Rep. Jerry Nadler, whose district includes lower Manhattan and Ground Zero, has written an open letter to Donald Trump asking him to return a $150,000 grant he received from a fund that was supposed to help small businesses near Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11. MSNBC: The New York Daily News reported last week, for example, on a post-9/11 program, designed to help small businesses around Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks. According to the article, the state “didn’t enforce federal guidelines on what defines a small business” at the time, and Donald Trump took advantage, receiving $150,000 in taxpayer money for “swanky property” he owned on Wall Street. The Daily News added that the money was supposed to help “mom and pop shops make it through an incredibly difficult stretch,” and yet, Trump, a self-professed billionaire, sought and received a slice of the pie. Today, the New York...(Read Full Post)