An ongoing USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in thousands of legal actions in federal and state courts over the past three decades.
In the meeting, Donald Trump told his father that the company’s work was inferior, Friel said, even though the general contractor on the casino had approved it. The bottom line, Trump told Edward Friel, was the company wouldn’t get the final payment. Then, Friel said Trump added something that struck the family as bizarre. Trump told his dad that he could work on other Trump projects in the future.Read more
The only thing Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump. Period.Read more
Tesoro designed the clubhouse of the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, NY. Trump loved it. But when Tesoro sent Trump a bill for his work, he replied through his lawyers: Accept pennies on the dollar or I’ll tie you up in court for yearsRead more
When the payment was late, we were assured that the money’s on the way: ‘don’t worry, it’s coming.’ It never came.Read more
Vice President of his family business, Atlantic Plate Glass. Contracted to install floor-to-ceiling curtain walls of glass at the Trump Taj Mahal. Read more
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.Read more
Sperry was president of Baring Industries, which had a multi-million dollar contract to provide kitchen equipment to the Trump Taj-Mahal.Read more
Weak from heart surgery and a sepsis infection that would soon kill her, Patricia Paone was resting at home last summer when an apparition appeared on the TV — a famous businessman who had struck a deal with her husband years before.Read more
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.Read more
Itzel Hudek didn’t have reason to fear for her job. She said that for the 13 months she worked for Trump National as a reservations supervisor, she consistently received positive performance reviews, and was even rated outstanding in one of her reviews.Read more
As he was walking into a meeting with contractors to share strategies about how to deal with Trump, landscaper Herman Caucci asked him what he planned to do: Stick it out in hopes of getting all he was owed, or take cash at a discount?Read more
Marty Rosenberg has sat across the negotiating table from Donald Trump, and he says it cost his business nearly a half-million dollars when the man who currently reigns as the Republican presidential front-runner didn’t live up to his end of the deal.Read more
The Paint Spot of Doral sued Trump after he reportedly tried to stiff the mom-and-pop store on its last payment of $34, 863 two years ago. This July a Miami-Dade judge ordered Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees. Trump has yet to pay.Read more
In Las Vegas, Mr. Walters’s drapery dispute took a bizarre turn when the sheriff’s deputies presented a court order demanding he hand over fabric his company, Catalina Draperies.Read more
Donald Trump has a message for anyone who agrees to do a job for him: If I don’t like your work or I think you’re trying to rip me off, don’t expect to be paid in full.Read more
A great deal to Donald Trump means that he came out ahead and you lost money.Read more
In 2004, Mr. Trump chose 5-foot-wide chandeliers with 75 bulbs from the store, said Judith Jacobson, who said she designed the fixture and worked there with her ex-husband, Nicolas Jacobson, the owner.Read more