Posted on 07/23/2026 6:19:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers.
Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about half a dozen other construction jobs and left it on the verge of collapse. Owen described the shutdown as a painful decision he believed was necessary to save the company from bankruptcy.
"Laying off close to 30 people is something that no owner in our industry wants to do," Owen said. "It’s a hard thing to do, especially when you know you can finish them and the company can still make money. But we were put in a pretty bad corner."
The company is one of several subcontractors to report financial trouble after working on the center, which was promoted as a transformative economic opportunity for small and minority-owned businesses.
A previous Fox News Digital investigation identified several subcontractors — including Black-owned firms the project was specifically intended to support — that said they were owed money or had absorbed losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions. The largest dispute involves the Concrete Collective, which is seeking more than $40 million in additional payment.
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well at least he gets to tell people he volunteered a lot of plumbing work for Obama
Has this claim been adjudicated? There could be reasons the tab wasn’t paid. Incompetence, quality of work, etc.
The courts are made for this.
“But we were put in a pretty bad corner.”
Hey Mister Contractor, you put yourself in the corner when you took advantage of being black. Embrace the suck.
“You Effed up! You trusted Obama!”
With his dough, the messiah could erase this debt and make the subcontractor whole in a minute. But, as with libs (and mafiosi), spending one’s own money...
They (as a demographic) are entitled and have become masters at extortion. (Affirmative action, et al.)
It's more than just possible that the contractor in the article didn't do his job and the overseers of O'Dumbo's monstrosity are withholding payment.
Having the honor of serving ‘Dear Leader’ should be all the payment they need.
The structure looks like some type of Islamic architecture sans minarets.
Simple, you’re a plumber, make sure the toilets don’t flush. The building will be condemned, Trump will buy it for pennies on the dollar, and have a pay per view demolition extravaganza!
It’s not if, it’s when.
The obama Center is a fraud!
Here are some real Presidential libraries:
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