The Trump Family Enterprise (Trump Organization) qualifies under R.I.C.O.
The Supreme Court has held that "RICO is equally applicable to a criminal enterprise that has no legitimate dimension or has yet to acquire one" as it is to a legitimate enterprise.
United States v. Turkette, 452 U.S. 576, 591, 101 S.Ct. 2524, 2533, 69 L.Ed.2d 246 (1981).
The courts have long recognized that organized crime families, a council of leaders of organized crime families, or divisions of organized crime families may qualify as RICO enterprises.
United States v. Persico, 832 F.2d 705 (2d Cir.1987) (Colombo Family); United States v. Langella, 804 F.2d 185 (2d Cir.1986) (the Commission of La Cosa Nostra); United States v. Local 560, 780 F.2d 267 (3d Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1140, 106 S.Ct. 2247, 90 L.Ed.2d 693 (1986) (Provenzano Group of Genovese Family); United States v. Santoro, 647 F.Supp. 153 (E.D.N.Y.1986) (Lucchese Family).
The Trump Family Enterprise (Trump Organization) is allegedly characterized by "an ongoing organization"
(The Trump Family Enterprise (Trump Organization) is a hierarchy consisting of Boss (DJ Trump, Sr)., Underboss, Consiglieri, Capos, and associates); headed by said Boss and secretly organized, fraudulently operating at great US taxpayer expense).
The Trump Family Enterprise (Trump Organization) is also alleged to "function as a continuing unit," in its conduct of various unlawful activities for profit from 1974 (Fred Trump, Boss) to the present, (DJ Trump, Boss).
The alleged criminal organization, The Trump Family Enterprise (Trump Organization) thus possesses the qualities of "relatedness and continuity" which the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held must characterize a RICO enterprise.*
United States v. Ianniello, 808 F.2d at 191-92 (discussing Sedima, S.P.L.R. v. Imrex Co., 473 U.S. 479, 496 n. 14, 105 S.Ct. 3275, 3286 n. 14, 87 L.Ed.2d 346 (1985)); see United States v. Benevento, 836 F.2d 60, 72 (2d Cir.1987)
(*"so long as the enterprise is long and elaborate enough to be considered continuing, the enterprise requirement is satisfied").
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1- Mr. Trump, did you or did you not pay $7.8 Million dollars to a company owned by Fat Tony Salerno, the mafia BOSS of the Genovese crime family? Yes or no?
Question 2- When this mafia boss Fat Tony Salerno was indicted in 1986, the charges specifically mentioned his involvement in the construction of Trump Plaza. Isn’t that true?Question
3- Mr. Trump, did you or didn’t you also pay millions of dollars to a company owned by John Quadrozzi Sr., who was tied to the Lucchese crime family and who was indicted for making illegal payoffs to the mafia in 1992.Yes or no?
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4- Mr. Trump, according a report by New Jersey gambling regulators,in 1981 you leased some of the land for Trump Plaza and Casino in Atlantic City from a company controlled by Kenneth Shapiro, an associate of Philadelphia Mafia Boss Nicky Scarfo, and mob-connected labor boss Daniel Sullivan. You were aware of their mob connections because you called Shapiro "a third-rate, local mafia" and Sullivan "the guy who killed Jimmy Hoffa." Isn’t that true? Yes or no?
5- Mr. Trump, did you ever tell any law enforcement agency that Mr. Sullivan was the man who murdered Jimmy Hoffa and if not why not?
6- Mr. Trump, you later brought on Mr. Sullivan (the man who you said killed Jimmy Hoffa) to work for you as a labor negotiator at the Grand Hyatt Hotel and even introduced him to your own banker. Isn’t that true? Yes or no?
7- Mr. Trump, in 1982 you bought the property for Trump Plaza and Casino in Atlantic City from the "crown prince" of the Philadelphia mafia, Salvatore Testa, for $1.1 million. Isn’t that true? Yes or no?
8- Mr. Trump, isn’t it true that construction companies controlled by the Top Mafia Boss of Philadelphia Nicky Scarfo ended up building Trump Plaza and Casino? Yes or no?
9- Mr. Trump, isn’t it true that in 1992 a Senate subcommittee named Danny Leung, who was then the Vice President for Foreign Marketing at Trump Taj Mahal, as an associate of the Hong Kong base organized crime group know as the “14K Triad”? Yes or no?
10- Mr. Trump, isn’t it true that the same 1992 Senate subcommittee identified three other business associates or former employees of the Trump gambling empire as members of the Asian organized crime Triads? Yes or no?
11- Mr. Trump, isn’t it true that Danny Leung, the vice president for foreign marketing at Trump Taj Mahal who was a member of the Hong Kong organized crime Triad, once flew 16 Italian mafia figures to your casino who then stole more than $1 million from the casino in a credit scam but that you never filed charges? Yes or no?
12- A man named Felix Sater was a twice-convicted member of the Russian mafia. Mr. Sater served prison time, had documented mafia connections and pleaded guilty to a charge of money laundering in 1998 and was indicted again in 2000 for taking part in a $40 million stock scheme involving four Mafia families.
Yet isn’t it true that starting just 3 years after his last indictment, from 2003 to 2007, that same Mr. Felix Sater traveled the country promoting projects for the Trump organization and that Mr. Sater’s company was actually a partner with you in the Trump SoHo Hotel?
13- And isn’t it true that as recently as 2010, this same twice convicted Mr. Felix Sater returned to the Trump Organization and had business cards that described him as a Trump "Senior Advisor"? Yes or no?