In 2005, an American businessman pleaded guilty to violating the embargo by selling water-purification supplies to Cuba. imposed an undisclosed fine on the Spanish airline Iberia for transporting Cuban goods through the United States. If Trump’s violation of the act had been discovered earlier, the developer could have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison and fined as much as a million dollars. The embargo is a complex bundle of laws and prohibitions that have accrued over a half century and that can only be done away with by a majority vote in Congress, which seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. trade embargo with Cuba, part of the Trading with the Enemy Act-which, as it happens, is still on the books today, despite President Obama’s restoration of relations with Cuba, in December, 2014. Clearly, Trump’s company, then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, knowingly violated the long-standing U.S. Documents obtained by Newsweek suggest that Trump’s executives knew as much, and sought to conceal the payments by making it appear that they had gone to a charitable effort. The payment was illegal, and was also covered up. According to a story in the current issue of Newsweek, Trump paid the expenses for the consultants, who worked for the Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation. In 1998, a decade after his ghostwritten memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” made him a household name in the United States, the New York real-estate developer Donald Trump sent a team of consultants to Cuba to sniff out new business opportunities.
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