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PearliePoo2

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Mon May 23, 2016, 03:25 PM May 2016

Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties To The Mob?

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910

David Cay Johnston
"In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months. Most potential owners were scrutinized for more than a year. Trump argued that he was “clean as a whistle”—young enough that he hadn’t had time to get into any sort of trouble. He got the sped-up background check, and eventually got the casino license.
But Trump was not clean as a whistle...."





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Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties To The Mob? (Original Post) PearliePoo2 May 2016 OP
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