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NY prosecutors examining the Trump Organization seem to be treating it like it s run by mobsters.
Similar to mob organizations, the Trump Org is run by family members who prosecutors want to flip.
Prosecutors could seek racketeering charges, used in both organized crime and business contexts.
When Donald Trump built Trump Tower in New York, he made an unusual decision.
He wanted to build with concrete, when in the 1970s and 1980s large steel beams built the skeletons of most skyscrapers. To supply the massive amount of concrete needed, he paid inflated prices to a company run by Anthony Fat Tony Salerno and Paul Castellano, the respective heads of the Genovese and Gambino crime families. Trump and Salerno shared a personal lawyer, Roy Cohn, at the time.
Former lead prosecutor for Robert Mueller’s special counsel Andrew Weissmann points out the difference between the special counsel’s investigation and the one underway by the Manhattan DA, which is that Trump no longer has the power of the presidency to protect himself
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Former CIA Director John Brennan suggested more exists on the financial front than the public knows within the alleged ties between members of ex-President Donald Trump s orbit and Russia.
Brennan, a longtime intelligence official and vocal Trump critic, acknowledged during a virtual conversation last week that it was up to the FBI to conduct the Russia investigation but indicated there were some troubling developments that came to his attention before leaving office. When I was director of the CIA until I left on Jan. 20 of 2017, there were a number of very concerning interactions between individuals affiliated with the Trump campaign and individuals affiliated with Russia and Russian intelligence. And that s where I think it was incumbent upon the FBI to investigate that, he told Juliette Kayyem, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.