Trump, “Fat Tony” Salerno, Nicky Scarfo Inc., and the Concrete Business Mafia infiltration into the concrete business has a massively long history in New York, Atlantic City, and Florida. Trump has done business in all three of these East Coast cities! One indicator of mafia controlled concrete businesses is sub-standard material used in construction resulting in building collapse. Trump worked with unions and companies known to be controlled by mafia families during the 1980s. In New York official corruption is a way of life and developers would give large contributions to public officials to get favored treatment for contracts. New York State Organized Crime Task Force found that Trump gave some $330,000 in today’s money to politicians by spreading his payments among eighteen companies controlled by his organization. One such mafia controlled company was S&A Concrete, which supplied building material to the Trump Plaza on Manhattan’s East Side, owned by none other than “Fat Tony” Salerno of the Genovese mafia family, and Paul Castellano of the Gambino family. Get that? Trump, Salerno, Castellano, and, later the worst of the worst Nicky Scarfo of Atlantic City: the mere mentioning of Scarfo’s name would cause harden mafia soldiers to quiver in fear. Everyone in the New York concrete construction and law enforcement knew the mafia controlled the “ready-mix” concrete business, and the unions that did the work pouring! And Trump was a close friend to mob lawyer Roy Cohn. The general contractor of Trump Plaza, Irving Fischer, reported that the mafia sent union “goons” to his office who then held a knife to his throat demanding paid “no-show” ghost employees. Trump was over charged again and again in building the Trump Plaza. (see source: Trump swam in mob-infested waters in early years as an NYC developer and Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?). And so this brings us to the 1981 constructed Surfside Florida concrete building collapse, or more generally, the unregulated concrete construction business in the state of Florida. Could some builders not be afraid of breaking building codes and use faulty materials, or wrong materials, or no materials in poorly constructed apartment buildings? For example, one method of saving money would be to use cheap concrete mixes with salt-water soaked sand removed from digging out the below ground parking garage? How long could a building made of rebar, sand and salt stand? There was one unethical builder in Atlantic City named Nicodemo Scarfo who poured nearly all the concrete for the new Atlantic City Casinos because of the soft ocean side soil. Scarfo got into the concrete business by murdering another concrete business owner after he refused to give Scarfo control of his business. Scarfo was possibility the most violent mafia figure in American history. If you like to watch mafia violence….watch this: Mobsters: Nicodemo Scarfo - Full Episode (S1, E2 | A&E
More of Florida real-estate corruption. During the pre-2008 national real-estate subprime mortagage loan crash Florida had 120,000 home loan originators who could get money for popular get-rich "house flipping," but only 60,000 were officially registered loan officials. The American taxpayer had to paid off all those bad loans for a total of $29 trillion dollars eventually going to the Wall Street Socialists.
I think the State of Florida is a criminal organization. Law enforcement knows Florida condos need upgrades — but have let them dodge requirements for years: report Florida tower was likely doomed from the start by sketchy building team: engineering expert. Here is an excerpt from the article that shows how bad the corruption is in the construction business. We see the same kind of building collapse in China. "....Alfred Weisbrod, whose career was marked by complaints of "negligence," "incompetency or misconduct," was the second of three general contractors to oversee the construction, which took place between November 1979 and October 1980...Weisbrod, who is now deceased, was fined three times and threatened with suspension during the 1980s and early 1990s, and eventually surrendered his general contractor license in 1998 to avoid further trouble for various allegations, including mismanagement, incompetence and fraud....The developer was sued dozens of times between 1981 and 2000, with judgments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he spent much of those years in financial distress and racked up tax debts of nearly $400,000 by the mid-1980s."
Total coverup of the systemic corruption in Florida's construction businesses. This 60 minutes video report spent less than ten minutes on the Surfside collapse with no substantial information: the building fell, people died and lost money--a narrative that ignores systematic East coast mafia activities for decades presented as a story on making bad real estate investments. The investigation into the collapse is being slow walked to coverup the condo's history as the mafia cleans up the evidence. That's it. A disturbingly dishonest report from a major news network. Surfside: More questions than answers a year after condominium collapse | 60 Minutes
