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Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? (David Cay Johnston)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910Excerpt:
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trumps record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Hardings associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didnt just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.
From the public record and published accounts like that one, its possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trumps career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.
Now that hes running for president, I pulled together whats known piecing together the long history of federal filings, court records, biographical anecdotes, and research from my and Barretts files. What emerges is a pattern of business dealings with mob figuresnot only local figures, but even the son of a reputed Russian mob boss whom Trump had at his side at a gala Trump hotel opening, but has since claimed under oath he barely knows.
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Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? (David Cay Johnston) (Original Post)
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May 2016
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onecaliberal
(32,949 posts)1. Hillary Clinton is the only candidate under FBI Investigation
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onecaliberal
(32,949 posts)3. Is that all you got? I know facts make your tiny brain hurt.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)4. This is not surprising. Another good reason to vote for Bernie .
No mob connections.
He's the only one without them.