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Daily Archives: April 28th, 2011

NEW YORK —   Donald Trump has boasted that his gambling casinos are free of the Mob, and organized crime, and more on the up-and-up  than any of his competitors. But Trump’s casinos turn out not to be so squeaky clean. 

read the story Marcus Barum, Huffington post

 
One of his prime Atlantic City developments, the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, relied on a partnership with two investors reputedly linked to the mob, prompting New Jersey regulators to force Trump to buy them out. And he employed a known Asian organized crime figure as a vice president at his Taj Mahal casino for five years, defending the executive against regulators’ attempts to take away his license, according to law enforcement officials