fraud broke any laws. The buyers who made the allegations had been assisting this investigation, now closed, until required by the settlement to stop.

Trump SoHo was marketed to potential overseas investors, but the project was poorly timed, completed as the real-estate bubble was bursting in 2007 and the economy was sinking into recession. At the beginning of 2009, only 15 to 30 percent of the units had been sold, despite Ivanka’s and Donald Jr.’s efforts to inflate the number in interviews.

Trump has tried to distance himself from Sater since the latter’s criminal background was reported by the Times in December of 2007.

Mafia ties, overseas investment, fraud, criminal investigation, national-security matters, spectacular financial loss, using his own children to improve publicity, an ugly building, and utter lack of businessSan Francisco, California, on 29 March 1943, Lieutenant Commander Edward M. Benton, USCGR, in command.

Service history
Assigned to the Naval Transport Service, the cargo ship conducted shakedown training in San Francisco Bay before getting underway on 9 April 1943, for a cargo run to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship arrived back at San Francisco on 5 May and operated along the west coast through late August, towing barges and delivering cargo to Seattle, Washington; Eureka and San Francisco, California; and Astoria, Oregon. Albireo departed San Francisco on 26 August in a convoy bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and Wellington, New Zealand; arrived back at San Francisco on 20 November; discharged her cargo at Oakland, California; and entered the United Engineering Co. shipyard for repairs.

The ship got underway for