Sep. 29, 2023
The Don on Trial
Although separated by nearly ninety years, the parallels between the Trump and Lucania prosecutions are many, and if you squint just a little, they might even prove predictive of what lies ahead for the 45th President of the United States.





C. Joseph Greaves
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Greaves is the author of seven novels, including "Tom & Lucky" (Bloomsbury), a Wall Street Journal "Best Books of 2015" selection.
We’ve been here before. The year was 1936, and the Don on trial then, along with a dozen alleged co-conspirators, was a man named Salvatore Lucania. Although separated by nearly ninety years, the parallels between the Trump and Lucania prosecutions are many, and if you squint just a little, they might even prove predictive of what lies ahead for the 45th President of the United States.
Like Donald Trump’s manifold legal difficulties, Lucan...
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