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brooklynite

(94,502 posts)
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 08:02 AM Nov 2016

Video shows Trump with mob figure he denied knowing

Source: Yahoo News

A newly uncovered video appears to contradict Donald Trump’s claim that he never knew a high-stakes gambler who was banned from New Jersey casinos for alleged ties to organized crime.

The reputed mob figure, Robert LiButti, can be seen standing alongside Trump in the front row of a 1988 “WrestleMania” match in Atlantic City, N.J. LiButti wasn’t there by accident, according to his daughter, Edith Creamer, who also attended the event. “We were his guests,” she told Yahoo News in a text message this week.

The video was given to Yahoo News by a confidential source who discovered it in the online archives of World Wrestling Entertainment, the sponsor of “WrestleMania.”

The video appears to lend new support to assertions Trump once had close relations with LiButti, who was banned from the state’s casinos in 1991 because of his ties to Mafia boss John Gotti, then the chief of the Gambino crime syndicate. Separately, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission that same year levied $650,000 in fines against the Trump Plaza hotel over its dealings with LiButti, who gambled huge sums at the hotel’s casino. LiButti died in 2014.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-trump-with-mob-figure-he-denied-knowing-090025964.html

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Video shows Trump with mob figure he denied knowing (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2016 OP
This simple fact would destroy any other campaign. C_U_L8R Nov 2016 #1
He is like the energizer bunny. LisaL Nov 2016 #2
No no--the energizer bunny is so cute!! riversedge Nov 2016 #3
My apologies to the bunny. LisaL Nov 2016 #5
He's like the Sci-Fi B-Movie Blob. Hugin Nov 2016 #8
Or Chuckie. George II Nov 2016 #9
His mob connections are well documented dalton99 Nov 2016 #4
Like this BumRushDaShow Nov 2016 #6
"Record of repeated dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks" dalton99 Nov 2016 #7
He is 100% pure degenerate. Nicest thing I could think of to say about him. nt Lucky Luciano Nov 2016 #10
quite damning coming from you lucky. mopinko Nov 2016 #11
Haha! I know him - he tried to hang with my crew. Lucky Luciano Nov 2016 #12
Apparently the FBI sludge farm didn't wat to lokk for this stuff, that they do have.... Historic NY Nov 2016 #13
Daily Kos posted this story today as well red dog 1 Nov 2016 #15

C_U_L8R

(44,998 posts)
1. This simple fact would destroy any other campaign.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 08:13 AM
Nov 2016

Trump is so heinous in every regard - his transgressions pile a mile high.
Why won't his campaign fall apart? Why TF does anyone support this creep?

Lucky Luciano

(11,253 posts)
12. Haha! I know him - he tried to hang with my crew.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 10:26 AM
Nov 2016

Tried to rip off my gambino buddies. A total loser that one!

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
15. Daily Kos posted this story today as well
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 06:25 PM
Nov 2016

(From Daily Kos article)
"No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump's record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers and other crooks."

ANOTHER DONA;D TRUMP RECORDING EMERGES - AND THIS TIME IT'S A MOB CONNECTION
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/2/1590081/-Another-Donald-Trump-recording-emerges-and-this-time-it-s-a-mob-connection


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