What You Mean That a New York City Developer in the Casino Business Is Mobbed Up?

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! To find that gambling is going on this establishment.  (Your winnings, sir.)

I've been saying that Trump is mobbed up for more than a decade,  Someone else got the receipts.

Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casino empire, once billed as a monument to US capitalism was, according to federal law enforcement records, bankruptcy filings, and U.S. Senate testimony from the 1980s and 1990s, riddled with ties to organized crime, financial misconduct, political corruption, and links to international intelligence networks.

Between the opening of Trump Plaza in 1984 and the bankruptcy of the Trump Taj Mahal in 2014, Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casinos were repeatedly flagged in law enforcement files and Senate testimony for their exposure to money laundering and proximity to organized crime. Investigations described the properties as key points of entry for illicit funds, narcotics trafficking, and political influence, operating for decades with minimal regulatory pushback and, at times, apparent political protection.

Mobbed-Up Construction and Contracts

From the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, Trump Plaza and Trump Castle were constructed using subcontractors later exposed by law enforcement as mafia fronts. One of the most notorious was S&A Concrete, a ready-mix provider clandestinely controlled by Genovese boss Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Gambino leader Paul Castellano. Federal indictments revealed that S&A was awarded a $7.8 million contract for Trump Plaza, alongside numerous other Trump properties, at inflated rates, a strategy to launder money into the coffers of New York’s most powerful mafia families.

 It wasn't just Trump, of course, it appears that Les Wexner was doing much the same thing.

You remember Les Wexner, he was the guy who was paying Jeffrey Epstein millionas of dollars for doing ……… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ……… I can't imagine what.

Imagine that.

Lots of money laundering to, because casinos are the perfect way to launder money.

You gamble, you lose 20%, you cash in your chips, and your money is now untraceable.

Not just American mobsters though.  The Russian mob was heavily involved in all of this as well.

Gee, hoocoodanode? 

Well, the next time I hear a story from the New York Times about Trump being on a camlaighn junckett and greeted by a  mob of adoring fans, it will have a VERY different connotation.