Trump, Icahn trade barbs in Atlantic City casino fight
Most Atlantic City smackdowns involve professional wrestlers, not billionaires with legal papers, but a steel-cage match is shaping up between Carl Icahn and Donald Trump over the bankrupt Trump Entertainment casinos. The two Queens natives, jus…
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