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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
There are many short paragraphs in this one, which means it's nearly impossible to do a meaningful 4-paragraph extract. for the full picture, go to the URL and read the whole article.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
By RUSS BUETTNER and CHARLES V. BAGLIJUNE 11, 2016
Less than two weeks before the casino opened, Marvin B. Roffman, a casino analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott, an investment firm based in Philadelphia, told The Wall Street Journal that the Taj would need to reap $1.3 million a day just to make its interest payments, a sum no casino had ever achieved.
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By December 1990, when Mr. Trump needed to make an $18.4 million interest payment, his father, Fred C. Trump, sent a lawyer to the Castle to buy $3.3 million in chips, to provide him with an infusion of cash. The younger Mr. Trump made the payment, but the Casino Control Commission fined the Castle $65,000 for what had amounted to an illegal loan.
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Just over a year after it opened, the Taj Mahal was in bankruptcy court, followed in 1992 by both the Plaza and the Castle. In the plan that was worked out, Mr. Trump ceded to the lenders a 50 percent stake in the businesses in return for lower interest rates. The lenders agreed to defer certain principal and interest payments and hold off on personal claims against Mr. Trump for five years. But there was little or no reduction in the enormous debts that would plague his gambling empire far into the future.
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Beth Rosser of West Chester, Pa., is still bitter over what happened to her father, whose company Triad Building Specialties nearly collapsed when Mr. Trump took the Taj into bankruptcy. It took three years to recover any money owed for his work on the casino, she said, and her father received only 30 cents on the dollar.
By RUSS BUETTNER and CHARLES V. BAGLIJUNE 11, 2016
Less than two weeks before the casino opened, Marvin B. Roffman, a casino analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott, an investment firm based in Philadelphia, told The Wall Street Journal that the Taj would need to reap $1.3 million a day just to make its interest payments, a sum no casino had ever achieved.
***
By December 1990, when Mr. Trump needed to make an $18.4 million interest payment, his father, Fred C. Trump, sent a lawyer to the Castle to buy $3.3 million in chips, to provide him with an infusion of cash. The younger Mr. Trump made the payment, but the Casino Control Commission fined the Castle $65,000 for what had amounted to an illegal loan.
***
Just over a year after it opened, the Taj Mahal was in bankruptcy court, followed in 1992 by both the Plaza and the Castle. In the plan that was worked out, Mr. Trump ceded to the lenders a 50 percent stake in the businesses in return for lower interest rates. The lenders agreed to defer certain principal and interest payments and hold off on personal claims against Mr. Trump for five years. But there was little or no reduction in the enormous debts that would plague his gambling empire far into the future.
***
Beth Rosser of West Chester, Pa., is still bitter over what happened to her father, whose company Triad Building Specialties nearly collapsed when Mr. Trump took the Taj into bankruptcy. It took three years to recover any money owed for his work on the casino, she said, and her father received only 30 cents on the dollar.
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How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jun 2016
OP
I think Hillary's campaign should concentrate a LOT on this type of thing. Trump's
patricia92243
Jun 2016
#3
annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. His standard operating procedure, apparently.
Go in unprepared and ignorant knowing that you can back out by abusing the court system when the whole thing crashes around your ears...
What could possibly go wrong with this yabbo in the WH?
denverbill
(11,489 posts)2. You forgot the URL.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)5. No I didn't
Thank you.
patricia92243
(12,591 posts)3. I think Hillary's campaign should concentrate a LOT on this type of thing. Trump's
main bragging is how good a business man he is and how he will make America so great - just like his businesses.
patricia92243
(12,591 posts)4. link???
PDittie
(8,322 posts)6. #StillEarnedMillions
trending on Twitter.
This fucking guy...