Investigative Report Claims Trump Has Mob Ties

As an associate of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, LiButti was bound to intimidate anyone who was unlucky enough to cross paths with him. Indeed, according to his daughter, he liberally dropped the name of his boss when making demands to Trump’s unwitting casino staff:

“The secret tape recording proved to be LiButti’s undoing — but because of other comments he made that day. The gambler was then trying to pressure Tracy to pay an additional $250,000 for Roselli’s services by repeatedly invoking the name of Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family. LiButti referred to Gotti as ‘my boss.’ He talked about meetings he had had with Gotti and suggested that he bring him down to Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. Calling LiButti’s statements “sinister and chilling,” Assistant Attorney General Schwefel filed a motion before the Casino Control Commission to bar LiButti from all New Jersey casinos on the grounds that he was a Gotti ‘associate’ — a request that was approved by the commission on Aug. 21, 1991.

At the time, the Casino Control Commission was also moving to fine Trump Plaza for its past efforts to placate LiButti by keeping blacks and women away from his craps tables. According to the commission’s documents on the case, LiButti flew into fits of rage whenever he lost money at the craps tables, flinging dice and gaming chips around the casino and grabbing the stick from a stickperson’s hand and breaking it in half.

He also made it clear that ‘he did not want women, blacks or other minorities dealing or supervising his games,’ according to one filing by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. He referred to one Trump Plaza floor person as a ‘dumb c***’ and ‘dumb bitch,’ another as a ‘Jew broad’ and an African-American dealer as a ‘black bastard.’ Finding himself playing with an African-American at his craps table, LiButti shouted, ‘Shoot the f***ing dice. Shoot the f***ing dice like you’re f***ing some n*****,’ according to testimony in the case.

State officials argued that, rather than removing some of its employees from LiButti’s craps tables, the hotel should have removed LiButti from the casino. But it didn’t, the officials contended, because Trump’s casino had put profits above following the state’s laws against racial discrimination.

‘Certainly, it would have been so much better if the casino itself had thrown LiButti out at the time that he committed these acts, but they didn’t because he was a very high roller, obviously,’ Schwefel argued at a March 13, 1991, hearing on the case. ‘If LiButti had been a five- or 10-dollar customer, they would have thrown him right out, literally without asking any questions. The problem again is that the casino did not want to get rid of a high roller of his dimension.’

Trump’s lawyers aggressively challenged the charges of discrimination, seeking to discredit the testimony of its employees who filed complaints and arguing it had had ‘no formal policy’ of removing African-Americans and women from LiButti’s craps tables.

‘Trump Plaza is being found in violation based only on an aura of discrimination,’ said Brian Spector, the lawyer for the Trump hotel. ‘Something may look like discrimination, feel like discrimination and even smell like discrimination, but you need discriminatory intent. It simply hasn’t been proven.’

But Casino Control Commission officials didn’t buy it, and on June 5, 1991, they doubled the gaming division’s recommended $100,000 fine to $200,000 to reflect what one commissioner contended was the ‘gravely serious’ nature of the offense. Three months later, the commission leveled another $450,000 fine against the Trump Plaza — this time for buying LiButti nine luxury autos, including Ferraris, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces worth $1.6 million, that he then exchanged for cash, a violation of state laws at the time that barred cash comps for high rollers. Documents from the case show that the Trump Plaza also provided LiButti with other ‘comps’ that included paying $104,338 for five European vacations and one to California; $279,978 for tickets to the Super Bowl, boxing matches and other sporting and theater events; $121,712 for jewelry; and $40,020 for Champagne that included 178 bottles of Cristal Rosé, valued at $225 a bottle.

It was only the start of LiButti’s legal problems. He was tried and convicted in 1994 for tax fraud in what federal prosecutors described as the largest case of federal income tax evasion in New Jersey history. A federal judge sentenced him to five years in prison. He died in 2014.

Creamer, LiButti’s daughter, said her father blamed Trump in part for some of his problems, apparently because Tracy agreed to be wired for the conversation in which he had invoked Gotti’s name. She declined to talk about her father’s alleged Mafia associations. ‘That is something I don’t want to talk about,’ she said. But she strongly insisted that her father was not a racist. ‘He was a character,’ she said. ‘He had a heart of gold.’ While acknowledging that her father ‘did have a foul mouth,’ she added that derogatory comments were made to everybody. ‘He loved black people,’ she said. ‘He used to throw them money all the time’ when he won at the craps table.

And while keenly disappointed that Trump denied knowing her father, Creamer said she is still backing him for president. ‘I’m voting for Trump,’ she said. ‘He’ll change the world — I think we need that.’ In fact, Creamer added, before her father died — and Trump was talking about running for president in 2011 — he expressed similar sentiments. ‘I’m going to vote for the SOB,’ she recalled him saying.”

Creamer clarified, however, that she didn’t think Trump was a crook or bad person in general. In fact, she thinks that he will change the world if he becomes president, adding, “I think we need that.”

Source: Yahoo News, Newsmax