Tribune Tavern, Restaurant at Center of Massive Scam, Suddenly Closes

[TexasTowelie]

OAKLAND -- The Tribune Tavern, a restaurant founded by embattled businessman Tom Henderson at the base of the Tribune Tower, mysteriously closed late last week.

The restaurant appears to still be owned by Henderson’s company, San Francisco Regional Center, according to state records, and therefore under the control of a receiver appointed by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg. However, it does not appear from court filings that Seeborg ordered the business closed.

Reports on social media indicated the restaurant closed for good on Friday. It was closed and locked during lunch hours today, but nothing was posted indicating why it was closed.

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Henderson’s companies were put under federal court control as part of an action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January alleging that Henderson defrauded hundreds of investors seeking visas to the United States through the controversial EB-5 visa program, as the Express reported last week.

Read more: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2017/10/30/tribune-tavern-restaurant-at-center-of-massive-scam-suddenly-closes

[HeartachesNhangovers]

1. That's too bad - the Tribune Tavern was

part of the wave of restaurants that opened to accommodate all the economic refugees from San Francisco who moved to Oakland over the last 10 years or so. As far as food goes, it was nothing special - steaks & fries, good salads, pretty nice cocktails - but it had a good location close to BART, an interesting, historic building (the Tribune moved to an anonymous mid-rise outside downtown), and was a good place to meet people coming from San Francisco.