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Old article from Joe Conason...goes to character, or lack thereof.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/09/07/beware-when-three-fat-guys-from-the-trump-organization-knock-on-your-door/?fbclid=IwAR3K1naChAcSsY4dGAkXty7xu73GR7-hA_WQNae7xP0Xd9AFuuNzW6oO2c8
Beware When Three Fat Guys From the Trump Organization Knock on Your Door
All presidents have something to be ashamed of. Donald Trump is the first one who evicted a stroke victim in order to get a higher rent payment
by Joe Conason
September 7, 2018
All of our presidents did things in their youth that they were not particularly proud of: George Washington chopped down that cherry tree; Bill Clinton famously didnt inhale, but Barack Obama did. And when he was 30, George W. Bush was caught driving under the influence. (He quit drinking for good ten years later.)
Donald Trump has been a teetotaller from the jump, but when he was 33, his company evicted a 74-year-old widow from her Queens apartment. As Joe Conason reported in the May 5, 1980, edition of the Voice, the Trump Organization sent three big fat men to Mary Filans apartment to clear both her belongings and her bedridden body out of the building on Barclay Avenue in Flushing.
Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke, told Conason, They said theyd come to put me on the street because I owed four months rent. I dont owe back rent. The last thing I got from Trump was a bill for $10.20, about two weeks ago, and I sent that. They just want me out because they can get twice as much rent.
When Conason followed up with Trumps spokesman, he was told, The Trumps dont get involved in any of that. The spokesman added that he didnt know why Mary Filan had been evicted, and Conason further reported that Filan didnt give loud parties, or cause property damage, or threaten her neighbors, who are actually fond of her. Conason also discussed the generous tax exemptions Trump was getting around the city, concluding: Two thoughts persist: How would Donald Trump feel if some corporation evicted his ill and aging parent, without notice or compassion, removing all possessions to some unknown location? And how does Trump manage to have taxpayers subsidize so many of his enterprises?
Well, Trump couldnt give up drinking, because he never started. Maybe he shouldve given up evicting tenants who had never done anything wrong instead.
May 5, 1980
For more that 30 years Mary Filan widowed, 74 years old, and half-paralyzed from a recent stroke has lived in apartment 6B, 143-15 Barclay Avenue in Flushing. Last Friday afternoon, she answered the insistent doorbell, only to be pushed aside by the henchmen of city marshal Norman Katz, who proceeded to cart her belongings out to an idling truck. Taped to her door was an eviction notice from her landlords, the Trump Organization.
They took Filans sofa, chairs, TV, jewelry, dishes, and silverware, leaving nothing but a hamper for her to sit on. The marshals and the police tried to convince her to leave, but she refused to go until a neighbor, Bob Hennessy, convinced her to stay in his apartment until she could get help.
She was distraught, said Hennessy, and by Monday afternoon he was still unable to ascertain where her belongings had been taken. Thanks to her doctor and the Human Resources Administration, Mary Filan is resting in a bed at Parsons Hospital.
They rang the bell, recalls Filan, and I was still in bed. U dont get up much unless I have to. They rang and rang, and when I got to the door they pushed it open, and walked in, these three big fat men. They went right in the kitchen and sarted pulling out drawers, turning em upside down into one of these big cartons.
They said theyd come to put me on the street because I owed four months rent. I dont owe back rent. They last thing I got from Trump was a bill for $10.20 about two weeks ago, and I sent that. They just want me out because they can get twice as much rent. Mary Filan currently pays about $200 a month for her apartment. Her income from Social Security and a telephone company pension is under $500 a month.
The Trump Organization is one of the biggest landlords in the this city, a dynasty passed from father Fred to son Donald. Like most dynasties, it has flourished through the exercise of power; in earlier time, mostly through the Brooklyn Democratic machine; now, through Donalds liaisons with the governor and a variety of state agencies, particularly the Urban Development Corporation, which paid Donald Trump more than $800,000 for brokering its convention center deal. He has used political clout to obtain more than $160 million in tax exemptions for his renovation of the old Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street. Donald Trump is a very successful 33-year-old dealer and developer. So why did Trump evict Mary Filan?
The Trumps dont get involved in any of that, said a spokesman at their Manhattan office. The management corporation handles that kind of thing. Its part of the company, but the Trumps dont get involved with individual cases. He didnt know why Mary Filan had been evicted. She doesnt give loud parties, or cause property damage, or threaten her neighbors, who are actually fond of her.
The Trump Organization doesnt evict people indiscriminately, he said at last, and suggested another number to call for specific comments on the Filan case. There was no answer at that number; nobody seemed to care about the details.
Two thoughts persist: How would Donald Trump feel if some corporation evicted his ill and aging parent, without notice or compassion, removing all possessions to some unknown location? And how does Trump manage to have the taxpayers subsidize so many of his enterprises? Mary Filans hospital stay is being paid for by Medicare and Medicaid.
BKDem
(1,733 posts)Got worse with age.
MH1
(17,600 posts)From Conason's post on FB:
"The historic first day of impeachment reminded me that almost 40 years ago, I wrote my first story about Donald Trump. He evicted an elderly tenant who had suffered a stroke. (He's still the same guy.)"
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Would not care if his mother or father got dumped in the street as long as he had gotten his inheritance out of them first.