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Showing Original Post only (View all)Third lien on Trump hotel brings alleged unpaid bills to over $5 million [View all]
In the frenzied final six weeks of work at the hotel, while Trump touted the project on the campaign trail, AES of Laurel, Md., claims it assigned 45 members of its staff to work 12-hour shifts for nearly 50 consecutive days to get the lights, electrical and fire systems prepared on time.
We had people there well over 12 hours a day for weeks because they had a hard opening of Sept. 12 and you cant open if the lights dont work and the fire alarms dont work and the fire marshal cant inspect it, said Tim Miller, executive vice president of AES. There is a lot of work that went into that hotel, and it didnt happen by accident.
Trump got his wish: The hotel was ready enough that on Sept. 16 he held a campaign event there honoring veterans, which was carried live on national television. He touted the hotel as having been completed under budget and ahead of schedule and said that when it opened officially the following month it would be one of the great hotels anywhere in the world.
But around the same time, Miller said, the Trump Organization and its construction manager, Lendlease, stopped paying AES. Three days before Christmas, AES filed a mechanics lien with the D.C. government alleging that it was out almost $2.1 million. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to us, Miller said.
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The AES filing brings the total of allegedly unpaid bills on the hotel to more than $5 million. Washington-area plumbing firm Joseph J. Magnolia Inc. and Northern Virginia construction company, A&D Construction, are seeking $2.98 million and $79,700 respectively.
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Miller said he simply did not want the company, family-owned and founded 32 years ago, to have to eat the costs. The hotels total price tag was around $212 million. Trump claims he is worth $10 billion.
Were not in this for any sort of political reasons, Miller said. We have no ax to grind, political or otherwise. Were a business. We have 700 employees that we pay every week. We have bills. We are effectively financing this work, and we dont think its right. Thats really it.
We had people there well over 12 hours a day for weeks because they had a hard opening of Sept. 12 and you cant open if the lights dont work and the fire alarms dont work and the fire marshal cant inspect it, said Tim Miller, executive vice president of AES. There is a lot of work that went into that hotel, and it didnt happen by accident.
Trump got his wish: The hotel was ready enough that on Sept. 16 he held a campaign event there honoring veterans, which was carried live on national television. He touted the hotel as having been completed under budget and ahead of schedule and said that when it opened officially the following month it would be one of the great hotels anywhere in the world.
But around the same time, Miller said, the Trump Organization and its construction manager, Lendlease, stopped paying AES. Three days before Christmas, AES filed a mechanics lien with the D.C. government alleging that it was out almost $2.1 million. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to us, Miller said.
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The AES filing brings the total of allegedly unpaid bills on the hotel to more than $5 million. Washington-area plumbing firm Joseph J. Magnolia Inc. and Northern Virginia construction company, A&D Construction, are seeking $2.98 million and $79,700 respectively.
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Miller said he simply did not want the company, family-owned and founded 32 years ago, to have to eat the costs. The hotels total price tag was around $212 million. Trump claims he is worth $10 billion.
Were not in this for any sort of political reasons, Miller said. We have no ax to grind, political or otherwise. Were a business. We have 700 employees that we pay every week. We have bills. We are effectively financing this work, and we dont think its right. Thats really it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2017/01/06/third-lien-on-trump-hotel-brings-alleged-unpaid-bills-to-over-5-million/
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Third lien on Trump hotel brings alleged unpaid bills to over $5 million [View all]
ehrnst
May 2019
OP
Well it is not like he started a phony university in order to scam money from the widows of the ...
Botany
May 2019
#2
I wish all contractors like this would simply refuse to bid on Trump projects. Nt
spooky3
May 2019
#3
This is not right. HOWEVER, the construction world is FULL of people tRump* shafted....
Raster
May 2019
#5
No shit. It's very telling that people in tRump*s NYC hometown voted almost 10-1 AGAINST tRump*...
Raster
May 2019
#23
What I think happens when these cos. deal with a celebrity or huge conglomerate...
Honeycombe8
May 2019
#13
Trump is a deadbeat grifter and he's doing to this country what he's done to his business.
Vinca
May 2019
#27
Eliz Warren said it best during 2016. tRUMPS are Money Grubbing Grifters. nt.
SayItLoud
May 2019
#28
Trump is just using his Executive Privilege. I think it's in the Constitution or something.
Midnight Writer
May 2019
#34
I have NO SYMPATHY at this point for anyone dim enough to enter a contract with him. It's not like
Maru Kitteh
May 2019
#35