Donald Trump has long been known as a savvy and successful businessman making billions of dollars through the years from various ventures. The owner of Atlantic City Casino’s and fabulous skyscrapers across New York the often out spoken entrepreneur is now campaigning for the 2016 Presidential election. But with his candidacy comes questions as to how he made his billion dollar fortune and any help he may have had along the way. For decades now there have been allegations that Trump’s empire has had a darker side.
For the past decade there have been allegations of links between Donald Trump and the mafia including both New York and Philadelphia crime families. These possible mob links have been the focus of past news paper reports along with government records. According to some including NY investigative journalist Wayne Barrett the connections between Trump and the mafia are rather extensive. In his book “Trump: The Deals and the Downfall by Barrett, Wayne 1st edition (1992) Hardcover
According to records Trump Plaza the Atlantic City Casino built by Trump sits on land purchased from former Philadelphia mobster Salvatore Testa. Barrett notes in his book that the property was purchased by Testa in 1977 for a scant $195,000 and was then sold to Trump in 1982 for a whopping $1.1 million. The purchase of the property at a rate of $220 per square foot was second most expensive purchases Donald made on the block even though it was one of the first purchased writes Barrett. A 1986 New Jersey organized crime report also notes that the casino was built with help of two construction companies controlled by Philadelphia mobsters Nicademo “Little Nicky” Scarfo and Phillip “Crazy Phil” Leonetti.
Trump Plaza condos in Manhattan were built with use of a concrete company S&A which federal court records show was controlled by New York mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Anthony Salerno. Barrett notes in his book that the Trump Towers was built out of concrete instead of steel during a time when the New York mob had control of the majority of the cities concrete industry. During the time when the Trump Tower was built it was nearly impossible for any developer to avoid doing business with the mafia controlled concrete cartel but according to Barrett Trump may have taken the relationship further then he had to.
Trump was part of a 1979 bribery investigation and then a 1981 racketeering probe neither of which led to any kind of charges according to records. None of the possible links between Donald Trump and the mob have ever been substantiated past their basic business ties by law enforcement or anyone else to date. There is no doubt that much of the time Trump did business in the construction industry in both New York and New Jersey that contact with mob controlled companies was almost unavoidable. But it is certain that as Trump’s run to become President of the United States in the 2016 election becomes more extensive so will the scrutiny of these allegations.
People forget that in the 80s and 90s everyone in that business was connected it was not choice
Yes it was more or less a must if you wanted to do business. You either played ball or got left out in the cold in those days.
Don’t forget the ‘Irish’ / AKA.. LMAO.
This is a fact. You could not build in nyc during that time without doing mob business. I read about testa years ago, it’s well documented. That was part of why he was whacked by scarfo. He was under 30, handsome, a millionaire and was a mafia royalty. Scarfo feared he would challenged him.
Yeah he did ( Scarfo), salvie was the man & a all out gangster. Scarfo made the mistake of the life tme by killing salvie even guys in New York whre sme wht puzzled bout testa ‘s killing. The early Scarfo era was the sht, if only if Scarfo wasn’t’t so vindictive the things thse guys could’ve accomplished…yeah sure they may had been sme indictments as tme cme & went but the overall picture would’ve been intact for the next set of leaders. …ijs
Guy was so paranoid it was ridiculous. And i agree to kill Testa was a major misstep and led that family on a down hill spiral when it served no purpose to begin with.
It was a mistake but like i said in the post above he was doing things he should not have and the thing with chuckie he should ha e known better chuckie is a very nasty guy a very bitter man yes scarfo saw the opportunity and jumped on it but chuckie wanted him whacked badly
He got played and should have know better
Chuckie chianglini u mean? Y did he want salvie wacked?
He was referring to Merlino. ….ijs
no i meant merlino salvie got enganged to chuckies daughter and joeys sister they got engaged but salvie was only doing it because she was chuckies daughter they broke up chuckie went nuts and scarfo saw an opportunity to take out a powerful rival. Lawrence, faffy and tommy del and philip all stirred it up
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If phil testa had stayed boss things would have been ok scarfo would of built ac into a major money maker and phil would have kept him under control
Then again who knows I mean bruno okayed and ordered scarfo to do loads of hits I mean he played a hit on a judge who knows what phil would have been like
Like I said in the other posts salvie was dumb and got played
Whacking salvie was a mistake but a lot.went on that people don’t talk about he was dealing heavily in drugs and he spent less and less time around the mob nearer the end not that’s a good reason to whack him.
Still salvie was dumb I mean come on you break of with chuckies daughter embarras him a guy like chuckie salvie got played and a guy who had been around it should have known.
I agree testa should have expected some retaliation. Stupid move on his part, but scarfo was a moron too. Who takes an entire mafia family to Florida to take yacht rides? He was insecure and paranoid. That family never really recovered from Bruno’s murder. Atlantic city was happenstance, like a thug winning the lottery. Even still, I would love to meet him and hear stories. The 80’s bosses of lcn nearly destroyed it all. ThAt and Rico of course
True scarfo had it all he has the chance to make ten times what bruno ever made. Bruno he kept the family small and did not expand that was partly is down fall in my opinion he did not expand the family operations because he was wealthy and did not think he needed more money I think is estimated worth was value around 30 million now that was all good for Bruno but he underestimated the loyalty of his men he forgot he was dealing with gangsters who were not earning and the drug policy was dumb as he was making tons of money with the cherry hill gambinos and beefing with scarfo in AC bruno did not want to expand because he was happy financely
Bruno made a mistake it costed him he forgot he was a boss of la costra nostra. He was also a very violent don people think he was docile but a lot of guys got whAcked in his era remember he okayed the hit on a judge
Now scarfo was making huge money I mean philip leonetti said he collected 3million in 16 months for scarfo when he was away in prison in the 80s. By 1985 you had nick the crow and Charlie white kicking up 3 million each a year. You had the street tax. You had faffy and tommy del and santo idone kicking up. You had lawrence making big money and you had north jeresy patty specs was a good earner. Philip was not a earner a killer and a advisor but earner no. I mean nicky crow said he personally kicked up 7 million in two years I Mena scarfo was making tens of millions another year he would of doubled Bruno
The whole organization made alot of money a lot more in scarfos day than brunos that’s why most tolerated him
They should’ve moved into the Pittsburgh area when they had the muscle, Philly had the bckng of at least two of the five families since the bruno days . Scarfo was the chins puppet, he was the real master mind as to the dwn fall of tht family .the first six murders ordered by the Scarfo era was approved by the the commission headed buy the chin & each of thse bdys resulted in the Genovese gaining more territory. ..esplly the north jersey area rght after tony bananas fell short….ijs
bobby manna the genovese consglieire he was stirring it all up he was scarfos connection. Now bruno was making a mistake not expanding in altantic city. Around 1979 bruno and scarfo was beefing and bobby manna knew the genovese family would benefit from scarfo and altantic city so they naturally backed scarfo but they could not just whack bruno out the other families would not stand for it so they used tieri to use tony in north jeresy which was a terriorty they wanted plus they wanted blackie naploi to be made top guy in north jeresy so they could use him as a proxy and basiciliy run north jeresy philly crew.
Philip testa would have been a good boss but chickie narducci that guy is too greedy
Though the relations between the genovese and philly mob started to break down around 1985/6 it was because of frankie flowers, john gotti and the biggest reason they took down blackie napoli and replaced him with patty specs who was smart and no proxy for the westside
scarfo also whacked everyone took quickly i mean bruno had double the amount of people scarfo had whacked but scarfo was whacking people too often it brings heat after the ricconobeone war he should of calmed down. Those indictments ruined that family because the stanfa and merlino guys no one was teaching them how to earn the scarfo guys violent but major earners they had big scams going union construction major sports betting drug scams fraud and loads of other scams but these merlino guys naha they did not know it when the scarfo guys went away they were all in there early 20s they did not know the life or how to earn or anything they had basic scams thats all they knew you had joey merlino a boss making a living out of hjaking trucks i mean he had guys on a street corner selling things it was ridiculous its why they are so far behind everyone else they did not even know how to run a sports book
Good thng they had uncle joe around when they did, he really saved tht family & got them bck on track..tht family really owes him a great deal.
joe saved that family it woud not be here if not for him. He had a nice operation he had stanio making HUGE money in south jersey, you had mousie in philly, joey scoops in north jersey and then all the other capos.
It was a small family and the top guys earned but a lot of the guys at the bottom did not. The family now is going to crumple again joey merlino is in philly again and after what he and sonny mazzne got up to in margate a couple of weeks back they have not changed the slightest joeys back in town because he knows the family is different now see all joey knows is these low level scams but he is coming back to a different family joeys worried its not just twenty thugs anymore. Steve and johnny chang have some big rackets going on. I think with joey back in philly they are all going to get indicted and the scarfo guys will take over. Joey is bad news though I can see it coming wait till someone flips and we will learn about all the treachy again like we did back in the 90s. There is 30+ made guys in he philly mob I can now think of the top of my head that’s bad because for philly numbers are not good because most of these guys cant earn the scarfo guys are making very good money. The philly guys are moving to the surburbs as well very fast
Yeah i can agree wth the Merlino thng, it is definitely a different family & sme of the top guy’s are as you’ve said are earning really well. I remember not tht long ago when joey cme to Philly for his father’s funeral, it was lke he was out of place. It just ddnt feel rght, the guy’s really wasn’t paying Joey any mind or so it seemed. But you Could feel mazzone presence & you could tell whre the power was. I thght tht to be a lil crzy.but lke I’ve said b4 , joey needs to stay dwn in boca do his thng & just let Steve , uncle joe, phil narducci handle thngs. They will be alrght.
Joey has done some evil things he terriozes people he goes in groups of people and they terrorise people they bet into bookies and never pay when they lose and collect when they win joey is a thug but is also a likeable guy the public love joey and the young guys love joey. ALL the kids back joey they love him but they don’t realize he is bad news joey is back and lately has not been in Florida much he has spent a lot of time at margate and in Philly.
Guess what joey and those thugs got up to they were in a bar in margate and sonny mazzone steve mazzone brother was there. Now sonny is a gofer a wannabe but he got made in 2011 by steve mazzone basically because he was steves brother. Now sonny has always been disliked but he was in the bar and he sees his ex wife and he goes and batters her I mean beats her bloody for no reason they have been divorced for ten years and sonny would never act this way if joey was not there as usual trying to impress joey. Joey sits there with is entourage of wannabes grinning away and no one guy in the pub full of people dared to get involved everyone knows who they are.
Under ligambi most left the locals alone and under scarfo (excluding tommy del he is like joey) the same only ligambi guys like that were marty angelini and mousie.
Joey is loving life he has massive group of wannabes around him who pay everything for joey has not changed the slightest
They have not changed at all steve is more mature but then again he always was a calmer head. Johnny chang is not as close to joey as people think johnny is a ligambi type guy. Marty is dumb. Geogre is crazy who knows what he is thinking. Then guys are joeys inner circle
Thats why Scarfo and Amuso get along they are both little guys who love killed for crazy reasons
They are defo similar personality but amuso got played by casso amuso just followed him around casso was the real power
I remember seeing Casso in Mill Basin ,, he would go to the jew deli near 57 st alot ,, tiny guy but everybody feared him ,, I saw him go after a kid from Nicky Corrozo’s crew outside the 20/20 club ,, the kid left his car and ran to the belt parkway ????
Very scary guy casso very flashy as well one of the most feared guys ever
He hated nicky and that went back to the early 80s and carried on into the 90s it started after that kids garbage got blown up
Nicky had beefs with alot of guys ,, Danny C ,, the Gotti’s ,, Casso .. Sammy A ,, Cutolo,, Scopo ,, not a well like guy
To be fair not Manu liked junior g but a lot of guys did not like nicky. He was a real gangster but sometimes he was to brash when lenny was around he was ok . Yearh he did not like cutlos and he HATED Danny c after what they did to tough tony
Yeah look a wht hppn to the lucchese ‘ s wth vic & gas pipe ect..
Ooooh gah ,, handsome ,, under 30 and a millionaire ,,????
It was all crooked up. Gambino, Genovese, Scarfo, Testa and the Teamsters. Everybody knew about it back then. Giuliani was and is in his pocket. Who do you think looked the other way, then became Mayor. LMAO.
Now that Nicky Scarfo Jr and Sr and Mrs are sitting in Federal prison for the rest of their lives, will they do interviews with FBI or press clarifying their relationships with Trump?