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Thu Feb 16, 2017, 12:17 AM Feb 2017

FBI releases documents related to apartment discrimination

BY MEGAN R. WILSON - 02/15/17 07:02 PM EST

The FBI on Wednesday released hundreds of pages of its notes surrounding the 1970s investigation of racial discrimination in housing units owned by Trump Management Co., run by President Donald Trump’s late father, Fred.

The probe, which took place from 1972 to 1974, was part of one of the largest of such discrimination cases brought in that era. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ultimately filed a suit in 1973.

Donald Trump, 27 years old at the time and four years out of business school, held a news conference at a Manhattan hotel, calling the government’s claims “such outrageous lies,” according to an in-depth account of the case published by the Washington Post last year ...

... the government and Trump Management entered into a consent decree in June 1975 ...


http://thehill.com/homenews/news/319788-fbi-releases-documents-related-to-trump-apartment-discrimination-case

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