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catbyte

(34,409 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 04:32 PM Oct 2019

New Jersey looking to pull Trump golf club liquor licenses after drunk patron caused fatal car crash

Note: I'm quoting Raw Story to avoid the WP paywall for those with a subscription. I thought the story was interesting enough to share.

By Brad Reed

The state of New Jersey is looking to revoke the liquor licenses from at least one of President Donald Trump’s golf clubs in the state after one of its patrons caused a fatal accident while driving under the influence.

The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reports that the Trump golf course in Colts Neck, N.J. has received a letter from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal that accuses it of over-serving alcohol to a patron named Andrew G. Halder, who went on to cause a vehicular wreck that wound up killing his own father.

According to Fahrenthold, the damage done by the revocation of the Colts Neck License could go far beyond just one club.

“Under New Jersey law, anyone who has one liquor license revoked must also give up all their other liquor licenses for two years,” he writes. “Trump has two other New Jersey golf clubs, including the one in Bedminster, N.J., that he uses as a summer White House.”

Here's a link to the full Washington Post story for those who want to access it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nj-seeks-to-revoke-liquor-license-for-one-of-trumps-golf-clubs-triggered-by-a-case-in-which-a-customer-caused-a-fatal-car-crash/2019/10/24/0fbba6ca-f669-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html




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New Jersey looking to pull Trump golf club liquor licenses after drunk patron caused fatal car crash (Original Post) catbyte Oct 2019 OP
Sweet! Perfect to bait Trump into getting in the middle of that! No way he can let them do brewens Oct 2019 #1
Drunk driving is so horrible for all involved. We had a local bar owner riversedge Oct 2019 #2
Nothing Burger. Xolodno Oct 2019 #3
Not a Nothing Burger. It caused a fatal accident. It wasn't some ordinary DUI catbyte Oct 2019 #4
Wasn't trying to downplay the loss of life due to the DUI. Xolodno Oct 2019 #5
Losing a liquor license means losing a lot of profit. no_hypocrisy Oct 2019 #6

brewens

(13,598 posts)
1. Sweet! Perfect to bait Trump into getting in the middle of that! No way he can let them do
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 04:37 PM
Oct 2019

their job and shut him down.

riversedge

(70,248 posts)
2. Drunk driving is so horrible for all involved. We had a local bar owner
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 04:47 PM
Oct 2019

lose his license for this reason for a year--but he had been given a warning 6 months earlier. Bar survived barely because it did serve Friday fish fries--had a good cook. But he learned his lesson

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
3. Nothing Burger.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 04:49 PM
Oct 2019

Unfortunately, this happens quite often. If this is a first time offense, nothing will happen other than the insurance provider shelling out. It's repeat offenders that get the license revoked. The worst that could happen is the bartender gets fired...and that's if he is found negligent.

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
5. Wasn't trying to downplay the loss of life due to the DUI.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 05:07 PM
Oct 2019

...a guy gets a promotion at work, he and his buddies decide to celebrate. He has nine Irish Car Bombs....yes nine. Then a few other shots. And his buddies let him get behind the wheel, who then later runs over a person on a bicycle. The person on the bicycle was going to his second job, he sold his car to help pay for his daughters tuition, and his second job was also to help support her. She was first in the family to get to college.

Insurance company I worked for automatically decided to pay max limits. The president of the division even had legal look into how we could pay more. The policy was cancelled....but the Restaurant/Bar was not, first time offense. Bartender was fired and they got a new carrier the next day.

The news headline is the nothing burger. Sensationalized hype because its connected to Trump. There is a lot to get angry with Trump, this isn't one of them. This a symptom of the system, not Trump. Long after he's gone, this problem will still be there.

no_hypocrisy

(46,130 posts)
6. Losing a liquor license means losing a lot of profit.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 05:19 PM
Oct 2019

Hospitality/Restaurants depend more upon liquor sales for solvency than serving food.

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