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- BUSINESS, Page 69Business NotesLITIGATIONHitting the Jackpot
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- If living well is the best revenge, forcing your boss to
- fork over $750,000 has got to be a close second. That is the
- amount Philadelphia-based brokerage Janney Montgomery Scott
- must pay gambling-industry analyst Marvin Roffman, according
- to a decision last week by a New York Stock Exchange
- arbitration panel. Roffman's complaint: that Janney had fired
- him as a result of pressure from self-styled dealmeister Donald
- Trump.
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- When Trump launched his colossal Taj Mahal casino in
- Atlantic City a year ago, a Wall Street Journal article quoted
- a skeptical Roffman as saying that "once the cold winds blow
- from October to February, it won't make it." Trump threatened
- to sue Janney if Roffman did not apologize. The analyst
- refused, and Janney dismissed him, citing "violations of
- company policy." As for Trump, whose Taj Mahal has felt the
- cold wind and is flirting with insolvency, Roffman is suing him
- for $2 million.
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