This money is a separate issue from construction costs, Trump aides said.Ībout 70 contractors will meet Tuesday to discuss whether to continue negotiations with Trump or to file suit to collect money owed them, in some cases for work dating to February, according to some of those organizing the meeting. Vendors of supplies are owed as much as $15 million, according to Trump insiders. An attorney for one contractor said that a total of $72.8 million was owed to all firms that worked on the construction and that Trump had proposed paying these bills off over five years. Most of the money is owed to contractors on the unfinished building, according to contractors, regulators and Trump executives. The growing pile of unpaid bills at Donald Trump's Taj Mahal Casino Resort is approaching $90 million just 14 weeks after it opened, prompting lawsuits, growing uncertainty among employees and concern by regulators.
