08-24-2016, 02:07 AM
From Mother Jones Trump files. How Trump dodged a (standard) Federal investigation for new casino owners for ties to the mob and other stuff..
Quote:The state lived up to its six-month timeframe, but Trump didn't exactly hold up his end of the bargain. The Casino Commission's forms required Trump and other would-be casino owners to list any times they were the subject of government investigations "for any reason." But, as investigative journalist David Cay Johnston writes in his new book, The Making of Donald Trump, Trump failed to list four separate government probes into his business dealings.The Trump Files: How Donald Tried To Hide His Legal Troubles to Get His Casino Approved | Mother Jones
And while three of those investigations hadn't resulted in charges, the fourth was the Department of Justice's huge 1973 lawsuit that accused Trump's management company of blocking black families from renting apartments in Trump-owned buildings. That case made headlines in New York—especially when Trump countersued the government for $100 million—and ended with the company agreeing to a range of anti-discrimination measures. Johnston points out that Trump lied about the case in another section of the application as well. "Casino owner applicants were asked about being accused of any civil misconduct, which would include racial discrimination in housing," Johnston writes. "Trump checked the 'no' box."