Trump Partied New Years Eve with Convicted Felon-With-Mob-Ties Joey No Socks Cinque

[CajunBlazer]

No socks, no problem for the president-elect. At a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday, Donald Trump shared the stage with a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks,” a video obtained by the Palm Beach Daily News reveals.

In the clip, Joseph “Joey No Socks” Cinque stands by Trump’s side loudly cheering on the president-elect as he lists off his campaign promises before hundreds of guests.

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Cinque was convicted in 1989 of criminal possession of stolen art, a felony, CNN reported. And according to a 1995 profile in New York magazine, Cinque was friends with the infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. The magazine also reported that Cinque was “shot three times and left for dead” in a 1980 incident that Cinque insisted was a “robbery,” but that “officials” said was “more likely a hit.”

Cinque now serves as president and CEO of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS), which presents “Star Diamond” awards to restaurants and hotels and has listed Trump as an “ambassador extraordinaire” as recently as 2015. Roughly half of the other approximately 30 honorary AAHS trustees are Trump family members, friends and business associates, The Week reports, citing the Associated Press.

(Imagine if Hillary Clinton did something like this.)

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-partied-eve-convicted-felon-194027958.html

[Comatose Sphagetti]

1. "Trump Partied New Years Eve with Convicted Felon..."

Guilt by association is bullshit.

[CajunBlazer]

2. It may BS

But for a politician hanging out with underworld figures is usually political suicide.

And it sounds like the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS) is an organization that Trump set up to give his hotels good ratings. As the article points out, have of the AAHS board is made up of Trump family members, friends and business associates.