Negotiations for payment, such as they were, dragged on for months. The casino opened, not quite finished, in April. You need to give me some leverage and some time.' ' 'I said, 'I want you know that you're not going to get your money right away, but you're going to get every dime. Next, Rosenberg called the 20 or 30 suppliers to whom he still owed money for the Taj work.

You can't give me a check then.' ' He didn't get his check. But I said, 'Once I organize this meeting, there's no stopping this. He said, 'What's this I hear about a meeting?' I tell him, and he says, 'How do we stop this meeting? And I say, 'Give me a check.' He laughed. 'The day of the meeting, which was around lunch time, I get a telephone call, from Donald's attorney. 'What we tried to do as a group is get all the small contractors paid, because they would get bankrupted.'

I would rent a room not a unit, but a large room, and send an invitation to every contractor we knew was on the job.' The contractors could band together to negotiate for payment. 'My plan was simple: I would call a meeting at Resorts International. 'I spoke to my brother and said, ' 'Harry, we've got a problem.' ' Recovering what they were owed would take time and a lot of money. (The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about this episode.) He called the Trump Organization and was told, 'Marty, you'll have your check in two weeks.' Two weeks passed and no check arrived. Trump was known for not paying contractors whose work he deemed inferior, but Rosenberg he fielded no such complaints. 'I didn't get a check, and that check was for $1.2 - $1.3 million.' 'At the end of the job, I did not get my requisition,' he said.

By then, he had been paid somewhere between $11 and $12 million. Rosenberg finished the work in February 1990. That was the only time Rosenberg ever met Donald Trump. All the trials and triumphs of building a business – delivered to your inbox.

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