New details emerge in new massive 400-page FBI file on Trump Company 1970's racism

[sunonmars]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4229604/FBI-files-alleged-1970s-discrimination-Trump.html

Hundreds of FBI documents have been released detailing the investigation into whether Donald Trump's real estate company racially discriminated against people in the 1970s - while his father, Fred, was in charge.
Included in the 389 page file published online by the FBI on its Freedom of Information Act website on Wednesday are details on interviews carried out by investigators during the probe that ran from 1972 to 1974.
The files show agents spoke to tenants, management and employees - as they were trying to determine whether it was made harder for minorities to rent from the Trump Management Company.
One of the interviews, which was conducted with an employee of Fred Trump's, detailed how the president's father allegedly 'wanted to get rid of the blacks that were in the building'.


A total of 389 pages were published online by the FBI's FOI website Wednesday
Included in the documents are interviews with former tenants, staff and bosses
In one interview a former employee said Fred Trump was biased against 'blacks'
'Fred Trump told me not to rent to blacks,' the manager was quoted as saying
Fred and Donald Trump had a discrimination lawsuit filed against them in 1973
They would later enter a consent decree settling the litigation in 1975 - but in it there were not any admissions of wrongdoing by them or the Trump company

Another interview was conducted with a former doorman at a Trump building in Brooklyn in 1974.
The man said a supervisor: 'told me that if a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment.'
The files also contained cease and desist orders that alleged discriminatory practices were taking place, and a ruling from the New York State Human Rights Commission.
The HRC letter read: 'A preliminary study of the tenant selection pattern of Trump Village indicates a pursuit of tenant selection policies and practices which have directly or indirectly created a discriminatory restrictive pattern precluding Negroes and Puerto Ricans, because of their race, color or national origin, from obtaining apartments.'

https://vault.fbi.gov/trump-management-company/Trump%20Management%20Company%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view

[BumRushDaShow]

1. This is why he settled

as he does most of his malfeasances.

[sunonmars]

2. amazing timing for the release of these documents by the FBI, just last night.....

[Ms. Toad]

3. Daddy and Donald are two different people.

Could you modify your headline to clarify that the article is about Fred Trump, not Donald Trump.

(I know the apple may not fall far from the tree - but the headline suggested the article was about Donald (since he is the most prominent Trump), and and first response suggests I'm not the only one who read it that way.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick.

[HoneyBadger]

5. NYC was a rough place to be a person of color back in the day

Years after this era I was a 20 year kid making $50k and driving a nice car (hello tech), and it was hard for me to rent in Sheepshead Bay (very near that Ocean Parkway address). They would look at my face, and you could see the wheels turn. Everyone assumed that I was a dealer.