Trump's DC hotel facing $5 million in unpaid workers liens.

[pnwmom]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-05/trump-s-dc-hotel-tagged-with-5-million-in-unpaid-worker-liens

Donald Trump’s new Washington hotel, located just blocks from the White House, owes electricians, wood workers and a plumbing and heating business more than $5 million for unpaid labor, according to liens filed against the property with the District of Columbia.

The 263-room hotel, located on the historic site of the city’s former main post office, opened in October following a $212 million renovation of the 1899 structure. The liens were filed in November and December, according to public records.

Trump has acknowledged not always paying all his bills, saying it’s often a negotiating tactic when work is subpar. His companies have been sued numerous times over unpaid work. Among them were landscapers at Riverside South Park in Manhattan, who sued in 2001 seeking $111,000. Contractors at Trump Park Avenue sued in 2003 seeking $206,000. And in 2010 a painter in Chicago sued a Trump entity developing a high-rise claiming to be owed more than $4 million.

Since his Nov. 8 election, the Trump International Hotel has become a focus of scrutiny as a potential source of conflicts of interest. The site is leased from the federal government, which Trump will lead as of Jan. 20. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have called upon the president-elect to divest his stake, citing lease terms prohibiting elected officials from being a party to a deal or receiving benefits from it.

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[Cha]

1. That's our Rigged Select

[radical noodle]

2. As a person who worked for

commercial construction specialty companies for nearly 30 years, I can tell you that general construction companies that do that are crooks. They look for things to drag out payments because they don't have money. It's classic.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Trump has been doing that for decades now.

I am reading a biography of him, in which he and his father both used tactics to weasel out of full payment of various jobs.

[herding cats]

3. Hey, it'll be bigly less after litigation.

That's business. If ya don't like it, find another country to live in. This is Trump's America©.

[Jakes Progress]

4. He will settle.

He can't afford to be deposed again and again. Unlike his lies to the camera, the lies he might tell there can get him in trouble.

[Charles Bukowski]

5. I still find it hard to be believe that this

despicable piece of shit will be in the Oval Office for four years. Just a repugnant human being in every possible way.

[bettyellen]

6. He simultaneously contends his places are "the best" bit claims the work put in was shoddy? How?

[McCamy Taylor]

7. No man of the people cheats the people like this.

Stories like this need lots of airplay.

[Hekate]

8. He is an embarrassment

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Trump is broke as fuck. Why else would he sell tickets to himself at NYE for $525/ea?

Because he's BROKE.

He didn't want to run for Prez. He HAD to, and now to borrow from Sen. Schumer, he's like the dog that caught the bus. He's EFFED and so are we.

Jesus H Chrysler.

Nice job Amurika.