Vera Coking, had owned property near the Trump Plaza Hotel for three decades, and didn’t want to move. Trump thought the land was better suited for use as a park, a parking lot, and a waiting area for limousines. He tried to negotiate, at one point offering Coking $1 million for the land. But she wasn’t budging. So New Jersey’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority filed a lawsuit, instructing Coking to leave within 90 days and offering compensation of only $251,000.
eminent domain ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
want to make new friends, and see new places ?
screw with The Donald.
He's doing the
same thing in Scotland.
Like he did in Connecticut ....
>> In 1994 when Trump promised to turn Bridgeport, Connecticut, a city of fewer than 150,000 residents, into a “world class” center, he explained that with his money, and the assistance of local government officials, Bridgeport would become “a national tourist destination by building a $350 million combined amusement park, shipping terminal and seaport village [Bridgeport is located on the Pequonnock River and Long Island Sound] and office complex on the east side of the harbor.” According to the
Hartford Courant, which reported on the event, Trump used the phrase “world class” in “almost every statement.”
At the announcement, socialist mayor Joseph Ganim (Bridgeport has had an avowed socialist mayor for the last 24 years) yukked it up with The Donald — the two of them praising each other for each other’s foresight and ingenuity, and speaking of “returning Bridgeport to its glory days.”
The only problem was that five businesses and the city-owned Pleasure Beach occupied the parcel targeted by Trump and Ganim. The solution? Explained the
Courant:
The city would become a partner with Trump Connecticut, Inc. and obtain the land through its powers of condemnation. Trump would in turn buy the land from the city.
The entire development would cost the city nothing, Trump said, and no private homeowners would be affected because there were no dwellings on the land. Trump would own everything.
Of course the business owners were expendable. Other than that, the entire project was going to be “free.” It didn’t take long for the whole deal to unravel, but it perfectly illustrated Trump’s style and attitude toward property rights. << ---
Rump's Use of Eminent Domain to Take What he Wants
(There's the link the OP didn't supply) .... here's the epilogue:
>> Vera Coking moved out of Atlantic City in 2010 and her son put the contested property on the market, asking $5 million. In September 2013 the price was reduced to $995,000. On July 31, 2014 the property was sold at a public auction for $530,000, bought by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who had the property demolished. And so it remains today, as the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was closed on September 16, 2014, due to lack of business ... and limousines. <<
Vera Coking wasn't the only one affected by an ego so massive it thinks it has enough money to take a Dump anywhere it wants:
>> Suzette Kelo’s little pink house in London, Connecticut, was demolished and the planned development project never took place. Today where her house once stood is now a public dump. <<
Oh wait ------ this is the same guy peddling himself as a "success".