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- X BUSINESS, Page 60Business NotesGAMBLINGChips from the Old Block
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- Cash-strapped Donald Trump surprised all the experts last
- December when he came up with an $18.4 million bond payment on
- his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City. At the time, Trump
- explained that the casino got an infusion of a "relatively
- small amount of money." Relative is right. The Wall Street
- Journal reported last week that Trump's 85-year-old father
- Fred, a megarich developer based in Brooklyn, dispatched a
- lawyer in December to buy $3 million worth of chips at Trump
- Castle, in effect giving Donald a loan. Last week the younger
- Trump would acknowledge only that "a group bought some chips,
- and that's not a totally unstandard thing." According to casino
- regulators, this would mean they will have to evaluate whoever
- bought the chips to determine whether the individuals are
- legally qualified to be investors in the casino business.
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