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USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesnt pay his bills
During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.
The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edwards father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resorts builder.
Edwards son, Paul, who was the firms accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company
which has been around since my grandfather, he said.
Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Knowing Trump's vain and litigious nature, I don't believe it would be printed without golden back up.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Spy magazine wrote about it 25 years back (and also were the first to call him a "short-fingered vulgarian" . Any media company that runs Trump ads better demand cash up front or they will never get paid.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Trump is always working a con game on someone.
lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)The Donald doesn't pay regular people who are contracted for odd jobs.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)i guess we can add deadbeat to trumps list of attributes
Enrique
(27,461 posts)roughly a lawsuit a day 7 days a week for 30 years.
No, it's about 2-1/4 per week for 30 years.