Contractor files $2 million lawsuit against Trump for unpaid bills

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316098-contractor-files-2-million-against-trump-for-unpaid-bills



A Maryland-based electrical company is suing President Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel for than $2 million, Politico reports.
AES Electrical, also called Freestate Electrical, alleged that its employees had to work “nonstop” to complete electrical and fire alarm systems before the hotel’s “soft opening” in September and its grand opening in October. It says it never received payment for its work.

The lawsuit also argues that without Freestate, the real estate mogul would not have been able to hold an event at the hotel in September.
“At the time of the ‘soft opening,’ Donald J. Trump, President of Defendent, Trump Old Post Office, LLC, was a U.S. presidential candidate and the ‘soft opening’ had to occur to permit Mr. Trump’s nationally televised campaign event from the Hotel on September 16, 2016, which was to honor U.S. veterans,” the lawsuit says. “But for Freestate’s acceleration of work and performance of extra work on the project, this event would not have been able to occur.”

Freestate also noted that its work before the hotel’s “grand opening” on Oct. 26 was timed just before the Nov. 8 election in order to generate “positive press coverage.”

Freestate isn’t the first contractor to accuse Trump’s businesses of not paying the bills. Two other companies that worked on the Washington hotel — A&D Construction Inc. and plumbing company Joseph J. Magnolia, Inc. — filed liens for unpaid bills.

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No surprise here Trump thinks any contractor who has done work for him does below par work and will only pay what he think's they deserve. Well since many have performed work for him in different parts of the country why would he even want to bring jobs back to the U.S. if we have such sub par worker's?

ppaca wrote:No surprise here Trump thinks any contractor who has done work for him does below par work and will only pay what he think's they deserve. Well since many have performed work for him in different parts of the country why would he even want to bring jobs back to the U.S. if we have such sub par worker's?

If he has such a horrid reputation for paying, why do contractors continue to bid on his jobs and seek to work for him?

As you know, I can sue you for $2 million today. Doesn't mean a thing.

Let me know after this has gone to trial.