Former Trump executive had a penchant for theft
By Jerry Useem GLOBE CORRESPONDENT SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
In March 2000, shortly after announcing he would not run for president that year, Donald Trump dispatched one of his top real estate executives to South Korea on an important business errand.
The executive, Abraham Wallach, was used to this sort of thing. It was Wallach and Trump who flew to Hong Kong in 1994 for a crucial dinner with billionaire Vincent Lo to secure financing for a project that Trump, in a published report, called “the biggest [expletive] deal in the history of New York real estate.” And it was Wallach whom Trump sent to Japan in 1994 to gather intelligence and help Trump battle for control of the Empire State Building.
In Seoul, Wallach said, he was going to meet with Daewoo, the Korean conglomerate that was funding construction of the New York skyscraper known as Trump World Tower. Just days before that flight, though, Wallach went off on an errand of his own, walking out of a Nordstrom store in White Plains, N.Y., with two crystal vases purchased with a credit card bearing the name “Anthony Greto.”
And two months after the scheduled trip to Seoul, Wallach returned to the same Nordstrom with a different stolen credit card. He picked out a $600 Salvatore Ferragamo handbag and — this time with a store security officer watching — signed the name “Meg Osman.”
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