Episode Notes

1. The 1973 DOJ Lawsuit Against Trump for Housing Discrimination

• United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. (Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse) https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342

• NPR - Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

• Politico - FBI releases files on 1970s race discrimination probe into Trump Management https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067

• Washington Post - Trump and the Central Park Five: the racial injustice that won’t die https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/20/trump-and-the-central-park-five-the-racial-injustice-that-wont-die

2. Trump Tower’s Mob-Connected Concrete Supply

• Politico - Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mob https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910

• Esquire - Fear City and the Real-Life Mafia Connections to Trump Tower https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33350476/fear-city-new-york-mafia-donald-trump-tower-mob-ties-explained

• New York Times - Trump and the Mob https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/campaign-stops/donald-trump-and-the-mob.html

• The Guardian - Trump’s connections to the mob go back decades https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/donald-trump-mafia-links-construction-new-york

3. Commodore Hotel and the Grand Hyatt Tax Abatement Scheme

• ProPublica - Trump Pushed for a Sweetheart Tax Deal on His First Hotel https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pushed-for-a-sweetheart-tax-deal-on-his-first-hotel-its-cost-new-york-city-410-068-399-and-counting

• NPR - As Trump Built His Real Estate Empire, Tax Breaks Played A Pivotal Role https://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528998663/as-trump-built-his-real-estate-empire-tax-breaks-played-a-pivotal-role

• New York Times Archive - Trump Sees Big Payoff in Hotel Deal https://www.nytimes.com/1980/08/14/archives/trump-sees-big-payoff-in-hotel-deal-trump-sees-big-payoff-in.html

• Wikipedia - Hyatt Grand Central New York (formerly Commodore Hotel)

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