To demonize the guy for knowingly or unknowingly buying real estate from a connected guy isn't really news. Likewise with building skyscrapers in NYC. Trump never sought out the mafia for anything in reality. He greased the wheels when they needed to be greased so as not to halt business/construction but from what I understand he hardly had any "connection". He bought property from Salvie Testa (and dozens of other legitimate civilian citizens) on the AC boardwalk to build his resort, he paid the concrete tax like anyone else in NY at the time the concrete club was active. I'm not at all a supporter of the guy and he certainly isn't getting my vote but in reality he's just a businessman.