How Close Was Donald Trump To The Mob?

The Federalist ^ | 07/28/2015 | David Marcus

[SeekAndFind]

Donald Trump is running for president. Many believed or hoped that the Donald’s latest foray into national politics was nothing more than a public-relations move, not a serious attempt to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

But now that Trump holds the lead in national polls, as well as polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s time to take his campaign seriously. Media outlets like Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal, which are covering Trump’s run as an entertainment story, not a news story, are making a mistake. If Trump wants to be a serious candidate for president, and has the numbers to back it up, he must be vetted like a serious candidate for president. A good place to start is to take a hard look at Trump’s ties to Philadelphia and New York organized-crime families.

Donald Trump’s Connections to Organized Crime

Trump was building his eponymous empire of hotels, casinos, and high rises in the early 1980s in New York City and Atlantic City. In both places, the construction industry was firmly under the thumb of the mafia. And in both places there are literally concrete connections between La Cosa Nostra and Trump’s lavish projects. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades, has written a very useful list of questions for Trump. Many focus on his ties to the mob. In addition in his 1992 book, “Trump, The Deals and the Downfall,” author Wayne Barrett lays out a slew of suspicious dealings and associations.

[Jane Long]

What about the NY Cuomo’s? How close are they?

[VanDeKoik]

Tony Soprano for secretary of “wud yous lokin at?”.

[jonascord]

Chicago is the most profoundly Mob run and corrupt city in the United States. 4 0f the last 6 guvs have gone to prison. You don't get to an elective office without the approval of the Cook County Democrats Machine, and the last thing they want is an 'honest' state senator.

When you are inside, you are going to learn things, see things. Even if they don't concern you. Payoffs, no-show jobs, skimming city contracts, kickbacks, bulk narcotics, bribed judges, insurance scams, union extortion, shoddy and non-code construction. Despite the efforts of local and national media to bury this, the neighborhood gangs are operating with the permission of some Old Guys in Elmwood Park. (Like they care if the animals shoot each other. Where do they get the guns?) I think the term is, "It fell off a truck..."

If Trump tries to construct something, in NY, Jersey, Boston, he's got to deal with the Mob. He doesn't have to like it, and he knows that if he talks, Ivana gets a face full of acid...

That's the Chicago Way. I wonder who else is tied to the Mob? Hmmmm?

[hoosiermama]

Trumps.
She was appointed by Reagan. Promoted by Clinton. And spoke on behalf of Alito appointment to SC. Lifelong republican

[TexasCajun]

Get a load of David Marcus resume.

David Marcus is a senior contributor to the Federalist and the Artistic Director of Blue Box World, a Brooklyn based theater project. His plays have been seen on the stages of Galapagos Arts Space, D Lounge, and Theater Double Rep. A former member of the Bat Acting Company at the Flea Theater he has also performed at the Kennedy Center and Theater for the New City among many others. In addition to his writing for the Federalist his work has appeared in National Review Online, City Journal, PJ Media, Liberty Island and the New York Theater Review.

[showme_the_Glory]

Was he buddies with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres? Someone was.

[tumblindice]

Has Donald Trump stopped beating his wives?
Concerned MSM Whore

[vpintheak]

Rape, then the Mob. Think the media could find anything on Hillary or Obama!? Their investigation prowess is amazing!
/sarc

[BigEdLB]

They are sooooo desperate. Soon it will be space aliens.

You didn't hear? Trump just received an endorsement from a critical voting block in New Mexico. Trump vows to turn the state for the Republicans in the Presidential Election:

[taildragger]

Who cares!

If he fires all the Perfumed Prince PC types in the Pentagon that Obama has under his thumb and Trump hires the mob to go after ISIS, he would get a flippin' standing ovation from every blue collar Joe out their...

[grania]

It never ends does it?

Nope. But the Morlocks have overplayed their hand. At this point, anything Trump did or did not do, my response is "get over it". All they're doing is confirming our suspicions that everyone in DC is blackmailed or bought off.

The only rational path for the US is for a President Trump to clean out the DC sewer.

[RoosterRedux]

From the article:

Another issue that needs to be addressed in Trump’s New York operations is the use of undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building, which made way for the Trump Tower. Only a handful of union workers from Housewreckers Local 95 were employed on the site, the vast majority were illegal Polish alien workers, toiling under inhumane conditions, and wildly underpaid. Trump and his associates were found guilty in 1991 of conspiring to avoid paying pension and welfare fund contributions.

Google that last sentence and you'll this article as the ONLY source of that information on the internet.

[Erik Latranyi]

[RoosterRedux]

See post #73 above.

[Jane Long]

I just did a search on the Federalist site, under Bush.

Only one Bush article came up....and it’s favorable...why he’s attractive to voters!
http://thefederalist.com/?s=Bush

Two additional hit pieces on Trump, though.

http://thefederalist.com/?s=Bush

Under a search for Walker, we get this...

http://thefederalist.com/?s=Walker
Why Scott Walker’s Education Doesn’t Matter

The publisher is a former speech writer for Sen Cornyn, RINO-TX.

Hmmmmm.

[Old Yeller]

Closer than Harry Reid’s?

[Jane Long]

Ping to post #77.

[mulligan]

So what and who cares?