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To: puborectalis who wrote (955252)8/8/2016 11:18:56 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576890
 
Supposedly, Trump built at least some of his buildings with steel-reinforced concrete instead of steel to keep the mob happy - they do concrete.

Excerpt:

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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To: puborectalis who wrote (955252)8/9/2016 8:29:57 AM
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Pella makes residential windows and small commercial ones , they wouldn't last a year in a high rise.

try not to sound so ignorant when you get partisan