Click on the 2016 Yahoo News icon to watch one of the many times Mr. Trump lost his memory when being questioned about his mob connections. This time he was being asked about Robert LiButti, a New Jersey mobster and direct underling of the head of the Gambino Crime family who was also the single biggest spender at the Trump Plaza Casino. It's hard to imagine Mr. Trump forgetting Mr. Libutti who is reported to have threatened to castrate Mr. Trump if he didn't stop hitting on LiButti's married daughter.
Scoffing at New Jersey's anti-discrimination laws LiButti insisted that all women and all African-Americans be removed from any Trump Plaza table where he decided to gamble. Trump's pandering to LiButti's racist slurs and obscene comments about women ended up costing the casino hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines when disgusted and disgruntled women and African American staff filed a complaint. At the same time Trump was illegally giving LiButti huge gifts including $1.9 million worth of luxury automobiles for which the casino was fined another $450,000. In the video can be seen one of the many social ocassions LiButti partied with Trump; this one a night out at a wrestling match at Trump's invitation. At around the same time Trump denied even knowing LiButti. The Mafia Don book shows that Mr. Trump has never stood up to Organized Crime, even when he could have. Not even once.
Watch what Mr. Trump did when the BBC directly challenged him about his Mafia ties. Spoiler: He turned tail and ran. Really.
The mob connection was Felix Sater, a twice-convicted felon with ties to organized crime in the USA and in Russia who, after serving a prison sentence for stabbing a Wall Street stock broker in the neck and face, helped perpetrate a 40 million dollar stock scandal with his friends in organized crime. Trump was involved in a number of proposed deals with Slater, including the Trump Soho in New York City. A lawsuit was brought against Slater by an investor in their Arizona project, the Trump Camelback. The invester alleged that Sater had made a death threat after the investor found out about Sater's criminal past. The invester said in the lawsuit that Sater threatened to have a man electrically shock his testicles, cut off his legs, and leave him dead in the trunk of his car. Click the BBC box above to hear it all. And read the Mafia Don book to find out about Slater's endorsement of Trump during the campaign and his visit to Trump Tower in the summer of 2016.
ABC News investigation into whether Trump lied under oath about his connections to Mafia-connected Sater.
According to ABC News, Donald Trump could be in hot water for what he said under oath about his relationship with the convicted felon mentioned above, Felix Sater. Click on the box above to hear the report.
Ringing in the New Year with the Mob. At least two mob-connected felons were spotted at the Trump New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago.
Watch convicted felon and mob-connected Joey 'No-Socks' Cinque on stage with Mr. Trump celebrating on 31 Dec. 2016. A little earlier, Don King, the boxing promoter with Cleveland and New York mob ties plus his own felony record (for murder) faced reporters with Trump at the entrance to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate. (See Mafia Don book for much more on King.)
MSNBC reports on convicted felon Joey No-Socks Cinque and other mob-connected Trump associates. Why has Cinque given Trump so many awards over the last 10 years?
According to a New York District Attorney and other law enforcement sources, an ex-girl-friend, and several of his former friends, Joey 'No-Socks' Cinque, (as reported by New York Magazine in 1995) "is a small time mobster, a scam artist, and an art fence" who used to pal around with mob boss John Gotti. According to the article, entitled "The Preppy Don," Cinque was reticent about discussing his American Academy of Restaurant and Hospitality Services. This is the group that has awarded Trump properties so many plaques over the past decade. The article noted that the Academy's Guidebook listed award winners like La Cirque, Le Bernardin, and An American Place, but when those exclusive establishments were contacted by a reporter, none had ever heard of the Academy.
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano confessed to murdering 19 men while an underboss for a New York crime family. In this exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Gravano tells us how much Donald Trump is in debt to him.
Trump likes to say he never did more than "brush shoulders" with the mob. As spelled out in this report, in the 70s and 80s in New York you couldn't build a tree house, much less a Trump Tower, without direct involvement of the mob. This is covered in depth in the 'MAFIA' DON book. Gravano ran all New York construction projects for the Gambino crime family. In his words: "I literally marvel at the sight of Manhattan...because I controlled it... Donald Trump... couldn't have built a building if I didn't want him to build it." Click on the box above to hear the interview.. Gravano is currently back in prison. You can count on him to be figuring out the best way to manipulate Trump into getting him released.
Read 'MAFIA' DON: Donald Trump's 40 years of Mob ties for the dark details about Trump's connections to the mob.