number of floors: 45
After renovation: 52
Trump Plaza
167 E. 61st St.
Claimed: 39
Actual: 36
Edifice Complex
Does The Donald have a size problem? Until recently, he exaggerated claims about the height of his buildings.
BY JAY CHESHES
November 30, 2001
We're here to help the Donald. If he wants to deemphasize the height of his buildings for potentially nervous guests, he needs only to admit that they were not as tall as he claimed in the first place. Behold the evidence.
Trump World Tower
845 U.N. Plaza
Number of floors claimed: 90
Actual number of floors: 70
Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue
Claimed: 68
Actual: 58
Once lauded by the New York Times as "Mr. Trump's least bad bad building," with its peach marble, indoor waterfall, and gold flecked opulence, this dated Fifth Avenue landmark reeks of 1980s excess. According to city records, nearly 20 years after its completion it still hasn't sprouted those missing 10 floors.
Trump International Hotel and Tower
1 Central Park West
Original number of floors: 45
After renovation: 52
Trump Plaza
167 E. 61st St.
Claimed: 39
Actual: 36
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)6. He's a pathological liar, even when 58 stories stare him in the face with the truth. nt
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)7. He can't tell the truth about anything. It's pathological.
I used to work at 712 5th Avenue on the 50th floor which is kitty-corner to Trump Towers and I noticed that TT was only a little bit taller than our building was. There was no way it was 68 floors. Strangely, as close as I was, I never set foot in that building. Even then I had a distaste for anything with the Trump name on it.
What is with his obsession with being the biggest, the richest, the most popular? He is none of those things and so he lies about them to prop up his fragile, pathetic little ego.
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)8. The size of his hands
or the weight of his mass, his truths are carried by the breeze.