Exposing Trump's Decades of Deep Ties to Organized Crime

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24. Trump, The Mob & Organized Crime

I can't vouch for the organization, but their research gives us a start -- names, events, places -- on the Connections.

Trump, The Mob & Organized Crime

http://www.helpfreetheearth.com

August 2015

While Donald Trump was building his eponymous empire of hotels, casinos, and high rises in the early 1980s in New York City and Atlantic City, the construction industry was firmly under the thumb of the mafia. In both places there are literally concrete connections between La Cosa Nostra and Trump’s lavish projects.

Now that he tops the polls for U.S. President, it's time to focus on his ties to the mob. In the book, “Trump, The Deals and the Downfall,” author Wayne Barrett lays out Trump's dealings and associations...like Salvatore Testa, a Philadelphia mafia boss and son of Philip “Chicken Man” Testa, Scarfo and Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, the boss of the Genovese crime family.

Trump bought a piece of land for $1 million from the son of Philadelphia’s former mafia Don, and used it to launch a gambling empire.

Another former business associate of Mr Trump, Felix Sater is an ex-convict who had gone to prison for stabbing a man in the face with the snapped-off stem of a cocktail glass. Out of prison, Mr Sater went on to take part in a $40m (£27m) stock market scam in the 1990s involving four mafia families. Mr Sater then moved into property development, which is how he came into contact with Mr Trump. Despite Sater’s previous mafia links becoming public, Mr Trump remained involved with him in a property deal in Florida for another year.

Could this myriad of associations, points of contact, and shared affiliations with known mobsters just be the price of doing business in that business at that time? Sure. And if Trump were just a private citizen, businessman, and reality TV star, he would be under no obligation to explain any of this. But he isn’t. He is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

It’s time to stop treating Trump as a sideshow. He is being treated with kid gloves because nobody thinks he can win. Everybody is simply waiting for him to implode under the pressure of his own enormous ego and unfiltered motor mouth. But rather than plunging his run into chaos, his racist ramblings about immigrants and undignified digs at John McCain’s military service have excited some supporters. They think he speaks truth to power. They think he is the only honest man in politics. And no degree of exasperation from level headed news people and party officials seems to tamp his populist surge.

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PS: Thank you for grokking, Jeffersons Ghost! It really says something about our age when gangsters who can afford to get away with lying America into endless wars for profit now have to make way for lower class of gangster who make money from gambling and construction. What is this world turning to?

Like Charlie from America toasted Harold Shand in "The Long Good Friday": "To the future!'