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Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry recommended that Dragol-job Cetkovic, whom she said acted out of "the depths of despair," serve his sentence at a psychiatric prison...
...long ago, in fact, that I was having lunch one fine autumnal afternoon with Donald Trump at the Four Seasons. The beige and russet of his handsomely cut tweed jacket seemed to echo, sartorially, the earth tones in the wind-swept, dying grass outside the window. "I will do anything for money," he confided. "But I must have money--huge, pointlessly huge amounts of it." I still grow nostalgic when I think of that afternoon. Someday, quite soon in fact, his eternal soul will be mine to torture for endless centuries above a pit of burning sulfer...
Anyone who is tired of hearing about Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump's latest megadeal or his timely escape, unscathed, from the stock-market crash may have felt a certain satisfaction last week. According to FTC: Watch, a biweekly newsletter that reports on the Federal Trade Commission, the agency has asked the Justice Department to prosecute the New York developer for illegal use of a "parking agreement." Under such an arrangement, a corporate raider employs one or more third parties, like an investment bank, to help him secretly amass shares in a takeover target in violation of federal law. Trump...
...developers. Koch has coddled builders with tax breaks while their towering, ego-driven projects block out the sun, overload already groaning services and paralyze traffic. Celebrities like Jacqueline Onassis, Henry Kissinger and Paul Newman have joined hundreds of West Side residents in protests against skyscrapers proposed by Builders Donald Trump and Mortimer Zuckerman. Bowing to public pressure, Zuckerman has offered to scale down his 68-story tower, which would cast shadows across Central Park. NBC has backed away from Trump's proposed Television City, probably killing his dream for the world's tallest building: 150 stories that would throw morning...
Take Donald Trump. Trump, who in 1980 pulled down and smashed a set of art deco bas reliefs from an old Fifth Avenue building ("They were stones with some engravings on them"), says today that "a lot of times preservation is used as an excuse to stop progress" and "as a method of stopping anybody from progressing a city." Trump's current idea of "progressing a city" is to put up a set of nine gigantic high-rise towers, among them the tallest building in the world, on Manhattan's old Upper West Side...