Two generations, from a 1927 arrest in Queens to a felony conviction in Manhattan. Nothing here is new reporting — every item was documented at the time, in court files, federal filings or the press of record.
Click any entry to open it. Where a record is ambiguous or contested, the entry says so plainly rather than resolving it in either direction.
A politician's past is not automatically relevant to present conduct, and dredging up decades-old material to score points is exactly the tactic this site criticises elsewhere. So the standard here is narrow: an item earns a place only if the same structure shows up in the present record.
By that test the entries above are not trivia. A federal housing-discrimination suit against the family firm, a settlement of fraud claims over a university, a charitable foundation dissolved for functioning as a personal chequebook, a jury finding of persistent business-record falsification, and an appellate court upholding a finding that net worth was inflated for years to get better loan terms — these describe the same behaviours the rest of this site documents in office, with the same defence deployed each time.
The one entry that changes how everything else reads is the last: the 2018 tax investigation showing roughly $413 million received from his father, beginning in early childhood. The self-made narrative was the foundation of the public persona, and the documentary record does not support it.