Posted on 08/11/2015 8:19:33 PM PDT by topher
(CNN)Donald Trump's glittering empire of New York skyscrapers and Atlantic City casinos have long had a darker side, allegations that the mob helped build them.
Trump's alleged ties to New York and Philadelphia crime families go back decades and have been recounted in a book, newspapers and government records.
"The mob connections of Donald are extraordinarily extensive," New York investigative journalist Wayne Barrett told CNN in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
She frightens me.
Better Mafia connections than Marxist ones.
I wonder if she met “Little Bill”?
Haven’t read this, but BOY are they going after him. Hillary must be shaking in her boots.
The Mafia protected the Eastern Ports from Nazi sabotage during WWII, so there is that.
The mob. How quaint. The Federal government is the biggest baddest criminal organization in the world.
These federal elections will mean very little. The Fed gov is TF squared.
That is one very interesting photograph. Bubba does indeed have some very deep familial roots.
You really think Buggsy Seagall was clean?
I have seen this **** all mylife
They come around, hand out turkeys and lean on you for the favor and ask for your vote..
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2392956185/
> You can think what you want. But, there were some who wanted licenses who didnt get them because of their ties to the mob.
Probably because they were related go the wrong families... lol
I used to give a lift home to one of the children of a former well known mob family all the time when I was younger but didn’t really think about it much. When they were home they acted just like any other family. Actually probably a little closer. I guess the family that kills together stays together...lol
I used to be a member of the mashed potato gang. We didn’t do drive by shootings. We felt it was much more humiliating to hit a man with mashed potatoes and brown gravy. Many of our victims have heard to exclaim “I with the mother ....er had shot me.”
I stole that from a stand up comic. Can’t remember his name.
Yet another thing that his advocates like him for.
This shows you how deep the relationship between the Clintons and Bushes are. I was duped by W. Once.
Mafia, union thugs, democRATs...it's all the same thing.
You build a building in NYC and Atlantic City guess who you work with on contracts?
So it's a fact because CNN said it? Even though they repeatedly used the word, "alleged"?
Pathetic...
Ping.
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I used to live in New Jersey and had mob connections. (Hey - I wasn’t about to bury my garbage in my own backyard!)
As a developer I imagine that Trump was never more than three levels away from the mob. And anyone writing a book would be able to figure it out. Something like the contractor he used hired bricklayers that got their supplies from a mob front.
When I moved to NJ it was pretty amazing how involved the mob was with so much stuff (early 1980’s when I moved there). For a kid from the Midwest I thought the mob was only in the movies.
Funny, no one had a problem with the Kennedys
First of all you’re going to have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up. Then there’s the kickbacks to the carpenters, and if you plan on using any cement in this building I’m sure the teamsters would like to have a little chat with ya, and that’ll cost ya. Oh and don’t forget a little something for the building inspectors. Then there’s long term costs such as waste disposal. I don’t know if you’re familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it’s not the boyscouts.
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