You'd think Donald Trump would have learned his lesson. In the earlyrn1990s, the gambling and real estate czar nearly lost his empire after an acquisitions binge left his three New Jersey casinos in bankruptcy. After negotiating with creditors, he began to climb back, winning enough confidence from investors so that by 1995 he could sell $130 million of stock in his Trump Plaza casino to the public. But then Trump got greedy again. Over the next year, his public company borrowed heavily to pick up his two privately held casinos at what many industry watchers considered rich prices. "I was offered a lot of money, and I took it," Trump says today. "You can quote me on that."
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