Trump's Doral golf resort also has been embroiled in recent non-payment claims by two different paint firms, with one case settled and the other pending. Trump’s team initially argued a contractor hired the workers, and he wasn’t responsible, and counter-sued the contractor demanding payment. Some workers put in 20-hour days over the 10-day Passover event at Trump National Doral Miami, the lawsuit contends. The settlements averaged about $800 for each worker and as high as $3,000 for one, according to court records. Just last month, Trump Miami Resort Management LLC settled with 48 servers at his Miami golf resort over failing to pay overtime for a special event. In the interview, Trump repeatedly said the cases were “a long time ago.” However, even as he campaigns for the presidency, new cases are continuing. The number of companies and others alleging he hasn’t paid suggests that either his companies have a poor track record hiring workers and assessing contractors, or that Trump businesses renege on contracts, refuse to pay, or consistently attempt to change payment terms after work is complete as is alleged in dozens of court cases. However, the consistent circumstances laid out in those lawsuits and other non-payment claims raise questions about Trump’s judgment as a businessman, and as a potential commander- in- chief. To be sure, Trump and his companies have prevailed in many legal disputes over missing payments, or reached settlements that cloud the terms reached by the parties. “That’s what the country should be doing.” I’ll deduct from their contract, absolutely,” Trump said. “Let’s say that they do a job that’s not good, or a job that they didn’t finish, or a job that was way late. If a company or worker he hires isn’t paid fully, the Trumps said, it’s because The Trump Organization was unhappy with the work. Trump and his daughter Ivanka, in an interview with USA TODAY, shrugged off the lawsuits and other claims of non-payment. Some just give up the fight, or settle for less some have ended up in bankruptcy or out of business altogether. In some cases, the Trump teams financially overpower and outlast much smaller opponents, draining their resources. The actions in total paint a portrait of Trump’s sprawling organization frequently failing to pay small businesses and individuals, then sometimes tying them up in court and other negotiations for years.
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On just one project, Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, records released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1990 show that at least 253 subcontractors weren’t paid in full or on time, including workers who installed walls, chandeliers and plumbing. In addition to the lawsuits, the review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens - filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work - since the 1980s. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y., air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New York City real estate banking firm. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages. Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.ĭonald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades - and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.Įdward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600.
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landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza. During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr.
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