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- <title>
- June 25, 1990: Business Notes:Debt
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- DEBT
- Donald the Deadbeat
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Donald Trump showed his bankers last week that he can still
- play a mean game of chicken. The embattled developer disclosed
- that he failed to pay at least $30 million that was due Friday
- on bonds issued by his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City.
- His missed payment could lead to default, which in turn could
- push all or part of Trump's holdings into bankruptcy. He knows
- his bankers want to avoid that, since it could leave them with
- a lot of hard-to-sell real estate in New York and New Jersey.
- </p>
- <p> Trump, who has a ten-day grace period to make his bond
- payment, may be trying to increase the pressure on his bankers
- in their negotiations to restructure his $2 billion debt load.
- Four major New York City banks have already agreed on a
- proposal that would extend him an additional $60 million to
- meet payment deadlines. But some of the smaller New Jersey
- banks reportedly balked at the terms because they felt they
- were taking on too much risk under the new arrangement.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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