Trump's Downtown NYC Office Tower: A 'House Of Fraud' For Thieves, Boiler Room Rackets & Penny Stock Schemers???

In New York City, The Real Deal (New York) reports:

• At a presidential primary rally in Maine earlier this year, Donald Trump said that those who have mocked his failed businesses “don’t want to talk about 40 Wall Street.” The 72-story Financial District office tower is home to “many of the top-notch businesses in the world,” the presumptive Republican nominee has said.
  
  A Bloomberg report [recently] told a different story. The news outlet reported that ever since Trump took control of the building in 1995, it has housed “frauds, thieves, boiler rooms and penny-stock schemers.”(1)
  
  “[N]o U.S. address has been home to more of the unregistered brokerages that investors complain about, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current public alert list,” said the Bloomberg article. The building is said to be the most valuable in Trump’s real estate portfolio.
  
  According to Bloomberg, there are more than two dozen alleged and confirmed schemes, scams and examples of regulatory malfeasance tied to the building. Among them is New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s case against Trump University, which was headquartered on the building’s 32nd floor before it shuttered.
  
  The building also housed the offices of real estate lawyer Luigi Rosabianca, who is facing up to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to grand larceny.
  
  The average rent at the building is $36 per square foot, roughly $20 less than the average asking price in the area, the news outlet said.
  
  In response, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. said asking prices at 40 Wall Street exceeded that of comparable Downtown buildings, but he did not specify what the comps were.
  
  “40 Wall’s average annual rent continues to achieve a record of immense success with 97 percent occupancy, a vacancy rate virtually unheard of in Downtown Manhattan,” he wrote.

Source: Trump’s 40 Wall Street is full of “frauds, thieves and … schemers”: report (A look at office tower's history of tenants with sketchy rap sheets).

For a video, see The crooked tenants of Trump's 40 Wall Street.

For the Bloomberg story, see Inside Trump’s Most Valuable Tower: Felons, Dictators and Girl Scouts.

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(1) Among the rackets (as was reported in an earlier post), both alleged and confirmed, that have used The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street in downtown New York City as a mailing address was an upstate New York real estate operator who is suspected to have used forged deeds to hijack title to real estate in a racket police believe could involve as many as 80 foreclosed properties in seven Capital Region and Hudson Valley counties. See Albany Times Union: State Police probe fake deed scheme.