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3 Ways Donald Trump Has Behaved Like a Sociopath Toward Workers (AlterNet)

There’s been a lot of focus on Trump’s controversial comments, but not his controversial labor record.

Everyone is talking about Donald Trump: supporters, critics and pundits. While many liberals laugh the celebrity’s presidential candidacy off as a joke, there are parts of Trump’s platform that are to the left of many establishment Democrats.

For instance, Trump is a critic of NAFTA and seems to be the only GOP candidate who doesn’t want to take a hatchet to Social Security. These facts don’t necessarily contradict his controversial comments about Mexicans or his fearmongering over China, as white racial anxieties have long been a staple of populist campaigns, on the left and on the right.

While Trump’s economic stances might be more complex than many let on, there has been very little discussion about the labor issues which have surrounded a number of his real estate projects. Here are the three most glaring Trump labor scandals.

1. Many of the workers constructing a Trump International Hotel in DC are undocumented.

Trump’s recent comments about how Mexicans crossing the border are often drug dealers and rapists have angered a number of the laborers working on a Trump hotel.

The Washington Post interviewed 15 people working on the $200 million hotel, and many admitted they had crossed the Mexican border. “It’s something ironic. The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally. And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”

“Do you think that when we’re hanging out there from the eighth floor that we’re raping or selling drugs?” Ramon Alvarez, a 48-year-old window worker from El Salvador told the Post. “We’re risking our lives and our health. A lot of the chemicals we deal with are toxic.”

The piece also quotes Ahmad Samadi, the 26-year-old site foreman who arrived in the US last year from Afghanistan. Most of the workers here are migrants,” said Samadi, “I don’t think it’s right, what he said. They’re hard workers.”

When CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked about his use of undocumented workers, Trump responded, “I can’t guarantee [I don’t use them]. How can anyone? You have anywhere from 11 to 34 million illegal immigrants. I used to hear 11, now I hear 34 million. I can’t guarantee anything. But I can say this: we work very hard to make sure that everybody is legal as opposed to illegal.”

2. Trump Tower was built by Polish immigrants who were paid $5/hour. A group of immigrant workers nicknamed the Polish Brigade knocked down the Bonwit Teller building so that Trump Tower could be constructed.

They claim that they were paid less than $5 an hour with no overtime and worked 12-hour shifts every day. Many were not paid for their work after the contractor went insolvent. “’We worked in horrid, terrible conditions,” a worker named Wojciech Kozak told the New York Times in 1998. ”We were frightened illegal immigrants and did not know enough about our rights.”

A lawsuit was filed against Trump in 1983, three years after Trump Tower was built, by Harry Diduck of the House Wreckers Union. The suit aimed to prove that Trump, his partner and the contractor had conspired to deprive local union workers out of pension and welfare contributions through the hiring of undocumented labor.

[In New York City, several of his buildings, including Trump Tower, were built by S&A Concrete, whose owners were “Fat” Tony Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Paul “Big Paul” Castellano, head of the Gambinos, another well-known crime family. Which also explains why Trump didn’t use steel construction.]

In addition to this business relationship, Trump and Salerno were both represented by high-power mobster attorney Roy Cohn.

In his 1992 book, “Trump, The Deals and the Downfall,” author Wayne Barrett cites an anonymous source who confirms that on at least one occasion Trump and Salerno had a sit-down in Cohn’s apartment.

Whenever Trump is questioned about his mafia ties at appearances, he will simply walk out without answering. For the most part, you could not build in Jew York City during that time without doing mob business, this is understandable.

Trump has always skirted the law, coming within a legal hair of breaking the law, and on occasion doing so. Trump was part of a 1979 bribery investigation and then a 1981 racketeering probe neither of which led to any kind of charges according to records.

None of the possible links between Donald Trump and the mob have ever been substantiated past their basic business ties by law enforcement or anyone else to date, which doesn’t prove that Trump wasn’t in deep, there just wasn’t enough evidence to prove it.

Trump knows how to keep his hands technically clean, and pays big money to his legal division headed by his super-Jew attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen was instrumental in the development of Trump Tower, Batumi, in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, no doubt through the agency of the Saphir Organization.

However, in his book, Barrett claims that Trump went out his way not to avoid but increase ties with organized crime influence in the New York and New Jersey construction industry in the 80’s and 90’s.]

During the trial workers testified that they had been threatened with deportation by Trump associates if they became a problem, and Trump admitted that he learned the workers were undocumented after the Bonwit Teller building was demolished. “I can make mistakes,” said Trump. “This was a mistake.”

The Polish Brigade’s lawyer said Trump was on the verge of hitting him with a $100 million lawsuit and he had received a mysterious call from someone referring to himself as “John Baron.” During the trial Trump admitted that he and one of his assistants sometimes used the John Baron pseudonym. “Lots of people use pen names,” he told a journalist. “Ernest Hemingway used one.”

Trump, his partner and the contractor were found guilty of partaking in a conspiracy. Trump appealed and a portion of the ruling was overturned. The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly wrote a comprehensive piece on the situation this July and summarized in his conclusion:

“The tower that is his crown jewel and symbol of [Trump’s] wealth continues to stand on ground cleared by 200 undocumented workers who labored off the books, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for no more than $5 an hour with no overtime.”

[And they worked on the hazardous demolition job site with no hard hats, either. Many Polish scab laborers were forced to sleep where ever they could at the job site itself because of a transit strike at the time.]

3. A worker fell to his death constructing Trump SoHo.

In 2008, while building a Trump hotel in lower Manhattan, a form that was used to pour concrete broke causing workers Yurly Vanchytsky and Francesco Palizzotto to fall 42 stories. Yanchytsky was killed and Palizzotto fell into a net, but suffered a brain injury and was unable to work again.

When questioned about the incident, Trump claimed he had no connection to the project beyond the fact he licensed his name for it.

This year, the New York Daily News reported that Trump’s involvement was potentially much deeper. The firm that was used for construction, Difama Concrete, had a history of serious OSHA violations and had racked up thousands of dollars in fines for its work in the city.

In 2004 a Difama worker had fallen to his death working on a project at 53rd Street. Trump’s hotel was being built by a developer called the Sapir Organization in partnership with Trump. Although Trump denied any direct involvement in the construction, an official at Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor hired to build the hotel, says Trump personally reviewed the contracts.

The New York Daily News obtained the information from the deposition of Jan Sokolowski, who was then Bovis’ general superintendent on the SoHo project. The deposition was taken from one of the lawsuits filed after the fatal accident. In reference to the meetings with Difama, Sokolowski said, “I was not part of those meetings, but I do know that Donald did review the contracts.”

Michael Arria is an associate editor at AlterNet and the author of Medium Blue: The Politics of MSNBC.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/3-ways-donald-trump-has-behaved-sociopath-toward-workers

Notes: Sapir Organization is run by the Sapir family, another New York real estate billionaire family.

The late Tamir Shapir (born Temur Sepiashvili), founder of the company, was a Georgian Jew. He, his wife and his mother had emigrated to Israel in 1973, around the time of the Yom Kippur War. Sapir (he changed his last name in Israel) moved to the United States.

He spoke no English and became a taxicab driver in New York City. Saving up to buy an electronics store, he catered primarily to Russian clientele. Eventually he made contacts with the Soviet contingent to the United Nations in New York, and traded electronics for oil contracts, which he then sold to American companies.

Investing the profits in Manhattan real estate in the 1990s, he became a billionaire by 2002. Sapir has been referred to as America’s “billionaire cabbie”. He was a member of the prestigious Orthodox Jewish Park East Synagogue (Congregation Zichron Ephraim).

Michael Cohen, prominent in Jew York high society, was instrumental in the development of Trump Tower, Batumi, in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, probably through the Sapir Organization. Cohen currently serves on six (6) Trump Property Boards for Trump and his kids.

The old Italian mafia families are still around, but long diminished in power, thanks to organized crime investigations and prosecutions that stuck. The Jewish American mobster families began “turning legit” after WWII, and with a better veneer of respectability after the kids went to college, becoming part of the New York socialite scene.

What moved in to the vacuum? “Russian” organized crime, such as the ex-Soviet Russian Jewish organized crime which got it’s start among the Russian Israeli Jews who emigrated to Israel as well as Soviet Jews who emigrated to Jew York. The most organized is the the Odessa Mafia out of Former Soviet Ukraine, considered the dominant “Russian” organized crime group in the United States.

This group established itself in the Brighton Beach area of New York City between 1975 to 1981.

In the early 1980s the Odessa Mafia sent two sub-groups to San Francisco and Los Angeles with their leadership remaining in Brighton Beach.

And, Israeli mobsters moved in, too. There are around 16 crime families in the country who make money through extortion, gambling, prostitution and drug trafficking – all staples of international organized crime in the 21st century.

Notes from Wiki:

In the 1980s Israelis set up a crime syndicate headed by Johnny Attias in New York, dubbed the “Israeli mafia”.

It pulled off the biggest gold heist in the history of Manhattan’s jewelry district, getting away with over $4 million in gold jewelry.

Attias was murdered in January 1990, and New York’s Israeli mafia fell apart soon after. Several members among them Ron Gonen had turned informant and the authorities arrested the rest of the gang in September of that year.

Israeli crime organizations such as the Abergil crime family and Zeev Rosenstein are heavily involved in ecstasy trafficking in the United States.

In a statement before Congress in 2000, officials with the U.S. Customs Service noted that “Israeli organized-crime elements appear to be in control” of the multi-billion-dollar U.S. ecstasy trade, “from production through the international smuggling phase”.

The main drug supplier of former Gambino crime family underboss Sammy Gravano in his Arizona drug ring was New York based Israeli mobster Ilan Zarger, who allegedly distributed more than one million ecstasy pills from May 1999 to May 2000 with a wholesale value of $7 million.

He pleaded guilty to charges of running a drug gang that flooded Arizona and New York with almost four million ecstasy pills over three years.

Another Israeli, Oded Tuito, said to head one of the largest ecstasy-smuggling organization, which imported millions of ecstasy pills from Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt into New York, Miami and Los Angeles, was arrested in May 2001.

In 2006 Zeev Rosenstein was extradited to the U.S., after being arrested in Israel. He pleaded guilty before a federal court in Florida to charges that he distributed ecstasy pills and was sentenced to 12 years in prison which he serves in Israel.

In January 2011, Itzhak (Itzik) Abergil and Meir Abergil and three other suspects were extradited to the U.S.

They are facing a 77-page, 32-count federal indictment that alleges murder, massive embezzlement, money laundering, racketeering and running a large Los Angeles-based ecstasy ring.

The trial was set for November 8, 2011 in the Los Angeles Federal District Court.

Trump is so cozy with New Jersey/New York Jewry, and 100% pro-Israel, I seriously believe that he has some kind of ties with the Israeli underworld, both here and in Israel, (once and probably still is, the money-laundering capital of the world) because that is just the way he does business.