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Trump maintained a connection with organized crime members to supply the building’s concrete. In March 2017, Trump wrote several posts on Twitter claiming former president Barack Obama had wiretapped phones in the tower toward the end of the 2016 campaign. Barrett questioned some of Trump’s business dealings in a Daily Beast article in 2011, and alleged that concrete was one of “several dozen” suspected mob connections Trump had. Mafia-connected union boss John Cody supplied Trump with concrete in exchange for giving his mistress a high-level apartment with a pool, which required extra structural reinforcement. House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee that discussed the issue, FBI Director James Comey informed the committee that there was no evidence of wiretapping in the tower.

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