Report: First Trump Licensing Deal Was With Mob Figure
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The Smoking Gun reports that The Donald’s first licencing deal was for a branded Cadillac built by a mob-controlled company.
The Trump limos offered Italian leather upholstery, wool carpeting, a TV and VCR, a fax machine, a paper shredder, and pop-out writing desks. A cabinet even contained stemware and a Perm-a-Pub push-button liquor dispenser. The stereo system was a Blaupunkt, the two cell phones were from NEC, and the Golden Series model had gold-plated Vogue tires.
And as for the hood ornament, he was a product of the Colombo organized crime family.
The Trump limousines were built by Dillinger Coach Works, a New York firm run by partners John Staluppi and Jack Schwartz. The men were auto industry veterans and each was a convicted felon at the time of the Trump unveiling. Staluppi’s rap sheet included an early-70s conviction for stealing auto parts, while in 1976 a federal jury found Schwartz guilty of extortion. At Dillinger–which was named after the Depression-era gangster–Staluppi oversaw production, while Schwartz headed sales.
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