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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeet the notorious characters who call Trump Tower home
Curbed NY:Guido Lombardi, Floors 62 through 63
Real estate investor Guido Lombardi is a self-proclaimed Italian count, Trump supporter, and sympathizer with Italys anti-immigrant Northern League party.
Helly Nahmad, Floor 51
Art dealer Hillel Nahmad, of the Nahmad collecting dynasty, has been snatching up apartments on the 51st floor of Trump Tower since at least 1999, when he paid $2.5 million for Unit 51J. Years, and millions, later, Nahmad amassed the entire floor for a total $18.4 million. Nahmad was sent to prison for five months in 2014 for running a high-stakes gambling ring.
Ernie Garcia, Floors 48 through 49
The chairman of used car dealer DriveTime plead guilty to bank fraud in 1990 in connection to the collapse of Charles Keatings Savings and Loan. Garcia was sentenced to probation, and currently takes up residence in the tower.
Jose Maria Marin, Floor 41
If one must serve house arrest, Trump Tower is not too shabby of a place to do it. Thats the case with Jose Maria Marin, a former administrator of the Brazilian Football Confederation whos serving a sentence in connection with bribery charges stemming from the FIFA crisis, to which he plead guilty.
tanyev
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BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Good to know.
Not surprising, either.
sarcasmo
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(9,115 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:03 PM - Edit history (1)
usta live there:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/01/donald_trump_mob_ties_and_business_with_drug_trafficker_joseph_weichselbaum.html
John Cody:
" John Cody gets an apartment at Trump Tower. John Cody is a Gambino crime family associate who I had lunch with while I was doing the book. I had lunch with him at Windows on the World. And
AMY GOODMAN: On top of the World Trade Center.
WAYNE BARRETT: Yes. And it must have been under federal surveillance, because, two weeks after the lunch, they busted him for trying to kill the guy whoBobby Sasso, who had taken over Local 282, which was his union. That was the concrete delivery men. They delivered all the concrete to all the sites in New York, totally mob-controlled. And so they busted him for trying to kill a guy. He had already been in jail. He goes back to jail. "
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/5/trumps_greatest_mentor_was_red_baiting
What makes Teamster union mobster Cody so interesting is that he was an associate of the John Birch society connected Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche's outfit took a high profile at the time the JBS started fading from high profile public activities. When LaRouche's group started to fade, it was replaced by Bircher Alex Jones' infowars group.
LaRouche cultivated a wide variety of organized crime and corrupt labor union connections, like Rolland McMaster from Jimmy Hoffa's local, Harry Gross and John Cody from Long Island Teamsters local 282, Trafficante from FL, and mob lawyer Mayer Morganroth. He was involved with the same Genovese crime family whose members who were connected to indicted (repug prez) Raygun Labor Sec. Ray Donovan. (Donovan was involved with Bill Masselli, Al Magrini, Sal Briguglio, Paul Cianti, and Fred Furino. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/06/21/fbi-memo-says-slain-mafia-bagman-socialized-regularly-with-donovan/9a7b7232-a827-48b9-a1da-bfdf7df23f2f/ ) Donald dRumpf got into hot water for being involved with the exact same Genovese crime family, when Trump Tower construction improprieties were being investigated.
(In fact, Donovan's Schiavone Construction Company from Secaucus, NJ, was the same company that Donald dRumpf got into hot water for being involved with, when Trump Tower construction improprieties were being investigated.)
Larouche was associated with Klan leaders like Roy Frankhouser, and Bob Miles, a MI Aryan Nations 'pastor'.
LaRouche was associated with paramilitary school proprietor, white russian emigree, and CIA contract agent Mitch WerBell, who invented the Mac 10 Ingram machine gun silencer. "In 1988, Sheriff Sherman Block of Los Angeles announced that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt wrote WerBell a $1 million check in 1983 to kill Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione, Walter Annenberg, and Frank Sinatra.[16] Los Angeles television station KNBC displayed a photocopy of the check." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_WerBell
LaRouche was invited to meetings with Raygun NSA William P. Clark.
So, the point is, LaRouche was running around with mob ties, nazi ties, far right intel ties, crooked repug party ties. Reminiscent of dRumpf.
DRumpf is using the successor to LaRouche's org now, the 3rd generation bircher outfit, Alex Jone's infowars, as shock troops to augment Roger Stone's online nazi and street tough nazi initiatives.
And one of dRumpf's tenants is a mobbed up labor guy who was very much connected to and involved with LaRouche.
Basically, Trump Towers is like the Overlook Hotel from The Shining, except in Manhattan instead of CO.
(On edit, fixed 7th para, it had bad info that was showing up on internet searches.)
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