Wayne Barrett

“In a city where the death penalty has been perhaps the most con­troversial public issue for a decade, cop bullets killed 39 people last year. Two hundred have died this way since Ed Koch became mayor in 1978”

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Meet the Medicaid cheats, coke dealers, mobsters — and those who may have gotten a touch too friendly with mobsters — who call Trump Tower home

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The frightening portrait of the mayor who excludes and targets blacks

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A letter from Roy Cohn’s firm indicating that “the Trump Organization has validated the status” of the Hopkins purchase helped push the bank to approve the dubious deal.

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How Donald Trump sacked the Cuomo team and turned the state’s losses — including two football teams and hopes for a new stadium — into personal gain

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Trump surrounded himself with the governor’s lawyers, aides, son — even his bodyguard — to get New York’s top pol on his side

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How city and state officials, real estate operators, lawyers, and bankers came together in a multimillion-dollar deal to rebuild the Commodore Hotel, largely at public expense

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“In the end, Trump got his land, investing nothing but his time and effort, and squeezing every ounce of potential profit out of the deal.”

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When Donald Trump dumped on Ed Koch, he doomed his own greatest project. In this tale of two egos, Trump makes the biggest mistake of his career and hastens his demise.

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