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To: GovernmentShrinker

and she'll make a heck of a lot more from book and movie deals.


173 posted on 12/21/2006 10:58:35 AM PST by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: absolootezer0

I rather it doubt it. Nothing of the sort happened to Vera Coking, who eventually won her battle (first with Bob Guccione and later with Donald Trump, after at one point having the steel frame of Guccione's new hotel-casino constructed directly over her roof and around her house (he was forced to dismantle it later -- in the process, demolition workers started a fire on her roof, dropped blocks of concrete through her roof into the house, and broke windwos).

Guccione's project fell into bankruptcy after all this, and he was forced to sell the land to Donald Trump, who subsequently tried and failed to reach a deal with Mrs. Coking, and eventually got the message and redesigned his hotel-casino plans to work around her home in a pretty reasonable way.

Trump recently started trying to negotiate with her again, as it's been a whole 10 years and "The Donald" now feels the need to build an even larger, more extravagant hotel-casino on the site. Reportedly, she's given him her price and he feels it's too high. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/story/6878196p-6743121c.html


182 posted on 12/21/2006 11:17:51 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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