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How Close Was Donald Trump To The Mob?
The Federalist ^ | JULY 28, 2015 | David Marcus

Posted on 02/10/2016 3:12:00 PM PST by TBP

Trump was building his eponymous empire of hotels, casinos, and high rises in the early 1980s in New York City and Atlantic City. In both places, the construction industry was firmly under the thumb of the mafia. And in both places there are literally concrete connections between La Cosa Nostra and Trump’s lavish projects. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades, has written a very useful list of questions for Trump. Many focus on his ties to the mob. In addition in his 1992 book, “Trump, The Deals and the Downfall,” author Wayne Barrett lays out a slew of suspicious dealings and associations.

The Atlantic City story starts with Trump’s purchase of a bar, at twice its market value, from Salvatore Testa, a made man in the Philadelphia mafia and son of Philip “Chicken Man” Testa, who was briefly head of the Philly mob after Angelo Bruno’s 1980 killing. Harrah’s casino, half owned by Trump, would be built on that land, and Trump would quickly buy out his partner, Harrah’s Entertainment, and rename the casino Trump Plaza.

Trump Plaza’s connection to the mob didn’t end with the land purchase from Testa. Nicademo “Little Nicky” Scarfo (who became boss after the elder Testa was blown up) and his nephew Phillip “crazy Phil” Leonetti controlled two of the major construction and concrete companies in Atlantic City. Both companies, Scarf, Inc. and Nat Nat, did work on the construction of Harrah’s, according the State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation’s 1986 report on organized crime. In addition, Scarfo, whose reign as head of the Philly mob was one of the bloodiest in history, controlled the bartenders union, which represented Trump’s workers in Atlantic City, according to George Anastasia’s book, “Blood and Honor.”

One more link to organized crime lurks in Trump’s past Atlantic City dealings. He had a close association with Kenny Shapiro, an investment banker for Scarfo. According to secret recordings of then Scarfo attorney Robert F. Simone, Shapiro was intimately involved with bribing Atlantic City Mayor Michael J. Matthews, whose term would end in 1984 with a conviction on extortion charges. On the tapes, in 1983, Simone, talking about Leonetti, states: “He’s a nice-looking boy…Nicky’s nephew, he can sit with the…mayor. Ah, and Kenny’s (Shapiro) got the mayor through this kid Phillip.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; 2016; corruption; mafia; mob; propagandadujour; tedspacificpartners; trump; usualsuspect
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To: TBP

Well that’s it...Trump is out


21 posted on 02/10/2016 3:19:19 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: dead

Sorry for the giant photo! It was smaller in google.


22 posted on 02/10/2016 3:19:20 PM PST by dead (Please clap.)
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To: TBP

I dunno, what did your post 10 minutes before this one say?


23 posted on 02/10/2016 3:19:41 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: dead

Nice photo, did you take it?


24 posted on 02/10/2016 3:19:52 PM PST by heights
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To: Red Steel

H’s pretty close to that mob. It’s terrible. The sky is falling down.


25 posted on 02/10/2016 3:20:08 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: TBP
takeoff
26 posted on 02/10/2016 3:20:57 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: TBP

Any New York real estate developer working when Trump did the majority of his actual real estate development would have “mob connections,” because the entire NYC construction industry was run by the mafia at the time. Doesn’t mean there was any wrongdoing on Trump’s part, and certainly doesn’t mean that Trump himself was involved in mafia activities.


27 posted on 02/10/2016 3:21:34 PM PST by ojeffers
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To: The Iceman Cometh

LMAO!!


28 posted on 02/10/2016 3:22:39 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: TBP

Trump had no business deals with the Obama mob, the Clinton mob or organized crime in Washington, DC (aka the federal government).


29 posted on 02/10/2016 3:22:41 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: dynoman

Isn’t that something. 200


30 posted on 02/10/2016 3:23:11 PM PST by zek157
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To: TBP

Hope you enjoy SC.


31 posted on 02/10/2016 3:23:59 PM PST by zek157
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To: rrrod

I once had lunch with a friend in a Mob restaurant in San Jose, ca. My friend and I were the only patrons, other than five guys that looked like something out of ‘GoodFellas’. Pretty good Italian food.


32 posted on 02/10/2016 3:24:20 PM PST by heights
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To: Las Vegas Ron
The Cruz bots know they are going down...they can't stand it and so anything and everything will be thrown at Trump and if it wasn't Trump that was leading in all the polls, it would be someone else to get trashed...that's what they are, are ‘trashers’ they can't comprehend, nor talk, all they can do is discredit people on here that support someone else...

If they only knew how many people who might have voted for Cruz changed their minds because of the trashing they do of other people's candidates, they might think about it, but no they just trash, the whole day and night...

Nothing about them surprises me anymore...it just go to the nature of the beast, in this case, ‘cruz bots’....

33 posted on 02/10/2016 3:24:43 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: ojeffers

"....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 Boy Scouts."

34 posted on 02/10/2016 3:25:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TBP

Yes
NYC
libtard city
Remember Guliani Teflon Don...
Rudolph was a REPUBLICAN and shut down the mob
Libtards go along..... $$$$
Scumbags


35 posted on 02/10/2016 3:26:17 PM PST by zzwhale (YEP)
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To: TBP
Trump's Capos Trump Mafia photo: mafia mafia.jpg
36 posted on 02/10/2016 3:26:17 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: heights

Bwwwwaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Come on, anyone who knows anything about NYC knows nothing happens unless famila is involved.
I’m not a trump supporter, however this is just stupid.


37 posted on 02/10/2016 3:27:34 PM PST by svcw (An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a subject)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

From the article:

“Another issue that needs to be addressed in Trump’s New York operations is the use of undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building, which made way for the Trump Tower. Only a handful of union workers from Housewreckers Local 95 were employed on the site, the vast majority were illegal Polish alien workers, toiling under inhumane conditions, and wildly underpaid. Trump and his associates were found guilty in 1991 of conspiring to avoid paying pension and welfare fund contributions.”

Hmmmm. Trump found guilty in 1991. If not true, then maybe libel?

Gwjack


38 posted on 02/10/2016 3:27:34 PM PST by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: TBP
So David Marcus of The Nation is singing the same song as Thom Hartmann Thom Hartmann (of Russia Today) on the other thread?

The leftists insist they are eager to take on the "unelectable" Mr. Trump, but then, leftists lie a lot.

39 posted on 02/10/2016 3:28:26 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: tumblindice

Funny stuff.


40 posted on 02/10/2016 3:28:44 PM PST by heights
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