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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon May 1, 2017, 09:32 AM May 2017

"If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live"

Trump’s casino business went bankrupt, and then a lawyer representing investors told police he got a menacing call from a man who said “we’re going to your house for your wife and kids” if he didn’t stop “fucking with Mr. Trump.” The FBI determined the call came from a phone booth across the street from the theater where Trump was appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman.


Posted on May 1, 2017, at 5:44 a.m.

Jason Leopold
BuzzFeed News Reporter

When Donald Trump’s casino business went bankrupt in 2009, a lawyer whose clients stood to lose more than a billion dollars told police and the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family.

“My name is Carmine. I don’t know why you’re fucking with Mr. Trump but if you keep fucking with Mr. Trump, we know where you live and we’re going to your house for your wife and kids,” the caller said, according to the account that the attorney, Kristopher Hansen, gave to the Holmdel police department in New Jersey. Hansen speculated that the caller was Trump’s bodyguard.

According to FBI case notes, the phone call to Hansen was made at 2:05 p.m. on February 18, 2009, from a New York City telephone booth located across the street from the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Trump was a guest that day on The Late Show with David Letterman. Two former employees told BuzzFeed News that guests were typically asked to arrive between 2:30 and 3:00 to get ready for the show, which began taping at 4:30.

The incident, which has never before been made public, came at a time when Trump's signature mix of celebrity glamor and ruthless business tactics was on stark display. The implosion of his flagship casino company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, left many investors and contractors empty-handed. But Trump walked away from the wreckage, gilding his public image and largely denying responsibility. “I wasn’t involved at all in management,” Trump told Letterman. Trump had been chairman of the board until five days earlier, and his daughter Ivanka had also been on the board.

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"If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live" (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
Carmine? Cracklin Charlie May 2017 #1
surprised he didn't call himself Tony Soporano Raster May 2017 #18
That was my first thought mainstreetonce May 2017 #2
Ditto. But then I though Trump has very real ties to gangsters. Enoki33 May 2017 #14
So... we elected Tony Soprano...? Rollo May 2017 #3
PHONY Soprano superpatriotman May 2017 #4
WE didn't elect him. volstork May 2017 #22
republican 'family values' role model doing his ReThug Thingee Achilleaze May 2017 #5
How do I shut off this flashing idiocy? L. Coyote May 2017 #15
Carmine. phylny May 2017 #6
As another I-A, I agree. Can he be any more obviously stereotypical in his thinking? Stinky The Clown May 2017 #8
Right. Because people making threats always give their names. More_Cowbell May 2017 #17
Yup! pandr32 May 2017 #23
Ha! Good observation! phylny May 2017 #25
I'm surprised he didn't use "Frank Rizzo" smirkymonkey May 2017 #21
His life is like some sort of poorly written crime novel. n/t demmiblue May 2017 #7
" . . . and his daughter Ivanka had also been on the board" Stinky The Clown May 2017 #9
Iknowrite? roscoeroscoe May 2017 #11
I never trusted Carmine Orrex May 2017 #10
Says who, "Carmine Cohen" . Historic NY May 2017 #12
Don Trump ck4829 May 2017 #13
The Big Ragoo Liberalagogo May 2017 #16
Just more evidence not fooled May 2017 #19
The Mafia is way to smart to deal with a con artist like Trump. vinny9698 May 2017 #20
LOl he's such a con artist TNLib May 2017 #24

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. republican 'family values' role model doing his ReThug Thingee
Mon May 1, 2017, 10:09 AM
May 2017

Last edited Mon May 1, 2017, 11:43 AM - Edit history (1)

OK, less blingy flashy...

phylny

(8,353 posts)
6. Carmine.
Mon May 1, 2017, 10:09 AM
May 2017

Was his middle name Guido or Frankie?



I say this as an Italian-American. "Carmine": really inventive.

Stinky The Clown

(67,677 posts)
8. As another I-A, I agree. Can he be any more obviously stereotypical in his thinking?
Mon May 1, 2017, 10:26 AM
May 2017

I know. We all look like a Tony.

Fucking bigoted asshole.

phylny

(8,353 posts)
25. Ha! Good observation!
Mon May 1, 2017, 02:19 PM
May 2017

"This is Carmine Rico. Of the Bay Ridge Ricos. I live on Shore Road, right off the bridge...."

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. I'm surprised he didn't use "Frank Rizzo"
Mon May 1, 2017, 11:55 AM
May 2017

Not sure if people here are familiar w/ the Jerky Boys or have ever seen the movie, but it's pretty funny.

Here's a prank call clip:

?t=3

Stinky The Clown

(67,677 posts)
9. " . . . and his daughter Ivanka had also been on the board"
Mon May 1, 2017, 10:28 AM
May 2017

Oh, that must not be the non-complicit Ivanka. Surely not the new Saint Ivanka that they're trying to create.

LOCK THEM UP

not fooled

(5,791 posts)
19. Just more evidence
Mon May 1, 2017, 11:47 AM
May 2017

that the White House has been taken over by thugs and gangsters.

Oh, and before the election multiple credible sources--including David Cay Johnston and several longtime NY journalists--were out there stating that dump was mobbed up. The corporate media--who was of course making $$$ off dump--gave them short or no shrift.

So, here we are--we have a thug con man president.

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
20. The Mafia is way to smart to deal with a con artist like Trump.
Mon May 1, 2017, 11:47 AM
May 2017

Besides they would have had him roughed up for ripping them off.

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