Jeb (as did Cruz) deliberately lied about Trump using eminent domain to bulldoze a widow/s house.
The house was not bulldozed or taken from the widow. Or made into a casino parking lot. There is no truth whatsoever to this story.
Jeb/Cruz are desperate ..... contriving a scenario of a "poor put-upon woman victimized by Trump."
The widow/s conniving was so apparent. Trump offered her more and more money as he built his casino around her pigsty of a home. In the end the widow's scheme to blackmail Donald flopped.
Mrs Coking stubbornly refused the million dollar offer for her
pre-WW11 abode. Holding out allowed the casino to be built around
her property She figured she could extract even more money for the
postage-stamp size property.
Jeb/Cruz should have mentioned that.
Trump/s offer was a whopping $1.9 mill----another Jeb/Cruz stumble. She turned it down. Her son got her to come and live with him and they put it on the market for $5 mil. No buyers. It finally was auctioned off for back taxes and sold for half a million. That was the gross...not net.
The son's agenda was apparent, as well. The son thought he would make a killing since everything would eventually go to him. Tough luck, bud.
The irony of the widow/s position is that she could have beat Donald at his own game....ask for points in his casino and had more money rolling in that she could have ever dreamed of.
Interesting details. Bottom line is that Trump TRIED, but failed, to use eminent domain to have a widow’s home seized for a limo parking garage.
The history of the Coking widow.
In the late 1970s, Penthouse tycoon Bob Guccione, eager to get in on the Atlantic City casino action, offered Coking $1 million for her lot. She refused. Exasperated, Guccione tried to build his facility around the house, but his project went broke before he could finish, leaving a steel frame looming over Coking’s place for more than a decade.
So, there was a massive steel framework virtually encasing the house. She had run the house as a boarding home, but did not take any borders from the time the first casino was built in 1978.
Trump comes along in the early 90’s and acquires the unfinished Guccione project, and the CRDA (the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority) offered her low market value - condition considered, and she refused. She wanted one million (even though she had refused that same amount when offered to her in 1980), (then later on down the road when Trump came up to her asking she refused her own price).
She blamed Trump personally for some damage done to her roof by the construction company that had the job of disassembling that steel structure that Guccione had built OVER her house.
The construction company took ownership of the damage, and offered to pay her $90,000 to have repairs. She refused. She wanted more and she wanted to sue Trump in the bargain. The judge wouldn’t go for that. Eventually she took the $90,000 because she was so far in arrears on her property taxes that she was in immediate danger of having the house foreclosed for unpaid taxes.
Superior Court Judge Richard Williams said the attempt by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to take the property for a new parking lot and a public park at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino was flawed because it did not guarantee that the company would not later use the land simply to expand the business. Yet, Trump never did do anything with that land he had the structure removed from except build a parking lot AND a landscaped public green-space.