Just how mobbed up is Donald Trump?

From the public record and published accounts…, it’s possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Drumpf’s career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Drumpf retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.

Now that he’s running for president, I pulled together what’s known - piecing together the long history of federal filings, court records, biographical anecdotes, and research from my and Barrett’s files. What emerges is a pattern of business dealings with mob figures—not only local figures, but even the son of a reputed Russian mob boss whom Drumpf had at his side at a gala Drumpf hotel opening, but has since claimed under oath he barely knows.

Neither Drumpf’s campaign spokesperson, Hope Hicks, nor Jason Greenblatt, the executive vice president and chief legal officer at the Drumpf Organization, responded to several emailed requests for comment on the issues raised in this article.

Is he sure he wants to run an aggressively negative campaign? Plenty of negative ad fodder in this article. He should be careful what he wishes for.