Thread by @Monte_Alto

@sdr_medco Early 1980's ... arrogant, ignorant and full of shit.

@sdr_medco 1980: Trump demolishes 2 historic sculptures to keep the construction of Trump Tower on schedule. Metropolitan Museum of Art was stunned.

@sdr_medco No respect for anyone or anything.

@sdr_medco The London Review of Books cites John Barron, identified as a Trump PR rep, telling The New York Times that the artifacts’ preservation would have cost more than $500,000. The LRB says the same publicity man called himself ‘Donald Baron’ to the Associated Press.

@sdr_medco Within days, another PR release admitted that preservation costs were actually estimated at $32,000. And in time John Barron and Donald Baron were identified as Donald Trump himself.

He was a liar back then, he's a liar now and he will always be a liar.

@sdr_medco The Polish Brigade.
These workers were identifiable at the site as being without hardhats, gloves or other safety gear. Kazimierz “Mike” Sosnowski, one of them with a green card, was quoted as saying, “Week after week, no check.”

@sdr_medco In the summer of 1980, Trump fired the Polish Brigade, “meaning they were deprived of wages and benefits,” “The U.S. Labor Department filed suit against him, a federal judge found him guilty of fraud,

@sdr_medco noting that his testimony was not credible, and eventually he paid a fine in a sealed agreement.”
According to the NBC News item, the Labor Department sued Trump’s contractor for wage and hour violations. In 1984, the federal court hit him with a $570,000 judgment.

@sdr_medco At the same time, dissident union members sued Trump and the contractor over the bilked pension fund. “The suit became one of the longest in the history of the federal court in the Southern District of New York.

Trump likes going to court & drags the cases out forever.

@sdr_medco MORE TRUMPERY: Apr 8 2010 Today, as the Trump Organization is trumpeting the opening of the long-delayed & controversial Trump SoHo condo-hotel on April 9, it is uncharacteristically quiet about what happened to the remains of the dead that were disturbed during its construction.

@sdr_medco In 2006, during excavation, construction workers unearthed human remains buried in a 19th-century cemetery that was part of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church that stood on the spot for over two centuries until burning down in 1963.

@sdr_medco So, what did Trump do with the bones?

After four years, Trump still had not revealed what happened to the remains, despite the good will he would engender by respecting and interring the bones properly, in accordance with his initial promises.

@sdr_medco Trump needs all the good will he can generate to counter the fierce community opposition to his project by the SoHo Alliance as well as other neighborhood groups and preservation societies.

@sdr_medco Well, the SoHo Alliance has obtained a private report on how Trump handled the remains of the dead.

Instead of respecting and burying them properly, they were shipped up to Utica University to be processed and examined in a school laboratory.

No respect for anything or anyone.

@sdr_medco Here's the article relating to the human remains uncovered at Trump SoHo

ny.curbed.com/2010/4/8/10516…