Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump's D.C. hotel
Source: WaPo
Their employees installed plumbing, air conditioning, baseboards and crown molding in Donald Trumps $212 million luxury D.C. hotel.
Afterward, they say, they were stiffed.
Two Washington-area small businesses have filed liens on the Trump International Hotel, saying they have not been compensated for their work completing the 263-room project the president-elect routinely heralds as having finished under budget and ahead of schedule.
One firm, Joseph J. Magnolia Inc., is a private, family-owned plumbing firm with offices in Northeast D.C. and suburban Maryland that claims it is out $2.98 million. According to a mechanics lien the company filed four days before Christmas, Magnolia worked on the Trump hotel for more than two years, from September of 2014 to December of 2016.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2017/01/05/two-contractors-allege-getting-stiffed-for-work-on-trumps-d-c-hotel/
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,457 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)What a slime ball.
That is the Trump business model.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)the entire time he was slaving away, for free, for his hero. I bet he went to the bar every weekend and bragged to his buddies about how drumpf was his buddy, "Don said this to me, Don said that to me", blah, blah, blah...
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)If we're going to elect a personal with a serious mental disorder to the presidency, I at least appreciate Trump's being so outrageously, profoundly disordered. No amateurish wondering if it could be true, just a constant parade of amazing evidences.
Btw, of course, the WaPo publishing means they have already investigated enough to find these claims credible.
Electoral College is scheduled report its counts to congress tomorrow, btw.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Con Job has to be looking over his shoulder.
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)Trump up to his old tricks.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)And the Republican role model for generations of children to come.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)abbeyco
(1,555 posts)That would happen in any other circumstance with a construction project where contractors and suppliers didn't get paid. That kind of thing gets noticed and attended to rather quickly.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...one way or another.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)I hope he feels the regret of his vote for the grifter. If he did his research he would have found out that thump is a con man with a history of stifffing contractors.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)looks like a situation some folks (not saying who) could exploit..........
lark
(23,155 posts)I want to see tons of people taking action against this orange traitorous slug.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)contractors and employees, is that he sees that as a perfectly normal and acceptable way to do business. He's probably going to carry that over into how he expects to run this country. Stiffing Medicare and Social Security payments, not bothering to pay interest on government bonds, then expecting to renegotiate those things. He hasn't a clue that running a business is completely different from running a country, and we are the ones who will be hurt the most by what he's going to do in the next four, maybe eight years.
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)but just look at all the free publicity they're getting.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)his wedding to Marla when he didn't pay her.
DLevine
(1,788 posts)From the article: Magnolia chalked up Trumps missed payments to the president-elect being focused on the country. I voted for the man and he seems to be surrounding himself as he has in the past with some pretty smart people and I wish him the best, he said.
You can't fix stupid.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)I wonder if his family owned business can survive a $2.9 million dollar deficit?
Trump has some pretty smart lawyers, who will keep this fool in court, until his family owned business goes down the crapper!
In the end Mr. Magnolia will end up settling for less then half of what he's owed, and his lawyers will take that!
DLevine
(1,788 posts)people who happily vote for those trying to destroy them.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Stupid asshole: example; one who votes for the person who cheats him out of his pay.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)a Stupid Asshole would be one that never gives a shit!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)That would be an all-time low.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)but I'll bet there will be some lawyers who would also be interested in the publicity. This game may not work this time.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Did he mention it's an unpaid job???
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)And don't get paid up front and in cash before the job, it is your own fault. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)they just don't learn or just don't believe it. He is serial criminal, since he is leasing this building from the taxpayers that own it, what are we going to do about this, take that f***ing name off the building, this megalomaniac is a f***ing national disgrace. Whatever he touches he scams and cons everything----------------amazing
not fooled
(5,801 posts)They just want to be lazy citizens who surrender their brains to an authority figure that they think will "fix things".
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)for O'Donnell says everything and how this country should be worried
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)Hey, at least he's loyal. Dumb as a box of rocks, but loyal.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,276 posts)There were decades of stories of him stiffing and screwing his contractors at that point.
These idiots deserve it. christ, do some fucking research. boning over people who work for him is Trump's only consistent MO.
tenaciousdem
(104 posts)should he ever try to sell the place, he'll have to settle the liens before it can be sold.
ProfessorPlum
(11,276 posts)what an asshole.