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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTRUMP's Polish Brigade: "We worked in horrid, terrible conditions"
Mr. Kozak, like other laborers on that job, has no hope of collecting about $4,000 in back wages from a contracting company that began the demolition and later became insolvent. But after almost two decades, the demolition workers are still struggling to compel Mr. Trump and his business associates to compensate a union's welfare funds and thus increase pension and medical benefits for some of the Polish workers.
Mr. Kozak is now a party and witness in a class-action lawsuit that has meandered through the Federal courts for 15 years and charges that Mr. Trump owes $4 million to the union welfare funds for the work the Poles performed. Filed in 1983, the suit has been bogged down by a torrent of motions and appeals of judicial decisions and by the deaths of a judge, a lawyer, the original lead plaintiffs, an important witness and two of Mr. Trump's co-defendants
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/nyregion/after-15-years-in-court-workers-lawsuit-against-trump-faces-yet-another-delay.html
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Hairplug's approval will be near-zero by the time the Mighty Wurlitzer revs up to spit out its hagiography of Jebthro.
there isn't a sex tape......
peace to you once again Octafish,
kp
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Most Americans aren't going to give a shit if undocumented workers get shafted. They'll say "good, get the fuck out of here". I think donald is a clown but he's tapped into something that resonates with enough voters that he's leading the polls for the gop nomination - I don't see that changing any time soon.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)or the past decade there have been allegations of links between Donald Trump and the mafia including both New York and Philadelphia crime families. These possible mob links have been the focus of past news paper reports along with government records. According to some including NY investigative journalist Wayne Barrett the connections between Trump and the mafia are rather extensive. In his book Trump: The Deals and the Downfall by Barrett, Wayne 1st edition (1992) Hardcover, he claims that Trump went out his way not to avoid but increase ties with organized crime influence in the New York and New Jersey construction industry in the 80s and 90s.
According to records Trump Plaza the Atlantic City Casino built by Trump sits on land purchased from former Philadelphia mobster Salvatore Testa. Barrett notes in his book that the property was purchased by Testa in 1977 for a scant $195,000 and was then sold to Trump in 1982 for a whopping $1.1 million. The purchase of the property at a rate of $220 per square foot was second most expensive purchases Donald made on the block even though it was one of the first purchased writes Barrett. A 1986 New Jersey organized crime report also notes that the casino was built with help of two construction companies controlled by Philadelphia mobsters Nicademo Little Nicky Scarfo and Phillip Crazy Phil Leonetti.
Trump Plaza condos in Manhattan were built with use of a concrete company S&A which federal court records show was controlled by New York mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Anthony Salerno. Barrett notes in his book that the Trump Towers was built out of concrete instead of steel during a time when the New York mob had control of the majority of the cities concrete industry. During the time when the Trump Tower was built it was nearly impossible for any developer to avoid doing business with the mafia controlled concrete cartel but according to Barrett Trump may have taken the relationship further then he had to.
Trump was part of a 1979 bribery investigation and then a 1981 racketeering probe neither of which led to any kind of charges according to records. None of the possible links between Donald Trump and the mob have ever been substantiated past their basic business ties by law enforcement or anyone else to date. There is no doubt that much of the time Trump did business in the construction industry in both New York and New Jersey that contact with mob controlled companies was almost unavoidable. But it is certain that as Trumps run to become President of the United States in the 2016 election becomes more extensive so will the scrutiny of these allegations.
http://aboutthemafia.com/donald-trump-and-the-mafia
You did business and construction in NY and NJ during the 80s there was no way you didn't encounter the mob.
Truth will out