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Trump Gushed About Teamsters... Who ‘Walked All Over Him’

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A mob-linked labor racketeer headed the union local that built Trump Tower.

Michael Daly

Special Correspondent

Updated Aug. 14, 2019 7:37PM ET / Published Aug. 14, 2019 2:13PM ET 
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Mafia-linked labor racketeer John Cody must have been making a few more rollicking rolls in his grave on Tuesday.

Cody was head of Teamsters Local 282 back in the '80s when Donald Trump was building the Fifth Avenue tower he named after himself.

Thanks to Cody, Trump Tower was the only construction site in New York that remained open when the Teamsters mounted a citywide strike.

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