Witnesses told the AP they saw Trump's executives carrying files to a room for shredding.

[kpete]

from yesterday:

PANAMA CITY (AP) — One of President Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s executives carrying files to a room for shredding.


Representatives of the hotel owners’ association formally sought to fire Trump’s 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 property’s 369 hotel units. 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, according to two witnesses aligned with the owners. The legal complaint also accused Trump’s 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 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.

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https://apnews.com/ce4dbdd4446c4862bb9c483425554c67 …

[BigmanPigman]

1. I read Walter Shaub and immediately felt a sense of relief!

Whew..he is the former head of Ethics from under Obama. If he is onto this than I am sure other current govt officials (like those associated with Mueller) are well aware of it too.

[Stonepounder]

2. Another article on this on WaPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/police-yelling-power-turned-off-confrontation-over-trumps-panama-hotel-escalates/2018/02/24/a14ed948-19cc-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.846571248ee7

Police, yelling, power turned off: Confrontation over Trump’s Panama hotel escalates

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The dispute began in November, when Fintiklis — whose firm had bought 202 of the hotel’s 369 units last year, and who now heads the condo owners’ association — sought to terminate the Trump Organization as the hotel’s managers. The Trump Organization’s contract won’t be up until 2031.

But Fintiklis argued that Trump’s company had effectively broken the terms of its contract by allowing the hotel to fall into poor condition, and for allowing its occupancy rate to decline rapidly. Owners in the hotel have confirmed that the hotel seems to be losing business, noting that their individual shares of the revenue have declined — or even disappeared.

They said part of the problem was Trump’s unpopularity in Latin America.

“It’s a bloodbath, basically. It’s a financial bloodbath,” Jeffrey Rabiea, a New York businessman who owns three hotel rooms in the Trump Panama hotel, said last month. “Nobody wants to go there. If you’ve got a Marriott and a Hyatt and a Trump, you’re not going to Trump.”

[lindysalsagal]

3. This attempt at a takeover by Orestes Fintiklis a Cypriot businessman based in Miami

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What happens in cyprus, stays in cyprus.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Cypress is a tree

[Honeycombe8]

5. Holy crap. I'm more convinced than ever that the Trump org operates like the mob. nt