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1. The 1973 DOJ Lawsuit Against Trump for Housing Discrimination
United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. (Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse)
https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342
NPR - Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case
Politico - FBI releases files on 1970s race discrimination probe into Trump Management
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067
Washington Post - Trump and the Central Park Five: the racial injustice that won’t die
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/20/trump-and-the-central-park-five-the-racial-injustice-that-wont-die
2. Trump Tower’s Mob-Connected Concrete Supply
Politico - Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mob
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
Esquire - Fear City and the Real-Life Mafia Connections to Trump Tower
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33350476/fear-city-new-york-mafia-donald-trump-tower-mob-ties-explained
New York Times - Trump and the Mob
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/campaign-stops/donald-trump-and-the-mob.html
The Guardian - Trump’s connections to the mob go back decades
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/donald-trump-mafia-links-construction-new-york
3. Commodore Hotel and the Grand Hyatt Tax Abatement Scheme
ProPublica - Trump Pushed for a Sweetheart Tax Deal on His First Hotel