Mafia Commission trial & prosecution of the American Mob
In the Mafia Commission Trial (February 25, 1985 – November 19, 1986), Giuliani indicted eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families", under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire. Time magazine called this "Case of Cases" possibly "the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943", and quoted Giuliani's stated intention: "Our approach is to wipe out the five families."[43] Eight defendants were found guilty on all counts and subsequently sentenced on January 13, 1987 to hundreds of years of prison time.[44][45]
According to an FBI memo revealed in 2007, leaders of the five New York mob families voted in late 1986 on whether to issue a contract for the death of U.S. attorney Rudolph Giuliani.[46] Heads of the Lucchese, Bonanno, and Genovese families rejected the idea, though Colombo and Gambino leaders, Carmine Persico and John Gotti encouraged assassination.[47][48] In 2014, it was revealed by former Sicilian Mafia member and informant, Rosario Naimo, that Salvatore Riina, a notorious Sicilian Mafia leader, had ordered a murder contract on Giuliani during the mid-1980s. Riina allegedly became suspicious of his efforts against prosecuting the American Mafia and was worried that Giuliani might have spoken with Italian anti-mafia prosecutors and politicians, including Giovanni Falcone, who would be murdered in 1992 by a car bombing. According to Giuliani, the Sicilian Mafia offered $800,000 for his death during his first year as Mayor of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani#Mafia_Commission_trial_&_prosecution_of_the_American_MobREPUTED MOB LEADER AMONG 15 INDICTED ON RACKETEERING COUNTS
22 Mar 1986
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United States Attorney in Manhattan, announced the charges in a news conference at his office. He said the bid-rigging charged in the indictment had added many millions of dollars to the cost of major construction projects in Manhattan.
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Besides Mr. Halloran, the businessmen were identified as Nicholas Auletta, 53, of Pelham Manor, president of S & A Concrete Company; Alvin O. Chattin, 57, of Dix Hills, L.I., vice president of Transit-Mix, and Richard Costa, 49, of Scarsdale, an officer of Marathon Enterprises.
The four other defendants were identified as John Tronolone, 75, of Miami Beach, called a Cleveland crime-family member; Milton Rockman, 73, of Cleveland, an associate; Alphonse Mosca, 51, of Garden City, L.I., called a Gambino ''family'' member, and Neil Migliore, 52, of South Oyster Bay Cove, L.I., called a Lucchese crime group member. The four were also described as ''associates of the Genovese family.''
All the defendants, except Mr. Rockman, were charged with racketeering and other counts. Mr. Rockman was charged solely with fraud. The racketeering charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, with the other counts carrying sentences of 5 to 20 years.
Buildings where bid-rigging was said to have occurred, besides Trump Plaza, at 167 East 61st Street, included several other luxury apartment buildings and residences for Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, all in Manhattan.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/nyregion/reputed-mob-leader-among-15-indicted-on-racketeering-counts.htmlJust What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?
I've spent years investigating, and here's what's known.
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
May 22, 2016
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There were other irregularities in Trump’s first big construction project. In 1979, when Trump hired a demolition contractor to take down the Bonwit Teller department store to make way for Trump Tower, he hired as many as 200 non-union men to work alongside about 15 members of the House Wreckers Union Local 95. The non-union workers were mostly illegal Polish immigrants paid $4 to $6 per hour with no benefits, far below the union contract. At least some of them did not use power tools but sledgehammers, working 12 hours a day or more and often seven days a week. Known as the “Polish brigade,” many didn’t wear hard hats. Many slept on the construction site.
Normally the use of nonunion workers at a union job site would have guaranteed a picket line. Not at this site, however. Work proceeded because the Genovese family principally controlled the union; this was demonstrated by extensive testimony, documents and convictions in federal trials, as well as a later report by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.
When the Polish workers and a union dissident sued for their pay and benefits, Trump denied any knowledge that illegal workers without hard hats were taking down Bonwit with sledgehammers. The trial, however, demonstrated otherwise: Testimony showed that Trump panicked when the nonunion Polish men threatened a work stoppage because they had not been paid. Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a labor fixer and FBI informant, who told him to fire the Polish workers.
Trump knew the Polish brigade was composed of underpaid illegal immigrants and that S&A was a mob-owned firm, according to Sullivan and others. "Donald told me that he was having his difficulties and he admitted to me that — seeking my advice — that he had some illegal Polish employees on the job. I reacted by saying to Donald that 'I think you are nuts,'" Sullivan testified at the time. "I told him to fire them promptly if he had any brains." In an interview later, Sullivan told me the same thing.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
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