"He was never accused of illegality, and observers of the time say that working with the mob-related figures and politicos came with the territory."
You are so dumb.
From the Washington Post:
Investigations
Trump swam in mob-infested waters in early years as an NYC developer
The companies included S&A Concrete , which supplied building material to the Trump Plaza on Manhattan’s East Side, court records show. S&A was owned by Anthony “Fat Tony†Salerno, boss of the Genovese crime family, and Paul Castellano, boss of the Gambino family. The men required that major multimillion-dollar construction projects obtain concrete through S&A at inflated prices, according to a federal indictment of Salerno and others.
Salerno eventually went to prison on federal racketeering, bid-rigging and other charges. His attorney, Roy Cohn, the former chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), was one of the most politically connected men in Manhattan. He was also Trump’s friend and occasionally his attorney. Cohn was never charged over any dealings with the mob, but he was disbarred shortly before his death in 1986 for ethical and financial improprieties.
“The construction industry in New York City has learned to live comfortably with pervasive corruption and racketeering,†according to “Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry,†a 1990 report by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. “Perhaps those with strong moral qualms were long ago driven from the industry; it would have been difficult for them to have survived. ‘One has to go along to get along.’ â€
James B. Jacobs, the report’s principal author, told The Post that Trump and other major developers at the time “had to adapt to that environment†or do business in
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As his ambitions expanded in the 1970s and 1980s, Trump had to contend with New York’s Cosa Nostra in order to complete his projects. By the 1980s, crime families had a hand in all aspects of the contracting industry, including labor unions, government inspections, building supplies and trash carting.
Trump has been in bed with the New York crime families for decades.