Trump’s ties to an informant and FBI agent reveal his mode of operation
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. September 16 at 10:08 AM
Donald Trump listened skeptically as his labor consultant bragged in early 1981 about connections to New York’s underworld.
Daniel Sullivan, who dealt with labor problems at Trump’s construction sites, was a 42-year-old giant of a man with great charm and a criminal record. He told Trump he was tight not only with leaders of unions, some of them fronts for the mob, but also with the FBI.
Trump was dubious. “He was .?.?. a big storyteller,” Trump recently told The Washington Post. “He portrayed himself to be the closest person on earth to the FBI.” It turned out Sullivan was telling the truth. One day in April 1981 he walked into Trump’s Manhattan office with two men in suits. They were FBI agents, and they wanted to talk to Trump about organized crime.
Trump welcomed them in.
That meeting came at a pivotal time early in Trump’s career, when he was trying to establish himself as a Manhattan developer and Atlantic City casino operator. Trump soon deepened his interactions with Sullivan, who turned out to be an FBI informant, and cultivated a friendship with one of the FBI agents, a young investigator named Walt Stowe, who was one of Sullivan’s handlers at the agency.
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