Thread by @anthon7yandrews

I was researching Resort’s International and came across this three page document. Resorts was originally started as Mary Carter Paint Company, a CIA front in the 50s. It became central to mafia gambling rings around the country and internationally including the Bahamas and Cuba.

The document references this NYT article in 1976. "Bahama Gambling Group Considers Las Vegas-Type Casinos in Atlantic City”.
“links the Mary Carter
Paint Company to the gambling activities of the organized crime boss Meyer LANSKY”.

nytimes.com/1976/08/15/arc…

Intertel is the security company created by the Mary Carter Paint Company. Intertel was hired to investigate Robert Maheu and his ties to trying to get the mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro in the 60s for the CIA. Castro was anti- gambling and threatened the mob operation.

James Crosby, was a member of the original family that started Mary Carter Paint Company. He rebranded it as Resorts international in 1978 and opened paradise island in the Bahamas and the first casino in Atlantic City. Mayer Lansky was instrumental in the gambling operation.

Crosby died in 1986 & Resorts International was then controlled by none other than Donald Trump until 1988 when him and Merv Griffin disputed over control of the company. They settled with Trump taking control of the unfinished Taj Mahal Casino which had a budget of $250 million.

The original budget was blown out of the water when Trump took over and it cost nearly a billion dollars to build. Trump filed bankruptcy for the business in 1991 and sold off 49% of his shares and relinquished all power of operations as part of the deal. Bankrupt again in 2015.

Trump paid several fines related to money laundering at Taj Mahal and the casino was a known haven for Russians and other known mafia groups to congregate and do deals in. This is just one of many verified Trump mafia connections that have gone ignored.