Matthew Calamari, an executive vice president with the Trump Organization, stands in the lobby at Trump Tower in January 2017. “You’d do anything for me, wouldn’t you, Matty?” Trump asked from the back of the limo, according to Harry Hurt III’s 1993 biography, “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.”“Yes, sir, Mr. Trump,” Calamari replied. By the early ’90s, Calamari had been promoted to security director for Trump Tower in New York, and his responsibilities within the Trump Organization only continued to expand. In August 2017, BuzzFeed News reported that Calamari had allegedly been part of a group that “terrorized” the family of a Trump Organization employee in 1995. Someone writing a mob drama with a character named “Matthew Calamari” would be told it’s a bit too on-the-nose.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 12:06 UTC