Ian Stuart for BuzzFlash: Trump's Alleged Links to Organized Crime
January 23, 2023
By Ian Stuart
In these 2016 and 1988 "New York Times" articles, you can read about Donald Trump trying to take full control of a casinos related company called Resorts International, about him owning the controlling stake in that company, and about him reportedly trying to turn it into a private company that was exclusively owned by him, which is intriguing, as the late well known writer, and "Village Voice" newspaper founder Norman Mailer alleged that Resorts International was a CIA controlled corporation, which had been run by the late Mafia figure Meyer Lansky, and which had grown out of a company called the Crosby Miller Corporation.
That company was, Mailer alleged, controlled by the Mary Carter Paint Company, which he claimed had been set up by the late CIA Director Allen Dulles (an August 16, 1976 "New York" magazine article written by Mailer, "Mailer on the CIA, a Harlot High and Low, Reconnoitering Through the Secret Government", discusses these various claims).
So if those allegations are true, and it would certainly be interesting to know if they are, because casinos have been linked to Mafia drug money laundering in the past, does Donald Trump have Mafia (and CIA) ties, as the CIA has long worked with the Mafia?
After all, he has described the Mafia as "very nice people", and the late "Village Voice" journalist Wayne Barrett alleged in his book, "Trump: The Deals and the Downfall", that Trump's life "intertwines with the underworld". Trump's personal lawyer, the late Roy Cohn, was also the lawyer for 2 top Mafia men, and Trump Tower, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue, New York home, and New York bunker were all built out of ready mix concrete, which was controlled by the Mafia at the time of their construction.
This BBC "Newsnight" clip, "Donald Trump's business links to the mob", needs no comment.
Former "Guardian" Moscow correspondent Luke Harding's "Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia" (Guardian Books, London, 2012) discusses Putin's alleged influence over Donald Trump, who also allegedly has extensive ties to Russian organised crime, which is also of course involved in drug trafficking.
Craig Unger's "New York Times" bestseller, "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia" (Dutton, New York, 2018) is about those alleged Trump-Russian organised crime ties.
Luke Harding's "Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win the White House" (Guardian Faber, London, 2018) is a "New York Times" number 1 bestseller which explains how Putin's regime helped to put Donald Trump in the White House.
So should we be surprised that Trump's attacks on the FBI and US Justice Department investigation into his election campaign's alleged links to Russia, targeted 3 officials who had "extensive experience in probing money laundering and organised crime, particularly as they pertain to Russia''?