Mob Hitman Was Character Witness for Trump
Donald Trump posted an old interview of one-time mobster turned rat, Salvatore Gravano, aka “Sammy the Bull,” lamenting how he could not do business with the former President of the United States, all the while appearing to praise the one-time hitman.
"Forget about Trump," the Bull said during that interview, "he's a legitimate guy."
The implication here being that Trump would not do business with mobsters or individuals of ill repute.
“I hope Judges Engoron and Kaplan see this,” Trump wrote on his Trust Social media platform, naming the justices presiding over two of Trump’s ongoing lawsuits. “We need fairness, strength and honesty in our New York Courts. We don’t have it now!”
Those judges he referred to are Judge Arthur Engoron, who presides over Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York, and Judge Lewis Kaplan, who will preside over his defamation trial against the writer E. Jean Carroll, which begins next week.
"I tried a couple times to press him and make arrangements where I could work with him and I did that with other big contractors. I had the power of the unions...But I couldn't get to him. He wouldn't bite. He just wouldn't bite. He didn't wanna do anything like that," Gravano said.
"Sammy the Bull" was an underboss for the Gambino crime family in New York City and worked with the United States government as an informant to take down mob boss John Gotti in the early 1990s. The Gambino crime family was said to have been involved in labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud and even hijacking.
Gravano confessed to his involvement in 19 murders and was released from prison in 2017 after being sentenced to 20 years for running an ecstasy ring in Arizona. Feds say he even once plotted to murder his son's girlfriends.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
