👀In August 2020, Trump’s Federal Reserve approved a $50M coronavirus relief loan to a PA casino owned by the children & grandchildren of Louis DeNaples who was chairman of the bank that made the loan. h/t @jacobadelman 1/
inquirer.com/business/main-…
2/ The loan recipient: “the Mount Airy Casino Resort, owned by trusts for DeNaples’ children and grandchildren. DeNaples had to relinquish his own ownership to resolve charges that he’d concealed his ties to organized crime.”
3/ As noted by @j2dumfounded, the coronavirus relief loan to the DeNaples PA casino (the Mount Airy casino) was much larger than other such loans at that time.
4/ The $50 million loan recipient: “the Mount Airy Casino Resort, owned by trusts for DeNaples’ children and grandchildren. DeNaples had to relinquish his own ownership to resolve charges that he’d concealed his ties to organized crime.” inquirer.com/business/main-…
5/ “‘This money was meant to help Main Street businesses, not casinos owned by families with alleged mafia connections,’ said Kyle Herrig, president of left-of-center watchdog group Accountable.US.”
6/ By early 08, Louis DeNaples “had been indicted on perjury charges, in part 4 allegedly lying about his relationships to mobsters including William D’Elia, a former leader of the crime family of…PA kingpin Russell Bufalino (played by Joe Pesci in the 2019 film The Irishman.)”
7/ The DeNaples casino (Mt. Airy) received the $50 million coronavirus relief loan in the week ending August 5, 2020, per Reuters. It appears from this article that the Federal Reserve had to approve the loan.
8/ Meanwhile, the IT guy for the DeNaples casino in PA (that received that $50 million loan) is the former IT guy for Trump Taj Mahal. h/t @myaltaccount
9/ The Mount Airy casino IT guy is on LinkedIn. He also did IT for Trump Entertainment Resorts. He moved to Mount Airy in January 2017, literally the start of the Trump administration.
10/ It seems Trump had his own issues with deleting emails. His IT guy (the guy who later moved to the DeNaples casino in PA) submitted an affidavit in the case. wtsp.com/article/news/n…
11/ Here is the part of the Inquirer article explaining that DeNaples is chairman of the bank that made the Federal Reserve backed loan to the DeNaples family casino.
12/ The loan might not have been possible but for Trump’s Federal Reserve & Treasury Department exempting the loan program from “longstanding rules barring banks from making taxpayer-funded loans to businesses owned by their directors.” 👀
13/ DeNaples owns Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Scranton, PA. whyy.org/articles/trash…
14/ In 2018, a bunch of voting machines were dumped at the DeNaples recycling plant in Scranton. h/t @TanyasTwit 👀
16/ More on DeNaples’ alleged ties to the Bufalino crime family.
17/ Even DeNaples’ priest had alleged ties to the late Russell Bufalino. h/t @j2dumfounded mcall.com/all-priestarre…
18/ @george_neumayr tried to interview Louis DeNaples a few years back.
19/ Speaking of Scranton and voting. This happened in October 2020. @SenBobCasey called it an attempt to sabotage the election. The PA GOP is headquartered in Scranton too. mcall.com/news/pennsylva…
20/ Remember that $50 million loan in late July or early August 2020? This may be a coincidence, but… 👇
21/ Trump was very concerned about PA. Remember when he asked for all of that detailed info about where PA’s voting machines were stored in October 2020? cumberlink.com/news/local/gov…
22/ Read. Ernie Preate is from Scranton too. His daughters effectively run the PA GOP. The Preates are tight with Steve Bannon. One is his press Secretary. newslanc.com/document/Preat…
23/ Ernie Preate is a convicted felon. He represents Frank Scavo who organized buses to the insurrection from PA and who listed incriminating messages to social media during it. Sourced thread. Again, the Preates are very close to Bannon. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1392208…
24/ I believe Bannon was arrested just before Trump’s PA visit. Will confirm tomorrow. I’ve got to sleep. nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyr…
25/ Yes, it was the same day. Bannon arrested 7:15am 8/20/2020 h/t @jagaiss nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyr…
26/ Trump spoke at 3 pm the same day. h/t @jagaiss poconorecord.com/story/news/pol…
27/ Huge shout out to @j2dumfounded who first alerted me to the loan and related issues in post 1.
28/
29/ Trump went out of his way to hinder oversight of coronavirus relief funds. h/t @jagaiss. I don’t know if this applies to or affected the Covid relief loan to the DeNaples casino or not. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
30/ Correction: The Lackawanna county (PA) GOP is located in Scranton, not the PA GOP.
31/ Biden ultimately beat Trump handily in the county.

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