Trumps America: Hotel Hell at Trumps Tower in Panama

[Judi Lynn]

Trump’s America: Hotel Hell at Trump’s Tower in Panama
The majority owner of a Trump International Hotel & Tower is desperately trying to rid the condo-hotel of any connection to Donald Trump.
By
Ellis Henican
Published : February 25, 2018 | Updated : February 25, 2018



I have seen the future of the Trump presidency. It features an eviction notice, a document shredder and a bunch of agitated people peppering each other with angry insults. Kinda like the White House on a calm day!

You’re probably still trying to make sense of Donald Trump’s crazed solution for all these mass shootings in schools — more guns in the classroom! Me, I’ve been gazing south, past Florida, to the Latin American nation of Panama, where the majority owner of the Trump International Hotel & Tower is desperately trying to rid the condo-hotel of any connection to Donald Trump.

No, Trump doesn’t actually own this “Trump” tower. He didn’t design or build it. He just slapped his name on the place and let his people run it, which they’ve been doing abysmally, it seems. Like a Trump, you might say.

Anyway, a Miami businessman named Orestes Fintiklis bought up 202 of the hotel’s 369 rooms at fire-sale prices last fall, noticing that hardly anyone in Panama wanted to stay somewhere named “Trump.” On Thursday, Fintiklis showed up at the failing hotel with an eviction notice, demanding the Trump Organization management team hand over the keys. They refused, locked themselves in an office and, from the sound of things in the hallway, started shoveling piles of paper into the shredding machine. The police were called. At one point, the power was turned off. There was a lot of yelling in the lobby and the hallways.

More:
https://www.metro.us/news/todays-debate/trumps-america-trump-hotel-tower-panama

Editorials and other articles:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016202220

[Judi Lynn]

1. Trump Organization execs are holed up in Trump Tower Panama shredding documents

Trump Organization execs are holed up in Trump Tower Panama shredding documents

Facing eviction and trailed by allegations of money laundering, a group of Trump Hotel executives are physically barring the hotel’s ownership group from kicking them out.

Drew Millard
FEB—24—2018 02:45PM EST

It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump’s business career has led him into some shady shit. Last November, the news broke that Alexandre Nogueira, the Brazilian businessman who in 2007 helped facilitate funding for the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, had secured investments related to the project — Trump’s first international hotel property — from, among others, a convicted Columbian money-launderer, suspected human trafficker from the Ukraine, and a Russian dude who once did five years in an Israeli prison for kidnapping somebody. Additionally, it was reported that Norueira pocketed deposits on some units in the building, double-sold others, and is currently under investigation in Brazil for laundering money himself.

On Saturday, February 24, the Associated Press reported that executives from the Trump Organization, involved with the management of the building, are refusing to comply with a termination notice levied by the hotel’s owners’ association. Instead, according to the AP, “Trump’s 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.”

The report also notes that:

Elsewhere in the building, the hotel owners’ team and its allies were barred by Trump Hotel staff from entering the room containing the building’s 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.

More:
https://theoutline.com/post/3526/trump-executives-holed-up-in-trump-tower-panama-money-laundering?zd=1&zi=qza3m74q