Donald Trump Used Mafia Boss 'Fat Tony' For His Business Ventures?
Donal Trump has had to endure a level of scrutiny into his life that he has never been subjected to at any other point in the past and that is something that he has taken in the stride as he looks to become the Republican candidate for the US Presidential elections later this year. However, the latest revelations by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston in an article in the publication Politico will certainly come as a bit of a shock for Trump's supporters since it reveals his association with the American Mafia and in particular his relations with Mafia boss Anthony 'Fat Tony' Salerno of the infamous Genovese crime family. According to that article, the Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 elections had very close ties with the mafia boss and took the help of construction companies run by the mafia for the construction of some of his signature properties like the Trump Plaza and Trump Tower.
Fat Tony was in charge of the concrete firm known as S&A Concretes and Trump paid him over the market rate in order to make sure that the construction of his buildings were done quicker, without any potential trouble from unions. The article states: - 'Even a brief labor slowdown can turn into an expensive disaster. But with Cohn as his lawyer, Trump apparently had no reason to personally fear Salerno or Castellano-at least, not once he agreed to pay inflated concrete prices. What Trump appeared to receive in return was union peace. That meant the project would never face costly construction or delivery delays'.
The author further goes on to add a snippet from the indictment of Fat Tony, "The indictment on which Salerno was convicted in 1988 and sent to prison, where he died, listed the nearly $8 million contract for concrete at Trump Plaza, an East Side high-rise apartment building, as one of the acts establishing that S &A was part of a racketeering enterprise."
