The FBI spent two years monitoring the activities inside Trincher’s luxury apartment—number 63A. Its location? The fifty-first floor of Trump Tower. Trump Tower was now a significant crime scene. Trump lived just three floors above Trincher, in a lavish triplex penthouse. Nahmad had purchased the entire fifty-first floor of the building, at a cost of $20 million, and funded gambling operations run by Trincher’s son Ilya. Federal agents weren’t seeking to eavesdrop on Trump. Rather, their probe was directed at the Russian mob, who happened to be Trump’s almost-next-door neighbors.
