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Donald Trump was once paid in gold bars wheeled into Trump Tower apartment, new book claims as he faces sweeping $250 million lawsuit from New York AG Letitia James for ‘lying about the value of his property’
- Upcoming book by Maggie Haberman reveals payment gold bar by leaseholder
- It was to cover the cash portion of the parking garage lease
- He didn’t know what to do with the gold bars and gave them to the guard
- It is unknown what happened to the gold bars and where they went
- Comes as Trump faces lawsuit announced by New York Attorney General for lying about property values
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Donald Trump was once paid in gold bars driven into the Trump Tower apartment, new book claims as he faces a sweeping $250 million lawsuit from New York AG Letitia James for “lying about the value of his property.”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book entitled “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” and obtained by CNNreveals new details about his business dealings, including the payment of the gold bar.
She wrote that Trump sometimes received rent payments in cash and that a leaseholder once gave him the gold bars that covered the cash portion of a parking garage lease.
The parking garage was in the General Motors building in Manhattan, purchased by Trump in 1998.
According to Haberman’s book, Trump had no idea what to do with the gold bars.
He told Matt Calamari, who was a security guard turned CEO of Trump’s Organization, to move the bars to his apartment in Trump Tower.
But it is not known where the gold bars ended up. CNN reported that Calamari’s lawyer did not comment and it was called a “fantasy question” by Trump.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book called “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” and obtained by CNN reveals new details about his business dealings, including the payment of the gold bar
According to Haberman’s book, Trump had no idea what to do with the gold bars. Pictured: Maggie Haberman
It comes after the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against Trump was announced yesterday.
Letitia James announced the charges against the former president at a dramatic news conference on Wednesday, citing a document accusing Trump and his three adult children of pumping real estate well above their real valuations when seeking loans to fund his business. expanding real estate empire.
James said the president and his children were involved in “countless cases of fraud” in a legal move that appears to take away his ability to do business in her state for years.
She specifically mentioned Trump and his three adult children, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump, saying they were “continually” inflating asset values.
Trump hit back at James, who is black, calling her “racist” and accusing her of bringing the matter up to help her “really bad polls.”
“Another witch hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who failed in her run for governor, gained almost no support from the public, and is now underperforming against the Law & Order AG candidate, highly respected Michael Henry,” it wrote. Trump in a message on Truth Social.
“I never thought this case would be brought up – until I saw her really bad poll numbers. She’s a con man who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform, despite the city being one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!’
Letitia James, pictured, announced the lawsuit against the former president at a dramatic news conference on Wednesday, citing a document accusing Trump and his three adult children of pumping up real estate far above their actual valuations in seeking into loans to expand its real estate empire
Despite the apparent extravagance of being paid in gold, there were times when Trump sailed close to the wind.
Trump once had to borrow several million dollars from one of his own executives, George Ross, Haberman reports.
Ross would only tell the author that it was to “cover a situation that was resolved very quickly” and not to make the payroll.