Trump received more than $44 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation during his time at the company, filings show. The public company paid her $188,861 in cash and stock awards that year, filings show. Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor Trump has called a friend, took control of the public company this year. (Kathy Willens/AP)It was promoted as the chance of a lifetime: Mom-and-pop investors could buy shares in celebrity businessman Donald Trump’s first public company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts. Despite losing money every year under Trump’s leadership, the company paid Trump handsomely, including a $5 million bonus in the year the company’s stock plummeted 70 percent.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2016 19:32 UTC