Trump's Mafia Links Comes To Light - Is This Why He Refuses To Release His Taxes?

[UCmeNdc]

Why won't Trump release his taxes? This is the question dogging the candidate over the last few weeks, especially since just last week he came out and said that he refuses to do so until after the election. Rumors of paying no taxes, offshore accounts, little to no charitable donations (going against his claim that he donates A LOT) and earning significantly less than the hundreds of millions he claims have been the most accepted reasons.

The Washington Post has presented another idea - Mafia ties. Today they published an article that outlines a long and, at times, very close relationship between Trump and a former Mafia figure, Felix Sater.

Sater is a Russian born businessman who emigrated to the U.S. as a child and led a colorful life in business. The Washington Post reports that he started his career as a stock broker but lost his trading license after a vicious attack at a bar which led to him serving a year in prison. Following his release, he linked up a friend who ran a "Mafia-linked" brokerage firm, which led to a new charge of racketeering in a massive $40 million stock fraud in 1998. He managed to dodge prison time by providing witness testimony in another case.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/05/trumps-possible-mafia-links-comes-light

This might explain Donald Trump's Ties to Russians and Putin

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. His supporters will like him more and the BoB folks dont care no matter how many people suffer

[KamaAina]

2. "The Washington Post has presented another idea"

This may well explain the vulgar talking yam's vendetta against WaPo.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027829543

Got fascism?

[gratuitous]

3. It would be irresponsible not to speculate

He's clearly hiding something, why not give free rein to our speculative instincts.

Curious about Felix Sater: Trump seems to know just enough about him to claim that he doesn't know anything about him.

[saltpoint]

4. It's hard to say what Trump is up to

now, or what he was up to in the past. It doesn't look good generally, and over the last 12 months or so, he's spoken coarsely and dismissively of human beings who work a hell of a lot harder than he ever did for a way lot less than he says he's worth.

Mafia ties are possible. Which is not to say we get to object to the very long list of everything else Trump represents.

Fairly often we see pieces about anti-intellectualism in U.S. American society. IMO, a documentary series on this would be a very good topic for someone like Ken Burns on public television. I would expect Donald Trump to be mentioned more than once in such a series.

[Octafish]

5. Possible?

The guy was friends with Roy Cohn.

"Who do they think we are, communists?" -- it was Barzini

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/trump-s-mobbed-up-mccarthyite-mentor.html

[world wide wally]

6. Is there even a doubt that a real estate, construction mogul from NYC has ties to the Sopranos?

[Wounded Bear]

7. No shit...

anybody with his amount of "success" in that town's real estate and construction industries must have rubbed elbows with some unsavory characters along the way.

[moondust]

8. Could be a motion picture.

Kid inherits millions, hits it off with the Mafia, makes deals and builds hotels in gambling meccas, can't control his NPD, runs for President and wins. Or something.