waitresses, bartenders, employees at every level. also, lawyers. his own lawyers. and that ends up being important. over the course of his business career, according to what usa today reporters were able to dig up through all these legal filings, in several instances, he retained law firms to represent him in these cases where he got sued because he had allegedly stiffed his workers. his plumbers or dishwashers or somebody, sue him because they say trump hasn t paid them what they owe him. those same law firms ended up suing donald trump as well because they said he then didn t pay his legal bills after they represented him in cases where other people said he didn t pay them either. i can t say they weren t warned, right? in 2008, that was a new york law firm who trump hired to help fight contractors over alleged
they got sammy the bull out of witness protection. right? he had testified against john gotti. he was in the witness protection program. living in obscurity in arizona for years after his blockbuster testimony put john gotti away. one of the highest ranking mob guys to ever flip on the stand, right? but the prosecutor who had overse sammy e bu s case, who product him, who had overseen him flipping to testify against john gotti, who helped do the deal to send him off to live this new anonymous life for the rest of his days in arizona, that individual prosecutor personally flew out to arizona to do the impossible. to persuade sammy the bull to do it again. to come back out of hiding, come out of the witness protection program and testify once again against another crime boss. this time against vinnie the chin. the head of yet another new york crime family. flew out to arizona. persuaded him. the guy did it. and that s part of how they finally put vinnie the chin
but for most other modern presidents, there is somebody. president nixon went through not one, but two outside private lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preeminent constitutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up to the supreme court before they lost that case. during iran/contra, president reagan retained republican super lawyer ted olson as his private counsel. ronald reagan s successor, president george h.w. bush hired jimmy carter s attorney general, griffin bell, to be his private outside lawyer when the iran/contra issues followed him into his term as president.
right? but the prosecutor who had overseen sammy the bull s case, who product him, who had overseen him flipping to testify against john gotti, who helped do the deal to send him off to live this new anonymous life for the rest of his days in arizona, that individual prosecutor personally flew out to arizona to do the impossible. to persuade sammy the bull to do it again. to come back out of hiding, come out of the witness protection program and testify once again against another crime boss. this time against vinnie the chin. the head of yet another new york crime family. flew out to arizona. persuaded him. the guy did it. and that s part of how they finally put vinnie the chin away despite the whole bathrobe and slippers act. in new york city, they call him the oddfather. and now vincent gigante has been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. his lawyers have said he s mentally ill. he s a familiar figure on the
lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preempent in institutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up to the supreme court before they lost that case. during iran/contra, president reagan retained republican super lawyer ted olson as his private counsel. ronald reagan s successor, president george h.w. bush hired jimmy carter s attorney general, griffin bell, to be his private outside lawyer when the iran/contra issues followed him into his term as president. president bill clinton retained big name lawyers david kendall, bob bennett to represent him during the monica lewinsky affair. so presidents hire outside