Donald Trump's business links to the mob - BBC Newsnight

Donald Trump says he is worth $11 billion. Im very rich. I'll show you in a second, but he goes and looks at what he's built and some questions arise. Trump Plaza I know the best people and I am totally self-funding my I don't have to tell you how he got so rich. Trump has boasted in the past about his

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with Atlantic City New Jersey Fay's view of Donald Trump in the casino business ended in a pile of broken dreams Trump Plaza closed two years ago four of His gambling businesses disappeared exploded in 1980, when Trump opened his first casino here, some of his business partners worked for the mafia, the scene in New York was no better.

Here lies Fat Tony Solerno, once one of the most feared men in New York, he was the boss of the Genoves. crime family and it just so happens that the man Donald Trump bought his concrete fatony from and other mobsters had a padlock on the concrete in New York. While most builders use steel and some concrete, Trump built the tallest concrete building in New York. Fat Tony Sano was fat and he was the boss of the Geneves crime family, which was the most powerful crime family in the city at the time and the fatony not only supplied Donald Trump with concrete, the two men also shared a lawyer, Roy With, well, the evidence is that uh uh Fat Tony Solo met with Donald Trump in Roy K's office, which makes incredibly logical sense, not only did I have sources tell me that at the time, but if you consider that it's building the largest concrete structure of its time and that the concrete industry is controlled by Fat Tony. it only makes all the sense in the world in the early 90s Trump was almost a billion dollars in the red by 2004 he had recovered and entered reality TV you're fired but here's someone who didn't fire his business partner Felix SATA in 1991 in this bar Felix SATA had a fight with another Wall Street broker SATA broke the stem of a margarita glass and stabbed the man in the neck and face the man got 110 stitches and SATA went to prison when he got out of jail he participated in a $40 million stock fraud that pumped up shares and then sold them at a profit, a pump and dump scam, then SATA made a deal with the FBI to report on his fellow fraudsters in the kosa Nostra.

Sata's conviction was made public, but later in exchange for him cooperating with the feds he was sealed by SATA and Trump began doing business together in the early 2000s, when SATA was an executive at Bayrock. This is one of three developments Donald did with Trump's money, so the name would have thought Trump was the money behind this. project he wasn't he was the only one he was the face in addition to Trump Soho there were two other projects with bayrock Trump Fort Lauderdale in Florida and Trump Camelback in Arizona when property prices began to fall Trump bayrock projects in Florida and Arizona collapsed newsight understands to investors I lost at least $10 million on the Trump deal in Fort Lauderdale alone.

I checked out the location in Fort Lauderdale, it was a great location and I thought with the Trump organization behind it and Mr. Trump, you know, putting his name on the line, I thought about it. he would be very successful he said everything is fine everything is fine in 2013 I challenged Trump about his relationship with Félix CER why didn't you go to Félix CER and tell him that you are connected to a mafia you are fired well first of all we were not the developer there, that was a licensing agreement, but your name was on it, a very simple licensing agreement, a lot about the name, Mr.

Trump, excuse me, but I don't know, you're telling me things I don't even know, I mean you. You're telling me about Felix Sather, I know who he is, uh, I know about him and I know who he is. You stayed in bed, if I may say so, with Felix SATA and he was connected to the mafia again. John, maybe you're stupid, but. When you have a signed contract, in this country you can't just break it. Sometimes we sign a deal and the partner is not as good as we would like, but that happens and by the way, John, I hate doing this. but I have that big group of people waiting so I have to, well wait one last question please sir I have to go thank you okay so News Night has been awarded one of Trump Bayrock's key contracts that recently has been revealed by the courts and what Trump told me was not true, look at this, it is what is known as a bad boy clause that states that bck will not do anything to distribute or in any way harm or harm the convictions of the Trump-branded sedans were reported by the New York Times in December 2007.

The critical question is before then, did Trump know about SATA's extortion past? Here's some evidence Trump might have found when they started doing business together. guilty plea was announced publicly around the world in a press release issued by the United States Attorney's Office in New York and co-authored with the local FBI office the press release was disseminated around the world and published even in The Guardian I think it was published in Australia I'm not sure it was published in The New York Daily News also published that same day an indictment against his co-conspirators and that indictment identified Félix Seder by name as one of the co-conspirators and that that was a public record of a third tip in 2006 that could have alerted Trump to SATA's past was a lawsuit alleging that it threatened to kill a Trump Bayrock investor that Ernie Menz had bought into Trump Camelback in Arizona, learned about SATA's past and then said he received a phone call.

The case was later settled, but in lawsuit. Menace said SATA threatened to give a man an electric shock. Mr. Menace's testicles severed Mr. Menz's legs and left Mr. Menz dead in the trunk of his car. SATA's lawyer says this claim was an absolute fabrication. Fred Oberlander has acted for clients who sued Bayrock. In my opinion, I have to be deaf, dumb and blind, the ability of someone like Donald Trump to know who he was doing business with and who he was selling the right to use his name would certainly include finding the press release and the Congressional Record where was put in November 2000 Trump has said he didn't know about sata's past until December 2007.

We do as much background checks as possible on principles. He didn't really know him very well. This is tape number one of the video. decisive position of Mr. Donald J. Trump on the matter six months after my interview, he said this about how many times he has conversed with Mr. Seder over the years over the years if he could estimate not many not many If he was sitting in the room right now, he wouldn't really know what he looked like, okay, surprisingly, that was three years after SATA had an office in Trump Tower, an email from Trump, and a business card that listed him as Trump's senior advisor, Mr.

Felix Sater. Felix Sater now sees himself as a reformed character. My life has been more than interesting. My wife says that living with me is like reading next week's newspaper today. Oberlander and the students say SATA did not disclose its beliefs to the banks, so the argument continues. The Trump Bayrock deals are based on bank fraud. His name is still on Trump Soho, which is a Bayrock project and he is still making profits from that building built on fraud. In my opinion, he has an ethical obligation at the very least to disassociate himself from Trump. Soho, because that project was based on bank fraud, Sat's lawyer told Newsight that his client will not comment on either Trump or Bayoc, adding that SATA is not and has never been connected to the mafia, so , what's up with Trump's boast that he's 100% clean? did business with people like Fat Tony Salerno and Felix SATA claimed that Donald Trump cannot clean up his friction with the mafia