Trump officials fight eviction from Panama hotel they manage
PANAMA CITY One of President 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.
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