Robert Libutti News Today

Robert labuti who had a history of fraud and had ties to new york mob boss john gotti. he told the philadelphia inquirer i heard hes a high roller but if hes standing in front of me i wouldnt know what he looked like. today yahoo! news appeared to show trump standing next to him in 1998. he can be seen sitting next to the three-hour event in a front row seat next to trump and his then-wife evivana. when mike isikoff reported that he had a longtime relationship trump said during the year i very s...

Daughter, made it clear this wasnt by happenstance. he was -- he and edie were the invited guests of donald trump, she told me. so all that sort of when you put it all together, its pretty clear theres a relationship there. and on top of that its worth remembering that bob libutti was the biggest customer at the trump plaza casino, gambled millions of dollars. and also caused the casino quite a bit of problems. >> you know, david, you reported for years about this sort of element of trumps life ...

Those entities may have certain conflicts, they may have certain interests, there may be debts that are owed to people, they might be in league with unsavory folks, kurt eichenwald has documented that. we all knew nothing. its a black box as we step towards what could be the entirely unprecedented situation of the president of the united states operating the family business essentially out of the white house. michael? >> yeah, well, a couple things. first of all, i think theres two sort of takea...

Street journal" reported that according to state documents his gambling losses earned trump plaza $11 million. trumps casino in atlantic city sought to accommodate him by keeping the employees away from his betting tables. the casino was fined $200,000 in 1991 for preventing especially black employees from getting near libutti was he was gambling. he had on multiple occasions berated blacks and using the vilest language, that the trump plaza in order not to lose substantial business sought to ac...

Implausible once you read all the reporting you put together and look at the photo. >> right. not only that, but i did talk to robert libuttis daughter for the original piece we did back in march and was quite upset. called donald trump a liar. when i told her that he was saying that he didnt know her father. she said thats ridiculous. we spent lots of time together. my father did. flew on his helicopter. partied on his yacht. they knew each other quite well. so -- and when you got to this story...

He was an soeshassociate of peo. he was a swindler in the horse races. his daughter would tell you he was a smart businessman. he was donalds customer. take donald at his word. he didnt know his biggest customer? thats certainly an indictment. i spent a lot of time with bob back then. and he told lots of stories. donald trump actually had a professionally made video for bobs daughter edie for her 35th birthday and gave her a cream-colored mercedes convertible as part of a ploy to try and seduce ...

Put it, just to be clear. libutti certainly used the most vicious, vile language and everybody around him when he was losing a the tabe ining at the . but bob libutti thought it was awful that they should have to listen to this stuff. but he told me what kind of a person would remove these people because of what i said? i didnt ask them to be removed. trumps a racist. >> that seems like a distinction than a difference. >> thats the reason they were fined because the hotel did remove them. >> tha...

The trump organization. there is that pattern as well as many of the women who have made accusations against him. the sort of just flippant, i dont know him. i dont know who youre talking about. but secondly, just getting back to the core issues in the -- when i said before libutti had caused problems for trump plaza, one of those was the case involving discrimination, violation of new jersey civil rights laws where the casino was accommodating a guy who demanded that african-americans and women...