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Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, owned and lived in a condo on 43rd floor of Trump Tower.
Currently in prison for money-laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, witness tampering and conspiracy against the United States.
Helly Nahmad. Owns the entire 51st floor of Trump Tower.
Pleaded guilty and received 12-month prison sentence in 2014 for operating an illegal, multi-million $ gambling business out of Trump Tower. Case tied to notorious Russian mafia "boss of all bosses" Semion Mogilevich
Vadim Trincher, former condo owner on 63rd floor of Trump Tower. Mastermind of Trump Tower gambling ring with Nahmad. 5 years in federal prison and $20 million in asset forfeiture for racketeering.
Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Haitian dictator, tied to death and torture of thousands of its citizens. Arrested upon return from exile and charged with embezzlement and human rights abuse.
Owned a condo at Trump Tower valued at $2.5 million.
Felix Sater. Worked in an office out of the 24th floor of Trump Tower and a Trump Org employee. Lead negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow and Trump Soho.
15 months in prison for stabbing a man with a margarita glass. Also convicted in $40 million stock trading scheme.
Michael Cohen. Trump's personal attorney, former Trump Org employee at Trump Tower and resident of Trump World Tower.
Currently in prison for tax evasion, bank fraud, lying to investigators and campaign finance violations tied to illegal hush money payments at direction of Trump
Joseph Weichselbaum. Trump's personal chopper pilot in the 1980s. Upgraded from 32nd floor Trump Tower apartment to adjoining 49th floor condos while he was serving federal sentence for smuggling cocaine out of Colombia via Miami.
The condos were paid for with all cash.
Vyacheslav Ivankov. Top Russian mafia boss and associate of Semion Mogilevich. Hid out in Trump Tower and was high-roller at Trump Taj Mahal even while subject of a worldwide FBI manhunt. 9-year prison sentence for racketeering. Shot dead in 2009 outside Moscow restaurant.
Anatoly Golubchik and Michael Sall. Co-conspirators in the Trincher Trump Tower Gambling Ring. Golubchik was described as an enforcer for the group, collecting debts with threat of violence.
Both Golubchik and Sall forfeited their Trump Tower condos as criminal assets.
Steven Hoffenberg. Leased office space on the 15th floor of Trump Tower mere months after the SEC sued him for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in American history until the Madoff scandal.
Served 16 years of a 20 year sentence for bilking $475 million from investors.
Ernest Garcia II, billionaire and owner of Drivetime. Huge stakeholder in those hellishly dystopian 'car vending machines' you see advertised. Owns an apartment in Trump Tower.
In 1990 pleaded guilty to a $30 million bank fraud scheme tied to the Keating 5 Savings & Loan scandal
Melvin Cooper. Convicted of helping mastermind a violent loan shark scheme for the Colombo and Gambino crime families in 1985. After getting out of prison he purchased a Trump Tower condo and later bought a second.
Apparently rather disliked by his neighbors.
Sheldon Weinberg. Paid $180,000 a year in rent for his Trump Tower condo at the same time he was pulling in $30,000 a week from Medicare fraud.
Sheldon disappeared in 1989 but was caught after the case was featured on 'Unsolved Mysteries.' Served 16 years.
Jose Maria Marin. Former governor of Sao Paolo and President of the Brazilian Football League. Found guilty of seven counts of money laundering and wire fraud as part of the 2015 FIFA scandal. Currently in prison.
Spent his house arrest pending trial at his condo in Trump Tower.
Chuck Blazer, FIFA executive committee. Pleaded guilty as part of the same scandal. Racketeering, wire fraud, tax evasion, money laundering. Died before sentencing.
Two luxury apartments in Trump Tower. One for himself and one exclusively for his cats.
David Bogatin. One of Trump Tower's earliest tenants, purchased five condos for $6 million in 1984 in a deal that Trump personally closed.
Later extradited from Poland after fleeing indictment in a Russian mob gas smuggling scheme. 7 year prison sentence.
Fun fact about Bogatin: He was also a Red Army vet who reportedly spent some time in North Vietnam advising the locals how to shoot down US planes.
Robert Hopkins. Trump personally appeared at closing on his $1.7 million condo that included $200k in cash that Trump counted himself.
Arrested on murder charges and convicted of running a $500,000 a week numbers racket for the Lucchese crime family.
Lin Gosman (wife of Healthcare magnate AbeGosman) guilty of Fraud, owned a Trump Plaza Condo —Also owned the house that Trump bought in Foreclosure then flipped to a RussianMobster.
Those are the people caught and convicted..........
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