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Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties
Adam KlasfeldNov 30th, 2020, 1:23 pm
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Felix Sater, former business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for testimony before the House Select Intelligence Committee July 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Sater was the chief negotiator in the unsuccessful effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.
“In this case, Kazakhstan’s largest city and a Kazakhstani bank seek to recover millions of dollars in stolen funds from those who allegedly helped the culprits launder them,” U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan summarized in a 25-page opinion dismissing only two counts of a six-count complaint. “Felix Sater—the alleged ringleader of the money-laundering operation—along with his associate Daniel Ridloff and several business entities they control, move to dismiss.”
Like Sater, Ridloff was also formerly associated with the Trump Organization. The lawsuit stems from allegations of the systematic looting of Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty and its bank in 2009.
“The Court emphasizes that the Kazakh entities will need to adduce evidence showing the Sater defendants’ deceptive conduct and their justifiable reliance on that conduct in significantly greater detail to meet their burdens of production and of proof as the case progresses,” Nathan wrote. “However, at this stage, the Court concludes that it is not clear on the face of the complaint that their claims are untimely, and so declines to dismiss any claims on that basis.”
Almaty’s attorney Craig A. Wenner, from the firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment. Neither did Sater’s counsel Jill Levi, from the firm Todd & Levi, LLP.
Yep...that writing been on the wall too.....can’t tell me this guy is still boomin like he claims he is because people just luv them some golf and the Trump name.....plus wit who he remains loyal too, it only makes sense. They long been dry snitchin on themselves.
Bloody Mob Sh*t: An Interview with Lincoln's Bible
Bloody Mob Sh*t: An Interview with Lincoln's Bible
We talk Trump, Mogilevich, Epstein, Giuliani, Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and more.
Greg OlearFeb 21
I DID NOT COME EASILY to the conclusion that Donald John Trump was a money launderer for the Russian mob. When I wrote Dirty Rubles in the spring of 2018, I was reluctant to make definitive accusations regarding the president’s relationship to organized crime. I had to be positive, before I said it with confidence.
Lincoln’s Bible (@lincolnsbible) always knew. She knew from the gate. And she was not shy about sharing her vast knowledge. She understands the workings of the mafiya better than anyone not paid to understand it. With her colleagues Louise Neufeld and Jay McKenzie, she established Citjourno.org, a consortium of “self-funded citizen researchers” that serves as a bulwark against the underworld enemy “attacking and overwhelming the Fourth Estate.” That site is required reading, particularly “Poke the Bear,” published 3 November 2017, which connects a series of dots to reveal, basically, a bunch of mobbed-up Russian nesting dolls with Trump on the inside.
Hers is one of a select handful of Twitter accounts that are absolute must-follows. I’m quite sure that in the last three years, I’ve RT’d her more than anyone else. (She’s also a terrific editor who helped me hone one of the pieces I wrote about Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing). Eric Garland, of Game Theory fame, once told me, “There’s no one on Twitter I trust more than Lincoln’s Bible.” (Later, he added Lisa Page and Sally Yates to his short list). I quite agree.
Here is our interview, conducted this past week:
Greg Olear: Why did you choose the name Lincoln’s Bible?
Lincoln’s Bible: Symbolism is one of the most powerful tools of the Presidency. In 2008, the Library of Congress offered Abraham Lincoln’s personal bible to President Obama for his swearing-in ceremony. It was a potent symbol of our progress as a republic—as a people, striving for unity. So, when I saw donald put his filthy, blood-drenched, mob-money-laundering paw on it to swear his oath of office, I was rightfully offended. The Library of Congress didn’t offer Lincoln’s bible to donald. He demanded it from them, so that he could taint that symbolic moment in our history. He was using his oath of office—his oath—simply to troll Obama. When I saw that, I decided to avenge that noble book, take to donald’s favorite platform (Twitter), and expose him for the wretched criminal he is.
GO: I see you are not capitalizing the “D” in “Donald.”
LB: I don’t capitalize “donald.” It’s very intentional.
GO: Short fingers, lowercase “d.” Got it. Along with your fellow “citizen journalist” K. Louise Neufeld, you have long been an expert on the Russian mob. On all things mob, actually. How did you acquire this knowledge? Why is the subject of such interest to you?
LB: Lou is a phenomenal, collaborative force. Her ability to balance small details and big picture easily out-paces me.
GO: Agreed. She’s amazing.
LB: I’ve studied organized crime, very loosely, for years (mostly, through reading and open source research). I’ve had a couple writing projects that involved mobsters, so I had some deeper knowledge around those individual stories. I knew about the intersection between Roy Cohn, the Outfit, and Cosa Nostra. I knew how NYC construction fit into that intersection. I knew about Cody and the concrete cartel, etc. But I had no deep knowledge on how mob-owned the Trump family was before donald came down that stupid escalator.
GO: For all of us, a descent into hell.
LB: Ha! Yes. (sigh)
Anyhoos, as for Russian organized crime, I learned something personal about donald back in the mid-00s that put Russian money on my radar. But it was when Craig Unger dropped Mogilevich’s name in his 2017 New Republic article that the Russian mafia clicked into view. It’s been a daily, deep dive ever since.
Organized crime—the real workings of it (not the movie versions)—is a very complex world, driven by a very simple motivator: money. I can’t explain why I’m so focused on it. Or why I have an aptitude for it. But I do learn something new every day. I think it’s going to be like this for awhile.
GO: Well, I mean, the scope is breathtaking. Audacious. It never fails to blow my mind, the evil shyt these fukkers come up with.
Starting with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in 1974, and intensifying after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian mafiya basically pushed out La Cosa Nostra and the Camorra in New York especially, but also in Miami, Denver, and elsewhere. It was akin to gentrification, with the Vor being hipsters opening up a new neighborhood—only for criminal purposes.
LB: You’ve got some geographical and absorption issues in the lead up to that question, but I dig the metaphor.
GO: Thanks. It was in the 1990s when Donald John Trump began laundering money for the Russian mafiya. But his family’s mob ties go back long before that, correct?
LB: Yes. Since Grandpa Drumpf.
GO: Right, the pimp. Classy guy. And Donald’s daddy was also involved with organized crime. Briefly, what was Fred Trump’s deal, mob-wise?
LB: Well, I could be super brief, and just say he was the businessman front for the Genovese crime family. But since that hasn’t been properly covered in the press (only Wayne Barrett had the balls to cover Fred), I should give a little more meat, so that folks can really grasp it.
To best understand Fred, just track his rise from single-family home construction to big residential developments. From Shore Haven (1947) to Beach Haven to Trump Village, all were done with known mafia partners, in Genovese-controlled territory, and eventually with a fully Genovese-owned construction company (HRH Construction).
When the Russian mafiya began rolling in, they landed in Fred’s properties and partnered with the Genovese on some big ticket scams. This was also during the time that Fred and his attorney Roy Cohn set up S&A concrete (via Nick Auletta)—a joint venture between Tony Salerno (Genovese boss) and Paul Castellano (Gambino boss), so that donald could build in Manhattan. Remember donald’s quote, “Even my father, he said, you don’t want to go to Manhattan. That’s not our territory?” That’s because Manhattan, for construction, was Gambino territory. They controlled the concrete and unions. And Fred was a very loyal, shrewd front for the Genovese. To get his idiot, greedy kid into Manhattan, Fred and Roy Cohn had to get those two mob bosses to agree on a joint venture.
A bunch of really terrible Russian mafia capos, tied to the Kremlin and Mogilevich, started landing in donald’s Manhattan properties after that.
GO: Ivankov! Weird, isn’t it, how similar his last name is to Ivanka’s first name.
LB: There’s a lot more on Fred. But you get the gist. The Trumps are a crime family, through and through.
GO: Rudy Giuliani, whose father was a lesser mobster, built his reputation prosecuting Italian mobsters. In the process, he made it easier for the Russians to move in. Do you think this was intentional?
LB: Yes. I do.
While a young prosecutor, Rudy knew the Brighton Beach mafiya boss, Evsei Agron, and dropped a criminal case against Agron’s best friend and “rabbi,” Ronald Greenwald (of Nixon CREEP fame).
GO: Both Agron and Greenwald are discussed at length in Friedman’s Red Mafiya, as you know. And no, this Greenwald is no relation to the Snowden apologist Brazilian ex-pat deza boy. Sorry, back to Rudy...
LB: Somewhere between the Greenwald case and his prosecutions of Ivan Boesky & Michael Milken would be my guess as to the “when” Giuliani switched families.
GO: Wow, I haven’t heard those names in a while.
[Note: We did this interview on 18 February. Within six hours of LB writing about Milken, and me making that joke, TRUMP PARDONED HIM!!!]
When asked if he was worried that Trump would throw him under the bus, Giuliani replied that he had “insurance,” and that even if he sustained metaphorical injury, his medical bills would be paid. What does this mean, do you think?
LB: Here’s the thing…and it’s NYC mob gossip, but I trust the source. Rudy and donald hate each other. Capital “H” hate. They both have dirt on one another. And, for both, it’s as bad as it gets. Cocaine, corruption, and bloody mob shyt. So they’re stuck together. Don’t look for one to turn on the other. Unless drugs/alcohol/dementia takes over, and they burn each other down as they internally crumble.
GO: I hate both of them intensely, so I have no problem believing they hate each other. Maybe one day they can share a prison cell, and star in an ADX Florence production of Sartre’s No Exit.
LB: I have no comeback for that.
GO: Or Sater’s No Exit? Okay, I’ll stop.
Everything about Jeffrey Epstein was weird, but “Epstein was murdered” is now a conspiracy theory cottage industry. We know he was associated with the Russian mafiya, through his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert, was business partners with Semion Mogilevich, head of the Vor. I’m more interested in Epstein’s finances than his death. What’s your take on this?
LB: Epstein laundered money for global arms dealers. I feel more than confident in making that statement, and it would be a great service to the public if journalists focused on his money rather than death conspiracies. Stop getting distracted and just follow the fukking money.
GO: That sounds so simple, and yet the media, with a few exceptions, cannot seem to do it. Here’s another example. We never did find out #WhoOwnsKavanaugh. That’s another situation, as with Epstein, where the media was distracted from following the money by a more lurid angle on the story. Not to disparage Christine Blasey Ford, who I think is heroic for coming forward. It just seems like the media is like an old circuit breaker—it can only handle so much at once.
LB: Agreed. And I don’t think it’s too late to get answers on Kavanaugh’s money. We were on the path to learning something in his first hearing, when Senator Booker released that trove of documents, and Senator Leahy was spilling about past issues with Kavanaugh. This was right before the letter Dr. Ford wrote to Senator Feinstein was leaked—causing the great distraction. And the Guardianreported that sometime before the letter was leaked, Dr. Ford’s email was hacked (which would explain the leak, since Senator Feinstein is clear it didn’t come from her office). Someone should follow up on all of that. My guess is they’re all of a piece.
GO: One of the problems with the coverage of Trump/Russia is that the media, as currently constituted, is very good at generating content for a 24-hour news cycle, but terrible at circling back and providing a Big Picture, an overview. This is something I’ve tried to do for the last three years, as you have, as others have.
You work in Hollywood, as a screenwriter. I’m a novelist and ghostwriter. Louise Mensch wrote a bunch of romance novels before she was in Parliament. Eric Garland is a futurist, also trained to look at the Big Picture. Do you think there is some correlation, or is that just a coincidence?
LB: Storytellers understand two things: character and world. We look at how a character progresses over time, and what motivates him/her. We understand them through the world they live in—the things they have to do to survive and thrive based on the rules of that world. So, no. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that people who understand character and world have a firm grasp on the context of Trump/Russia. I think it’s a goddamn travesty that people who don’t are controlling the narrative.
Photo credit: President Donald Trump being sworn in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump wears a sky-blue cashmere Ralph Lauren ensemble. He holds his left hand on two versions of the Bible, one childhood Bible given to him by his mother, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. Jonathan Adams (2017-01-20) via White House Facebook page.
Bloody Mob Sh*t: An Interview with Lincoln's Bible
We talk Trump, Mogilevich, Epstein, Giuliani, Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and more.
Greg OlearFeb 21
I DID NOT COME EASILY to the conclusion that Donald John Trump was a money launderer for the Russian mob. When I wrote Dirty Rubles in the spring of 2018, I was reluctant to make definitive accusations regarding the president’s relationship to organized crime. I had to be positive, before I said it with confidence.
Lincoln’s Bible (@lincolnsbible) always knew. She knew from the gate. And she was not shy about sharing her vast knowledge. She understands the workings of the mafiya better than anyone not paid to understand it. With her colleagues Louise Neufeld and Jay McKenzie, she established Citjourno.org, a consortium of “self-funded citizen researchers” that serves as a bulwark against the underworld enemy “attacking and overwhelming the Fourth Estate.” That site is required reading, particularly “Poke the Bear,” published 3 November 2017, which connects a series of dots to reveal, basically, a bunch of mobbed-up Russian nesting dolls with Trump on the inside.
Hers is one of a select handful of Twitter accounts that are absolute must-follows. I’m quite sure that in the last three years, I’ve RT’d her more than anyone else. (She’s also a terrific editor who helped me hone one of the pieces I wrote about Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing). Eric Garland, of Game Theory fame, once told me, “There’s no one on Twitter I trust more than Lincoln’s Bible.” (Later, he added Lisa Page and Sally Yates to his short list). I quite agree.
Here is our interview, conducted this past week:
Greg Olear: Why did you choose the name Lincoln’s Bible?
Lincoln’s Bible: Symbolism is one of the most powerful tools of the Presidency. In 2008, the Library of Congress offered Abraham Lincoln’s personal bible to President Obama for his swearing-in ceremony. It was a potent symbol of our progress as a republic—as a people, striving for unity. So, when I saw donald put his filthy, blood-drenched, mob-money-laundering paw on it to swear his oath of office, I was rightfully offended. The Library of Congress didn’t offer Lincoln’s bible to donald. He demanded it from them, so that he could taint that symbolic moment in our history. He was using his oath of office—his oath—simply to troll Obama. When I saw that, I decided to avenge that noble book, take to donald’s favorite platform (Twitter), and expose him for the wretched criminal he is.
GO: I see you are not capitalizing the “D” in “Donald.”
LB: I don’t capitalize “donald.” It’s very intentional.
GO: Short fingers, lowercase “d.” Got it. Along with your fellow “citizen journalist” K. Louise Neufeld, you have long been an expert on the Russian mob. On all things mob, actually. How did you acquire this knowledge? Why is the subject of such interest to you?
LB: Lou is a phenomenal, collaborative force. Her ability to balance small details and big picture easily out-paces me.
GO: Agreed. She’s amazing.
LB: I’ve studied organized crime, very loosely, for years (mostly, through reading and open source research). I’ve had a couple writing projects that involved mobsters, so I had some deeper knowledge around those individual stories. I knew about the intersection between Roy Cohn, the Outfit, and Cosa Nostra. I knew how NYC construction fit into that intersection. I knew about Cody and the concrete cartel, etc. But I had no deep knowledge on how mob-owned the Trump family was before donald came down that stupid escalator.
GO: For all of us, a descent into hell.
LB: Ha! Yes. (sigh)
Anyhoos, as for Russian organized crime, I learned something personal about donald back in the mid-00s that put Russian money on my radar. But it was when Craig Unger dropped Mogilevich’s name in his 2017 New Republic article that the Russian mafia clicked into view. It’s been a daily, deep dive ever since.
Organized crime—the real workings of it (not the movie versions)—is a very complex world, driven by a very simple motivator: money. I can’t explain why I’m so focused on it. Or why I have an aptitude for it. But I do learn something new every day. I think it’s going to be like this for awhile.
GO: Well, I mean, the scope is breathtaking. Audacious. It never fails to blow my mind, the evil shyt these fukkers come up with.
Starting with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in 1974, and intensifying after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian mafiya basically pushed out La Cosa Nostra and the Camorra in New York especially, but also in Miami, Denver, and elsewhere. It was akin to gentrification, with the Vor being hipsters opening up a new neighborhood—only for criminal purposes.
LB: You’ve got some geographical and absorption issues in the lead up to that question, but I dig the metaphor.
GO: Thanks. It was in the 1990s when Donald John Trump began laundering money for the Russian mafiya. But his family’s mob ties go back long before that, correct?
LB: Yes. Since Grandpa Drumpf.
GO: Right, the pimp. Classy guy. And Donald’s daddy was also involved with organized crime. Briefly, what was Fred Trump’s deal, mob-wise?
LB: Well, I could be super brief, and just say he was the businessman front for the Genovese crime family. But since that hasn’t been properly covered in the press (only Wayne Barrett had the balls to cover Fred), I should give a little more meat, so that folks can really grasp it.
To best understand Fred, just track his rise from single-family home construction to big residential developments. From Shore Haven (1947) to Beach Haven to Trump Village, all were done with known mafia partners, in Genovese-controlled territory, and eventually with a fully Genovese-owned construction company (HRH Construction).
When the Russian mafiya began rolling in, they landed in Fred’s properties and partnered with the Genovese on some big ticket scams. This was also during the time that Fred and his attorney Roy Cohn set up S&A concrete (via Nick Auletta)—a joint venture between Tony Salerno (Genovese boss) and Paul Castellano (Gambino boss), so that donald could build in Manhattan. Remember donald’s quote, “Even my father, he said, you don’t want to go to Manhattan. That’s not our territory?” That’s because Manhattan, for construction, was Gambino territory. They controlled the concrete and unions. And Fred was a very loyal, shrewd front for the Genovese. To get his idiot, greedy kid into Manhattan, Fred and Roy Cohn had to get those two mob bosses to agree on a joint venture.
A bunch of really terrible Russian mafia capos, tied to the Kremlin and Mogilevich, started landing in donald’s Manhattan properties after that.
GO: Ivankov! Weird, isn’t it, how similar his last name is to Ivanka’s first name.
LB: There’s a lot more on Fred. But you get the gist. The Trumps are a crime family, through and through.
GO: Rudy Giuliani, whose father was a lesser mobster, built his reputation prosecuting Italian mobsters. In the process, he made it easier for the Russians to move in. Do you think this was intentional?
LB: Yes. I do.
While a young prosecutor, Rudy knew the Brighton Beach mafiya boss, Evsei Agron, and dropped a criminal case against Agron’s best friend and “rabbi,” Ronald Greenwald (of Nixon CREEP fame).
GO: Both Agron and Greenwald are discussed at length in Friedman’s Red Mafiya, as you know. And no, this Greenwald is no relation to the Snowden apologist Brazilian ex-pat deza boy. Sorry, back to Rudy...
LB: Somewhere between the Greenwald case and his prosecutions of Ivan Boesky & Michael Milken would be my guess as to the “when” Giuliani switched families.
GO: Wow, I haven’t heard those names in a while.
[Note: We did this interview on 18 February. Within six hours of LB writing about Milken, and me making that joke, TRUMP PARDONED HIM!!!]
When asked if he was worried that Trump would throw him under the bus, Giuliani replied that he had “insurance,” and that even if he sustained metaphorical injury, his medical bills would be paid. What does this mean, do you think?
LB: Here’s the thing…and it’s NYC mob gossip, but I trust the source. Rudy and donald hate each other. Capital “H” hate. They both have dirt on one another. And, for both, it’s as bad as it gets. Cocaine, corruption, and bloody mob shyt. So they’re stuck together. Don’t look for one to turn on the other. Unless drugs/alcohol/dementia takes over, and they burn each other down as they internally crumble.
GO: I hate both of them intensely, so I have no problem believing they hate each other. Maybe one day they can share a prison cell, and star in an ADX Florence production of Sartre’s No Exit.
LB: I have no comeback for that.
GO: Or Sater’s No Exit? Okay, I’ll stop.
Everything about Jeffrey Epstein was weird, but “Epstein was murdered” is now a conspiracy theory cottage industry. We know he was associated with the Russian mafiya, through his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert, was business partners with Semion Mogilevich, head of the Vor. I’m more interested in Epstein’s finances than his death. What’s your take on this?
LB: Epstein laundered money for global arms dealers. I feel more than confident in making that statement, and it would be a great service to the public if journalists focused on his money rather than death conspiracies. Stop getting distracted and just follow the fukking money.
GO: That sounds so simple, and yet the media, with a few exceptions, cannot seem to do it. Here’s another example. We never did find out #WhoOwnsKavanaugh. That’s another situation, as with Epstein, where the media was distracted from following the money by a more lurid angle on the story. Not to disparage Christine Blasey Ford, who I think is heroic for coming forward. It just seems like the media is like an old circuit breaker—it can only handle so much at once.
LB: Agreed. And I don’t think it’s too late to get answers on Kavanaugh’s money. We were on the path to learning something in his first hearing, when Senator Booker released that trove of documents, and Senator Leahy was spilling about past issues with Kavanaugh. This was right before the letter Dr. Ford wrote to Senator Feinstein was leaked—causing the great distraction. And the Guardianreported that sometime before the letter was leaked, Dr. Ford’s email was hacked (which would explain the leak, since Senator Feinstein is clear it didn’t come from her office). Someone should follow up on all of that. My guess is they’re all of a piece.
GO: One of the problems with the coverage of Trump/Russia is that the media, as currently constituted, is very good at generating content for a 24-hour news cycle, but terrible at circling back and providing a Big Picture, an overview. This is something I’ve tried to do for the last three years, as you have, as others have.
You work in Hollywood, as a screenwriter. I’m a novelist and ghostwriter. Louise Mensch wrote a bunch of romance novels before she was in Parliament. Eric Garland is a futurist, also trained to look at the Big Picture. Do you think there is some correlation, or is that just a coincidence?
LB: Storytellers understand two things: character and world. We look at how a character progresses over time, and what motivates him/her. We understand them through the world they live in—the things they have to do to survive and thrive based on the rules of that world. So, no. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that people who understand character and world have a firm grasp on the context of Trump/Russia. I think it’s a goddamn travesty that people who don’t are controlling the narrative.
Photo credit: President Donald Trump being sworn in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump wears a sky-blue cashmere Ralph Lauren ensemble. He holds his left hand on two versions of the Bible, one childhood Bible given to him by his mother, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. Jonathan Adams (2017-01-20) via White House Facebook page.
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Trump’s mob connections
Trump’s mob connections
Following the White House’s release of the transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff called Trump’s pressure on Zelensky to help him smear former Vice-President Joe Biden, “a classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader."
The comparison was fitting, considering Trump is known to havemultiple ties to mobsters. Trump himself was quoted saying that he was tentative to sign onto participating in the reality show “The Apprentice” due to the number of “mobsters” frequenting his place of work.
"I don't want to have cameras all over my office, dealing with contractors, politicians, mobsters and everyone else I have to deal with in my business," Trump told a panel at the Museum of Television and Radio in Los Angeles, in 2004. "You know, mobsters don't like, as they are talking to me, having cameras all over the room. It would play well on television, but it doesn't play well with them."
Trump’s behavior and language have also been likened to that of mobsters by several news outlets, who have noted that his speech is often peppered with terms typically used by members of the mob, like late Gambino family boss John Gotti. The president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, who is currently serving a three-year sentence in federal prison for tax evasion and campaign finance violation, has also remarked that Trump operates “much like a mobster would do,”in February, while testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. And Cohen should know – he has alleged mob connections himself.
Perhaps it’s common when working as a major real estate developer and landlord in New York City to brush up against mob-connected figures. The Five Families of New York have historically been influential in the city’s construction unions and private waste management companies, for example. Even so, Trump’s history of friendly – and sometimes ethically dubious – interactions with mobsters is remarkably long and complex.
To break it down, we’ve compiled a list of the president’s most notable Mafia connections:
Roy Cohn
Known as one of New York’s most ferocious and cold-hearted lawyers, Roy Cohn worked for U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a slew of New York city mobsters, such as members of the Genovese crime family – and Trump. Cohn became Trump’s attorney in the 1970s, and it has been reported that the pair spoke on the phone as frequently as five times per day, while working together.
Many of Cohn’s mob-connected clients also controlled a large portion of New York City’s construction unions. Trump employed construction companies run by mafiosos Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano to build his Trump Plaza and Trump Tower apartment buildings.
House Wreckers Union Local 95
The union, run mainly by the Genovese crime family, hired a large swath of nonunion, undocumented Polish and South Korean demolition workers to work alongside its union members. Trump used Local 95’s undocumented workers in 1979 to demolish the Bonwit Teller department store in order to make way for Trump Tower.
Trump denied knowing that he had employed undocumented workers, but was nevertheless fined $325,000 on the grounds of partipacting in a conspiracy to violate a fiduciary duty, in 1991. Though, the case was settled in negotiations and an agreement was sealed – so it’s unclear how much of the fine Trump actually paid.
John Staluppi
Trump created his first name-licensing deal with a luxury limo rental company owned by John Staluppi, a “made” member of the Colombo crime family in 1988, according to Newsweek.
Daniel Sullivan
A large, gregarious man, with a criminal record and ties to the Mafia, Daniel Sullivan began working for Trump as a “labor consultant.” Later, the pair operated a drywall manufacturing business together that was connected to a racketeering scheme involving the carpenters' union and the Genovese crime family.
Sullivan also introduced Trump to Kenneth Shapiro, who worked for Philadelphia mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo as their financier and agent, which he and Trump entered into an Atlantic City land-leasing deal with.
After Trump was advised that Sullivan would hurt his ability to secure a casino license, by the New Jersey's Gaming Enforcement agency, Trump cut ties with Sullivan – though, the two still kept in contact. Trump later offered Sullivan the position of chief labor negotiator at his organization, according to his former “consultant.”
Michael Cohen & Felix Sater
Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, ran Brooklyn social club El Caribe, which was frequented by members of Italian-American and Russian-American organized crime families in the 1970s and 1980s. Leaders of the Russian mob, Evsei Agron and Marat Balagula, were known for using the club as their personal office and handled their “business” there for years.
Cohen also has close ties with Felix Sater, a Russian-born investor, connected to both the New York and Russian mafia, whom Cohen has known since childhood. Sater’s father was also "a reputed capo in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate," Talking Points Memo reported in 2018. Despite his mob connections, Sater is also said to have been an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations and an asset for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Once a stockbroker, Sater lost his license in the 1990s for participating in a mob-linked plot to inflate marginal stocks and unload them onto unsuspecting investors and hiding the profits abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2016. The former broker was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to prison. He also spent time in prison, for slamming the stem of a martini glass into a man’s face during a bar fight.
The former attorney worked with Sater on a Trump Tower deal in Moscow, while Trump was on the campaign in 2015.Though, Trump has denied knowing Sater in the past, there is conclusive evidence that he worked for the Trump Organizationas a broker for years. In emails to Cohen, Sater boasted about having ties to Russian President Vladamir Putin, saying that he would solidify the real estate deal in Russia that Trump’s organization was pursuing with the president’s help – and help secure Trump the presidency. There is no evidence that Sater ever delivered on his promises. The Trump Tower Moscow deal eventually fizzled out and since the news of Sater’s involvement in Trump’s Russia dealings emerged he has practically vanished from the public eye.
Robert LiButti
Trump denied knowing racehorse trader and high-rolling gambler, Robert LiButti, who is said to have had ties to John Gotti, when probed by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1991. But LiButti’s daughter, Edith Creamer, told Yahoo News in 2016 that is simply not true, and that Trump knew very well who her father was, and that she and her father had both flown with Trump in his helicopter. It was also reported that Trump took an interest in LiButti’s daughter, prompting the high-roller to threaten the future president to stay away, or suffer the loss of his, uh, crown jewels, so to speak. Even more damning, there’s a video of LiButti and Trump attending the “WrestleMania IV” event together in 1988.
Trump almost bought a $500,000 racehorse from LiButti, but backed out at the last minute, according to Yahoo, and once personally handed the alleged mob affiliate a $350,000 check while he was gambling at a craps table in Trump’s casino.
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Remember. He's a fukking idiot. And he's not fooling anyone.
So just put it all together.
He's allowed to do this shyt cause the feds needed some access to the black market underworld
So just put it all together.
He's allowed to do this shyt cause the feds needed some access to the black market underworld
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I'm not gonna entirely dismiss this theory... 
But why would he be allowed to get away with the Russian ties/influence for so long when it's a threat to national security?
But why would he be allowed to get away with the Russian ties/influence for so long when it's a threat to national security?
nikka you sound high as fukk.
