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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: koan who wrote (990273)12/26/2016 5:10:24 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1570293
 
Can't build anything in NYC without some sort of dealing with the Mafia, especially as I understand it, any concrete construction....

politico.com

Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? I've spent years investigating, and here's what's known.

By David Cay Johnston

May 22, 2016

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But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan........."

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