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More than 40 years later, Fuller, who gained fame for the FBI bribery sting dramatized in the movie American Hustle, chuckles ruefully about the encounter, reported here for the first time.

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Trump summoned his limo driver to take the agent back to the city. Fuller, with nothing else to go on, closed his notebook. 'Why would your name come up as a possible buyer for them?' The future president of the United States responded calmly that 'he did not know.' He had 'heard about' some people wanting him to buy it, he told Fuller, but not much more. But in 1976, the Fontainebleau was teetering on bankruptcy, and the mobsters needed a straw man to buy it.įuller asked Trump a simple question. Once a beachside favorite of movie stars and the rich, the hotel was also a notorious hangout for Mafia kingpins like Sam Giancana, who famously met with CIA agents in the hotel's Boom Boom Room to plot the assassination of Fidel Castro. The FBI agent was carrying out an errand for the bureau's Miami office, to follow up on a tip that mobsters had asked Trump to front for them in a purchase of the Fontainebleau hotel. 'He never came around, and I do not recall him shaking my hand,' Fuller says. The businessman did not get up to welcome the agent. 'His secretary sat there by the entrance, and Trump was a door away from there.' Ushered in, he found Trump sitting behind his desk. 'There were boards covering wet dirt, in lieu of cement walkways,' Fuller recalls to Newsweek.

Fuller found Trump working out of a temporary office in a double-wide trailer on a muddy construction site. The future tycoon, about 30, was just getting his real estate career off the ground, aided by secret payments from his father. On a rainy day in the spring of 1976, FBI Special Agent Myron Fuller took the New York subway to Brooklyn to interview Donald Trump.

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