Joseph
Weichselbaum
FREE NEWS LINKS
HOME
SEARCH
Updates & changes ongoing ....
----
Although this site is https-secure, we cannot guarantee that it or any
provided links are safe; be sure your antivirus and other security systems are
up to date.
Also see:
Mafia; drugs;
Jump to: 2019;
-- 2016 --
May: ... there was the case of Joseph
Weichselbaum, an embezzler who ran Trump’s personal helicopter service and
ferried his most valued clientele.
Trump and Weichselbaum were so close ... that Weichselbaum told his parole
officer about how he knew Trump was hiding his mistress, Marla Maples, from his
first wife, Ivana, and tried to persuade Trump to end their years-long affair.
Trump’s casinos retained Weichselbaum’s firm to fly high rollers to Atlantic
City. Weichselbaum was indicted in Ohio on charges of trafficking in marijuana
and cocaine. The head of one of Trump’s casinos was notified of the indictment
in October 1985, but Trump continued using Weichselbaum—conduct that again could
have cost Trump his casino license had state regulators pressed the matter,
because casino owners were required to distance themselves from any hint of
crime. Just two months later Trump rented an apartment he owned in the Trump
Plaza apartment building in Manhattan to the pilot and his brother for $7,000 a
month in cash and flight services. Trump also continued paying Weichselbaum’s
firm even after it went bankrupt.
Weichselbaum, who in 1979 had been caught embezzling and had to repay the stolen
money, pleaded guilty to two felonies.
Donald Trump vouched for Weichselbaum before his sentencing, writing that the
drug trafficker is “a credit to the community” who was “conscientious,
forthright, and diligent.” And while Weichselbaum’s confederates got as many as
20 years, Weichselbaum himself got only three, serving 18 months before he was
released from the urban prison that the Bureau of Prisons maintains in New York
City. In seeking early release, Weichselbaum said Trump had a job waiting for
him.
Weichselbaum then moved into Trump Tower, his girlfriend having recently bought
two adjoining apartments there for $2.4 million. The cash purchase left no
public record of whether any money actually changed hands or, if it did, where
it came from.
As a casino owner, Trump could have lost his license for associating with
Weichselbaum. Trump has never been known to use drugs or even drink. What
motivated him to risk his valuable license by standing up for a drug trafficker
remains unclear to this day.
Trump ... said he “hardly knew” Weichselbaum.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
October 19: Unanswered
Questions ... The Drug Trafficker Donald Trump Risked His Casino Empire to
Protect
With Donald Trump calling on Hillary Clinton to take a drug test before their
third debate Wednesday evening, it’s the perfect time to bring up one of the
biggest campaign issues that major news organizations have avoided: His long,
deep, and strange involvement with a major cocaine and marijuana trafficker.
Trump presents himself as the most ardent law-and-order politician ever. Yet
throughout his adult life Trump sought out—and worked closely with—more than a
score of criminals, including Mafia associates, Russian mob associates, violent
felons, con artists, swindlers, and most significant of all, the embezzler and
mob associate Joseph Weichselbaum, a thrice-convicted felon.
Long ago,
when Trump was the big man in Atlantic City, he got his helicopters to bring
his high-rollers in and out of town through a company formed by Weichselbaum, to
whom he also entrusted maintenance of the Ivana, Trump’s personal helicopter.
Spy, a satirical magazine that often made fun of Trump, reported that
Weichselbaum—at that point a twice-convicted felon—personally piloted the Trumps
in that copter.
Weichselbaum also had another business: importing drugs from Colombia and
shipping them from Bradford Motors, a Miami-area car dealership he partly owned,
to Cincinnati.
When Weichselbaum got caught, his case was handled in a most unusual way, with
both Donald Trump and one of his siblings in starring roles.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-trafficker-donald-trump-risked-his-casino-empire-to-protect
-- 2019 --
February 26: We Asked Actual Mafia Experts
If Trump Is Really Acting Like a 'Mob Boss'
Comparing the president to a Mafia leader is almost a cliché at this point. Is
it just a joke, or something more?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xymjz/we-asked-actual-mafia-experts-if-trump-is-really-acting-like-a-mob-boss
Webpage visitor counts provided
by
copyr 2018 trump-news-history.com, Minneapolis, MN