WaPo: Trump is rife with mob connections

[triron]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-trumps-mob-connections-a-coincidence-fuhgeddaboudit/2018/08/10/24b62e2c-9cad-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?utm_term=.79ba6cdf86ec

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Would love to read. Just have to sign up...which i

Have been meaning to

[JonLP24]

2. He opens up on Mario Puzzo and Manafort

(snip)

New York construction, for starters. In 1988, Vincent “the Fish” Cafaro of the Genovese crime family testified before a U.S. Senate committee concerning the Mafia’s control of building projects in New York. Construction unions and concrete contractors were deeply dirty, Cafaro confirmed, and four of the city’s five crime families worked cooperatively to keep it that way.

This would not have been news to Trump, whose early political mentor and personal lawyer was Roy Cohn, consigliere to such dons as Fat Tony Salerno and Carmine Galante. After Cohn guided the brash young developer through the gutters of city politics to win permits for Trump Plaza and Trump Tower, it happened that Trump elected to build primarily with concrete rather than steel. He bought the mud at inflated prices from S&A Concrete, co-owned by Cohn’s client Salerno and Paul Castellano, boss of the Gambino family.

Coincidence? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Trump moved next into the New Jersey casino business, which was every bit as clean as it sounds. State officials merely shrugged when Trump bought a piece of land from associates of Philadelphia mob boss “Little Nicky” Scarfo for roughly $500,000 more than it was worth. However, this and other ties persuaded police in Australia to block Trump’s bid to build a casino in Sydney in 1987, citing Trump’s “Mafia connections.”

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For instance: In 2013, federal prosecutors indicted Russian mob boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov and 33 others on charges related to a gambling ring operating from two Trump Tower condos that allegedly laundered more than $100 million. A few months later, the same Mr. Tokhtakhounov, a fugitive from U.S. justice, was seen on the red carpet at Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-trumps-mob-connections-a-coincidence-fuhgeddaboudit/2018/08/10/24b62e2c-9cad-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?utm_term=.54541454a676

As much as I can post. Part I snipped details Atlantic City. A lot of this info is in prior stories about his mob connections.

[triron]

3. Hit the escape key several times quickly as soon as it starts to load.

Worked for me anyway.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Thanks

[Wednesdays]

15. My phone does not have an "escape" key.

[triron]

18. I was referring to my PC.

[SharonClark]

5. Interesting article, and also the linked articles that followed it...

Read more:
Dana Milbank: The Manafort trial, starring Donald Trump
Jennifer Rubin: Why Trump is so freaked out by the Manafort trial
Harry Litman: Time for Mueller to bring out the big guns
Max Boot: Don’t worry about the politics of impeachment. Just do the right thing.
Jennifer Rubin: What’s even worse than the swamp? The company that Trump kept.

[madaboutharry]

6. Trump runs the country like a mob boss.

He’s the head of the Trump crime family.

[TDale313]

7. Raise your hand if you're surprised. n/t

[Cha]

8. Ya think? russian and New Yawk.

[donkeypoofed]

9. MSM should've been SHOUTING this BEFORE the election

Cause most people don't know about what a scumwad Spanky has always been. They know about his failing reality show and that's pretty much it.

[Hekate]

10. Kick him back to the gutters

What a disgusting time in our history

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[Squinch]

12. I come from a NYC construction family. We wouldn't subcontract to his subcontractors because

he was so filthy.

Why in hell was this not reported BEFORE the election?? I kept waiting for it. It was an open secret for decades.

And I know people are going to say that he was a good story and made money for the media outlets, but this story would have been a GREAT story and would have sold lots and lots of ads and papers.

So how did this asshole get such a complete pass from scrutiny throughout his campaign??

[Vinca]

13. The David Cay Johnston books about Trump are worth the read if you want to know about

his mob ties and financial dirty dealings. Hmmm . . . wonder if Johnston is a consultant for Mueller.

[Botany]

14. ATTN post So now you tell us this stuff?

2015 & 2016 would have been a better time to write this article.

The same information was out there then.

[Mc Mike]

16. T Rump is law and order. Like his buddies, Christie and Giuliani.

They cleaned up the mob in NY and NJ. That's why there's no organized crime there, anymore.

[meow2u3]

17. Ya just found out?

The papers have been chronicling his mob ties for decades and no one outside New York knew about it?! I find that hard to believe.