"In 1984... David Bogatin... former pilot in the ... specialty... shooting down Americans over ... plunked... $6 million to buy... five [Trump Tower] luxury condos. ...According to ... Trump personally attended the closing... Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate... an ideal vehicle to launder money..."
— Craig Unger

January 1, 1970

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Background Ref: 1) Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: the Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention by (2016) p. 194. 2) Donald Trump’s Tower of Trouble Meet the Medicaid cheats, coke dealers, mobsters — and those who may have gotten a touch too friendly with mobsters — who call Trump Tower home by (Dec 17, 1991) ' 3) Wayne Barrett: How Donald Trump Managed To Turn Triumph Into Disaster When Donald Trump dumped on Ed Koch, he doomed his own greatest project. In this tale of two egos, Trump makes the