PeterS

In late October, just weeks ahead of the e******n, President-elect Donald Trump made a quick detour to Washington for the official opening of his new five-star hotel, just a few blocks from the White House.

During a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Trump told the crowd that the two-year, roughly $200 million renovation project at the historic Old Post Office Building was done ahead of schedule and under budget, thanks to what he called an incredible team of people — "including hundreds of construction workers, electricians, maintenance workers and so many others who helped make this project a reality. They're really the important ones."

Now some of those companies would like final payment for their work. Documents obtained by NPR show three Washington-area companies have filed liens against Trump International Hotel totaling more than $5 million.

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One company, Joseph J. Magnolia Inc., filed a $2.98 million mechanic's lien in December. According to the filing, the firm worked on the hotel from September 2014 to December 2016 and "completed all plumbing, mechanical and HVAC work, along with site sewer, water, storm and water services."

AES Electrical Inc., based in Laurel, Md., says it's owed $2.075 million for its work on the hotel for the same period of time as Magnolia.

Sterling, Va.,-based A&D Construction filed a lien in November saying it was owed $79,700. The firm's lawyer, Richard Sissman, says A&D is a small, Hispanic-owned company that was subcontracting on the Trump hotel project.

"The nature of the work was ... trim and casework and architectural millwork, wall base, crown molding; this is all fine carpentry," he says.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/11/509168365/trump-d-c-hotel-contractors-say-theyre-owed-millions

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

That's business............ Goober.

Deal with it..

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

There are often disagreements and law suits after multi-million dollar real estate projects. This type of litigation is not uncommon. In many cases, the work done by the contractors was not satisfactory or was incomplete, so the owner(s) or investor(s) refuse to pay until the work is satisfactorily completed. In some cases, the sub-contractors are simply trying to rec**p their losses or cost overruns.

Much more information needs to be stated to decide if Trump has mistreated the construction contractors. Your post is just more l*****t crap!

Airforceone

WHY DOES THIS SUPRISE ANYBODY THATS WHAT TRUMP DOES HE SCREWS HIS EMPLOYEES AND SUB CONTRACTORS. I garunteed they will all take him to court and Trump in typical fashion does an out of court settlement and then he claims he won just like the 3876 lawsuits in the past.

JW

I had to have a 2.5 acre lawn plus the area around the front of my building reseeded. The provider and I agreed to the area to be covered.

He billed me for the agreed coverage and I refused to pay more than half of the billing because he had reseeded less than half of the agreed area. He sued and claimed he had used enough seed to do the entire agreed area and expected to be paid accordingly.

I argued that how much seed he used was not my concern. My concern was that my lawn was treated in a specific manner.

I won. Who screwed whom... or tried to?

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

Excellent example of why owners/investors often refuse to pay contractors. Failure to meet specifications.

PeterS

So this is just a coincidence that this happens on just about every Trump project?

JW

The more exacting the contractor, or the more slippery the sub-contractor, the more often it will happen. I am quite certain if you ordered a million dollar project, you would expect a million dollar result.

Lonewolf

But there is one on every trump project

woodguru

Yours is typical Right Wing ignorance and obfuscation...

Trump has a long and illustrious history of stiffing contractors and workers. In the case where the paint supplier sued and won judgments he openly stated in his defense that the person had made plenty. There are hundreds and hundreds (thousands) of lawsuits of this nature, and considering the expense to pursue these represents a small fraction of how he does this as a business model.

In the case where the paint supplier sued it was a $290k contract and the guy got stiffed for $30k. The judgment was for almost $300 grand, the $30k plus attorney's fees. Trump's MO is to fight these legally and make them cost so much in attorney's fees that it isn't worth it.

Lonewolf

even poor business men don't go bankrupt 4 times like trump

woodguru

Unless you buy businesses with the intent to bankrupt them...borrow hundreds of millions, strip off cash assets to other businesses and personally, rack up 700 million in payables to vendors and contractors who get stiffed in a BK, pressure the bank into a few hundred million more threatening to walk away...

Oh, and when the bank writes off a $900 million loss, which is actually income to the person who defaulted that they should be paying taxes on as income, write it off as a loss, thereby carrying the banks losses as his losses.

Trump sees that as being a good businessman, using the system.

Lonewolf

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Eh, go k**l a few more babies. You'll get over it, and feel better.

Airforceone

Give me a break will you grow up.