By Robert O'Harrow Jr.:
Several days later, Trump called Sullivan at his home and asked him to come to New York immediately to help tamp down growing trouble at the Bonwit Teller site, court and FBI documents show. The Polish immigrant workers were now threatening to harm the Trump organization’s construction manager.
Sullivan rushed to Trump’s office and began looking into the problem. Scores of Polish men were getting paid only $4 per hour, far below union wages, and they were working seven days a week in 12-hour shifts, sometimes longer, court documents show.
The Polish immigrants were required to use jackhammers and wheelbarrows to take down the building by hand, in “almost a Stone Age fashion,” as Sullivan described it.
Sullivan testified during the lawsuit that he could not have been more direct with Trump about the implications of using illegal immigrants and flouting the union contract.
Sullivan testified that he had told Trump, “Don’t exploit them like that. . . . Don’t try to f--- these poor souls over.”
The Full Story (September 17, 2016)
[Editor's Note: See also an earlier mob piece]
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