Investigation Report: Donald J. Trump

This primary source from New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement supports 20 claims across 15 ledger entries.

Publisher: New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement
Published: 1992-04-15
Source quality: primary

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The audit supplies government-attributed evidence that an accounting change reduced public rent receipts; the hotel partnership disputed parts of the city's analysis.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Grand Hyatt accounting-method change: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Trump's partnership operated the hotel and was responsible for the challenged accounting.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Grand Hyatt accounting-method change: The record · The record
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City auditors concluded that the change lowered the rent due to New York City.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Grand Hyatt accounting-method change: Who paid · Who paid
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The audit contradicts an account of unqualified administrative performance, but the partnership contested the findings and the candidate does not treat the audit as a criminal adjudication.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Grand Hyatt city audit and back-rent dispute: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The hotel partnership disputed the audit conclusions, and the record cited here is not a final fraud judgment.
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Grand Hyatt city audit and back-rent dispute: Evidentiary limit · Evidentiary limit
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City auditors reviewed the hotel's rent calculations and reported missing records and accounting issues.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Grand Hyatt city audit and back-rent dispute: The record · The record
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Trump's partnership operated the hotel subject to the audited rent agreement.
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Grand Hyatt city audit and back-rent dispute: The record · The record
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Fred Trump purchased casino chips and did not gamble them, supplying cash to Trump's Castle.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump's Castle family chip transaction: The record · The record
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The transaction benefited Trump's controlled casino and came from his father.
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Trump's Castle family chip transaction: The record · The record
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The regulatory settlement documents a family transaction used to support the casino outside ordinary disclosed financing channels.
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Trump's Castle family chip transaction: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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New Jersey regulators classified the transaction as an improper loan and approved a civil penalty.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump's Castle family chip transaction: Outcome · Outcome
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The regulatory action documents discriminatory treatment at a Trump-controlled casino; the finding concerned casino management conduct rather than a personal instruction from Trump.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump Plaza patron-discrimination penalty: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The casino commission found that Trump Plaza managers accommodated a patron's discriminatory request concerning dealers.
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Trump Plaza patron-discrimination penalty: The record · The record
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Trump owned and controlled Trump Plaza when its managers committed the cited conduct.
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Trump Plaza patron-discrimination penalty: The record · The record
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The filing qualifies the claimed benefits of corporate bankruptcy because creditors absorbed revised terms even as operations continued.
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Trump Plaza casino debt restructuring: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino filed for Chapter 11 protection under negotiated terms.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump Plaza casino debt restructuring: The record · The record
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Trump owned and controlled the Plaza casino debtor.
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Trump Plaza casino debt restructuring: The record · The record
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The filing contradicts an unqualified business-success account, but the corporate restructuring preserved casino operations and was not Trump's personal bankruptcy.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump's Castle debt restructuring: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Trump's Castle filed for Chapter 11 protection as part of a creditor restructuring.
Financial stability, casino transactions, Hyatt audit, and licensing sections
Trump's Castle debt restructuring: The record · The record
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Trump owned and controlled Trump's Castle at the time of the filing.
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Trump's Castle debt restructuring: The record · The record