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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:37 PM Aug 2017

Report: Queasy Aussies Killed Trumps Casino Bid Over Mafia Connections

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Australian authorities simply couldn’t stomach Donald Trump’s alleged mob ties, according to government documents published by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper, The Australian, on Tuesday. The paper’s investigation reveals that Trump’s dream of building a casino in Sydney in the late 1980s was killed off by queasy officials who considered his operations in New Jersey “dangerous.”

In 1987, Trump had already opened two casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey—Trump’s Castle and Trump Plaza—with Trump Taj Mahal on its way. He was looking to expand the empire Down Under by bidding for a spot on Sydney’s picturesque harbor in partnership with a local developer, the Kern Corporation.

When the state government officials met that May to consider proposals for the site, they were presented with a police report that was unambivalent in opposing the plan for a one clear reason. “Atlantic City would be a dubious model for Sydney and in our judgment,” police noted, according to a summary contained in government minutes. “The Trump Mafia connections should exclude the Kern/Trump consortium.”

Also included in the documents published by The Australian is a fin­ancial report concluding Trump’s partnership had overstated estimated revenue from the ­casino....
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Report: Queasy Aussies Killed Trumps Casino Bid Over Mafia Connections (Original Post) Skidmore Aug 2017 OP
Here is what we keep forgetting. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,126 posts)
1. Here is what we keep forgetting.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:41 PM
Aug 2017

Deplorables dont care.

Teaparty dont care.

Russians dont care.

Nazi's dont care.

GOP dont care.

America is no more, for real, in actuality. When the minority party was allowed to prevent the president and the overwhelming majority of voters the SC seat they won, the democracy ended.

When Putin was allowed and encouraged to use KGB agents to interfere with the election, when the now president ASKED them to do it on LIVE tv, our country ended.

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