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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:55 PM Mar 2016

Drumpf ties to mobster, racist casino policies alleged in new report

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/downashore/Trump-ties-to-mobster-racist-casino-policies-resurface-in-new-report.html

In a bombshell new report, Yahoo reporter Michael Isikoff, who was a key figure in exposing the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal, writes that the daughter of a reputed New Jersey mobster says her dad had a long, cozy relationship with Trump. She told Isikoff her father, Robert LiButti, gambled heavily in Trump's casino, rode on his helicopter and hung out on his yacht.

Trump has denied in the past and now again that he had any personal relationship, or even recognized the name, with LiButti, who was banned from Atlantic City casinos over his ties to New York mob boss John Gotti.

But LiButti was a well known figure to gaming investigators, who in 1991 investigated and then fined Trump Plaza $200,000 for accommodating LiButti's desire not to have African Americans or women at his gambling tables.

Nine employees alleged that the casino "repeatedly removed African-Americans and women from craps tables after LiButti, one of the highest-rolling gamblers in the city’s history, loudly complained about their presence when he was playing," Isikoff wrote in the report.


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Drumpf ties to mobster, racist casino policies alleged in new report (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
There is no silver bullet for this guy lame54 Mar 2016 #1
well this will just endear him more to the very base base of the gop. mopinko Mar 2016 #2
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