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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJust What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?
I've spent years investigating, and here's what's known.
By David Cay Johnston
May 22, 2016
In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months. Most potential owners were scrutinized for more than a year. Trump argued that he was clean as a whistleyoung enough that he hadnt had time to get into any sort of trouble. He got the sped-up background check, and eventually got the casino license.
But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, hed hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony Fat Tony Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.
Why did Trump get his casino license anyway? Why didnt investigators look any harder? And how deep did his connections to criminals really go?
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910#ixzz49PTy3FYe
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Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? (Original Post)
BootinUp
May 2016
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Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)1. Any real estate developer in New York...
Has ties to organized crime. My family has many union construction members in Manhattan, so this is obvious to all of them so they say. And, this is probably one of the reasons why he doesn't want to release his tax returns...
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)2. I fear
he wants to grab the national parks to build more Trump Towers
No doubt construction and federal asset sales
Is this why he's sucking up to Christie, to keep the legal aspects
on the NJ side quiet?
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)4. And "unused" government buildings
like libraries and post offices, etc.
So his hair has always been like that???
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)5. shouldn't this be in gd? its not really a dem primary issue...
unless we connect it to hillarys ties to wall st, then it is TOTALLY a primary issue...
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)6. Let me fix it. Hillary's Just as Bad!!!!! Bla bla bla
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)7. there ya go :) nt