a little old lady kept Trump in court until hell froze over, and her daughter finally sold her house Trump tried to get through iminent domain ... 21 years later .. and not to Trump
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In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City
casino and
hotel, intending to build a
parking lot designed for
limousines.
[3] Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for 32 years,
refused to sell. As a result, the city
condemned her house, using the power of
eminent domain. She was offered $251,000,
[4] which was about one quarter of what she was offered by Guccione 10 years earlier.
With the assistance of the
Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities and eventually prevailed.
[5] Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that because there were "no limits" on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Coking's property did not meet the test of law. But Williams' ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States in
Kelo v. City of New London.
Two other properties that prevailed against eminent domain eventually did sell: Sabatini's restaurant received $2.1 million and a pawnshop sold for $1.6 million. Their lots became part of a large lawn flanking a taxi stand for Trump's casino.
[1][6] Coking remained in her house until 2010, when she moved to a retirement home in the San Francisco Bay Area near her daughter and grandchildren.
Property records show that on June 2, 2010, Coking transferred ownership of the house to her daughter, who put it on the market in 2011 with an initial asking price of $5 million.
[1][7] By September 2013 the price had reduced to $1 million,
[8]
The property was finally sold for $583,000 in an auction on July 31, 2014.
[9] The buyer was
Carl Icahn, who held the debt on Trump Entertainment, owner of Trump Plaza. He subsequently demolished the house on November 19, 2014.
[10] Neither the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority nor the owners of Trump Plaza expressed any interest in the auction.
[1]
The adjacent
Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the property for which Trump wanted Coking's property to begin with, closed in September 2014, due to lack of business.
[11]
**** trump ..