A Look Back at the Discrimination Suit Dogging Trump

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By MEGHAN KENEALLY
Aug 26, 2016, 4:09 PM ET

... Back in 1973, five years after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Trump was deeply involved in the family’s New York City real estate business. And that’s when the Justice Department filed a housing discrimination suit against Donald Trump, father Fred and their real estate management corporation ...

The Department of Justice filed the civil suit against the Trump management corporation for “discriminating against black persons in the operation of their buildings,” according to the DOJ's news release on the date of the filing, Oct. 15, 1973.

At the time, the buildings in questioned included 14,000 units throughout greater New York City ...

In spite of Trump’s effort in 1974 to have the suit dismissed, his legal team reached an agreement with the government in June 1975. The suit was described in the agreement as a situation where the Trumps “have failed and neglected to exercise their affirmative and nondelegable duty under the Fair Housing Act… with the result that equal housing opportunity has been denied to substantial numbers of persons” ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286

[marybourg]

1. Yep. It was big news

in N.Y. at the time.