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PANAMA CITY (AP) One of President Donald Trumps family businesses is battling an effort to physically evict its team of executives from a luxury hotel in Panama where they manage operations, and police have been called to keep the peace, The Associated Press has learned. Witnesses told the AP they saw Trumps executives carrying files to a room for shredding.
Representatives of the hotel owners association formally sought to fire Trumps management team Thursday by hand-delivering termination notices to them at the Trump International Hotel and Tower, according to a Panamanian legal complaint filed by Orestes Fintiklis, who controls 202 of the propertys 369 hotel units. Trumps managers retreated behind the glass walls of an office where they were seen carrying files to an area where the sounds of a shredding machine could be heard, according to two witnesses aligned with the owners. The legal complaint also accused Trumps team of improperly destroying documents.
The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity over concerns they would be drawn into an expensive and protracted legal fight.
Elsewhere in the building, the hotel owners team and its allies were barred by Trump Hotel staff from entering the room containing the buildings closed-circuit TV system as well as key computer servers for the hotel and apartments that share the property. In response, they shut off power to the room temporarily bringing down phone lines and internet connections within the building
https://apnews.com/ce4dbdd4446c4862bb9c483425554c67
Panama City is the money laundering capital of the world.
Lulu KC
(2,566 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I bet they are just framed out, no conveniences, barely any fixtures, that sold for full prices. I wonder if Mueller can take this down?
Richard Engel did a really good special on trump's condo business in Panama. It is worth the hour to watch.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)money laundering in Panama City was the first thing that sprang to mind when I read that Team Trump was shredding files.