Deadbeat Trump strikes again: refuses to pay a vendor $34K. Gets sued. Loses $300K.

[pnwmom]

This is how he's made his fortune -- stiffing people.

Most of them decide its not worth it to pursue him, but this stubborn vendor spent $300K in attorney's fees to get $34K that Trump owed to him.

But Trump will keep doing this because he knows most people, unlike this paint seller, won't think it's worth taking a chance on losing.


http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article91353232.html

While developer Donald Trump was busy getting the Republican Party’s presidential nomination this week, he was losing big in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Circuit Court Judge Jorge Cueto, presiding over a lawsuit related to unpaid bills brought by a local paint store against the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort, ordered the billionaire politician’s company to pay the Doral-based mom-and-pop shop nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees.

All because, according to the lawsuit, Trump allegedly tried to stiff The Paint Spot on its last payment of $34,863 on a $200,000 contract for paint used in the renovation of the home of golf’s famed Blue Monster two years ago.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article91353232.html#storylink=cpy

[gopiscrap]

1. I am wondering if he could get arrested for

theft of services

[Travis_0004]

2. No

Not paying a bill is a civil matter.

Theft of services involves fraud, or something like tampering with a utility meter.

If somebody has a reason not to pay (even a really bad reason) the criminal courts consider it a civil matter.