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Hillary Buckman is the Founder and Managing Director of Ocean Media Australia - including Ocean and Sails magazine, Great Southern Route Superyacht Guide and the Ocean Club. There's plenty of energy in this episode, which Hillary and I recorded whilst enjoying a glass of Lallier Champagne on her stand at Sydney Boat Show. We have a great laugh together and even though I count Hillary as a friend I learned so much about her - so you will too. Hillary is a powerhouse in yachting media and is known for throwing lavish events which everyone always enjoys. Established in 2005 as a boutique publishing house, Ocean Media has grown into a contemporary, progressive company focused on bringing the highest-quality print and online journalism to the Australasian premium yachting industry. Her magazine “Ocean” feels divine to the touch and enhances any superyacht interior with it's graceful covers. With a dedicated in-house team and industry-leading journalists from all over the world contributing to their editions, Ocean Media pride themselves on their comprehensive editorial, exceptional design and photography, and incisive news and reviews. The Ocean Media experience extends well beyond their magazines to their presence online, which includes websites for each title, e-newsletters and social media feeds. I know you'll enjoy this episode as we explore not only Hillary's story but also current trends, challenges and insights into the yachting industry. Thanks Hills, this was fun. x All Ocean Media magazines are available online through www.oceanmedia.com.au where our latest issue and every past issue published are available in digital format. Each website is updated regularly and we are continually improving the format and content to maximise appeal to our e-readership. www.oceanmagazine.com.au / www.sailsmagazine.com.au / www.greatsouthernroute.com / www.oceanclub.international Please help us by reviewing this podcast – and subscribe to our podcast – this helps us not only extend our reach so more future Boating Industry team members can haer about our amazing industry, it also helps us secure more sponsors and thus bring YOU more content. Connect with The Boat Princess here Follow The Boat Princess on Instagram @theboatprincess
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EP261 Segment 1: Plane Crashes and Conspiracy Theories (0:00 - ~5:00) Reagan Airport Collision: A Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight collided, resulting in fatalities. Conspiracy theories abound, focusing on DEI policies and the female pilot's connection to the Biden administration. The host emphasizes the tragedy and cautions against jumping to conclusions. The official explanation of a continuity of government drill is mentioned. Philly Plane Crash: An air ambulance from Mexico crashed in Northeast Philly, initially sparking missile attack fears. It was confirmed to be an air ambulance with six fatalities. The massive explosion raises questions about the cargo. Segment 2: Dank DeMoss vs. Lyft (~5:00 - 15:00) The Incident: Dank DeMoss (Big Dank), a plus-size hip-hop artist, is suing Lyft after a driver refused her service. The driver cited concerns about his tires and the car's capacity. The Debate: The host discusses the complexities of the situation, acknowledging DeMoss's weight while also pointing out the driver's poor handling of the situation. The host criticizes the driver for mentioning the tires, suggesting he should have simply cancelled the ride. Legal Angle: DeMoss's lawyers argue that weight is a protected characteristic in Michigan, making the driver's refusal discriminatory. The host discusses the driver's right to refuse service for various reasons, but emphasizes the importance of tact. Outlier Discussion: The host uses the term "outlier" to describe DeMoss's size and compares it to anorexia, noting that both conditions are rare and can lead to social challenges. The host questions DeMoss's choice of vehicles in the past, showing photos of her in large SUVs. Host's Opinion: The host believes the driver should have cancelled the ride discreetly instead of making comments about weight. The host questions why DeMoss didn't order a larger vehicle like an Uber XL. Segment 3: Barrett Jackson Reflections (15:00 - end) Barrett Jackson Experience: The host talks about the personal value of Barrett Jackson beyond the cars themselves. It's an opportunity to connect with friends from out of town. Relationship Building: The host emphasizes how relationships have developed through Barrett Jackson, citing Jane D'Amelio as the connection point for many of these friendships. The story of meeting Daryl, a Barrett Jackson VIP, through a Cody Walker charity auction is shared. The Value of Connections: The host talks about hanging out with friends at Barrett Jackson, including Jason Day, Peter Cunningham, Colin Comer, and others. The importance of shared experiences and deeper conversations is highlighted. Dinner with Jason Day: The host recounts a memorable dinner with Jason Day and others at Mastro's Ocean Club, where they had meaningful conversations beyond the usual Barrett Jackson interactions. The discussion included topics like the most famous person they'd met and moments of happiness. Famous Encounters: The host shares stories of meeting celebrities like Jay Leno and Adam Carolla, emphasizing the difference between brief encounters and genuine interactions. The host's personal "most famous person" story involves Adam Carolla. Outro: The episode concludes with the host reflecting on the value of relationships and the unique experiences that Barrett Jackson provides. Mentioned in this episode: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/luigi-mangione-inspired-trump-cabinet-threat/6131203/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-person-car-dead-air-ambulance-carrying-pediatric-patient-5-others-rcna189991https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vPyWoGgSU&list=RDNS75vPyWoGgSU&start_radio=1 Contact Hard Parking with Jhae Pfenning: email: HardParkingPodcast@gmail.com Website: www.Hardparkingpod.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/hardparkingpodcast/ Instagram: instagram.com/hardparkingpod/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hardparking
Interview with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto ! Part 4 hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander's partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions. Their live shows are, to put it mildly, intense. Danielle specializes in unusual instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy, the auto harp and the cemence besides playing the violin and piano; Alexander is master of the bass, guitar and drums. Together they create beautiful, existentialistic, acoustic soundscapes, which roar and vibrate simultaneously leaving their audiences shaken but overjoyed. Danielle, author of two books, writes most of their lyrics, be it the poetic spoken word moments or the momentous choirs they compose together. Alexander Hacke, an excellent throat singer and vocalist, growls his grnarly, rumbling cries that float eerily over their nomadic desert drones, with screeching birds, bees or wild wind accompanying slow, heavy riffs that start as a whisper and end in a volcanic, rolling wave of apocalyptic frenzy. The collage of this mixed with melancholic, translucent harmonies, very heavy & low bass chords, and electronics are a mesmerizing universe of sound and emotion which has generated an ever growing group of enthusiastic listeners. The Best of hackedepicciotto (Live in Napoli) showcases live interpretations of music from across their career. The album includes reinterpretations of tracks from all of their studio albums: Keepsakes (2023), a tender exploration of friendship and loss, The Silver Threshold (2021), their defiant reaction to the pandemic, Perseverantia (2016), which dealt with the artists nomadic lifestyle, Menetekel (2017), which embodies their collective despair at the state of the world, and powerful energy of The Current (2020), recorded by the Irish Sea. Hackedepicciotto's Info https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/ Hear The Current here https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/
Today on the show I have Bill Koenig from The Spy Command on to break down minute 28 of Casino Royale. After Bill I speak to Edward from Davidoff on Jermyn Street and he regales some stories about Roger Moore Richard Kiel and Harold Sakata.
Today on the show I have Bill Koenig from The Spy Command on to break down minute 28 of Casino Royale. After Bill I speak to Edward from Davidoff on Jermyn Street and he regales some stories about Roger Moore Richard Kiel and Harold Sakata. This show is supported by: CANYON GROUP They supplied the coffee cup robes for Brad Pitt in Fight Club.That iconic robe, they are now back in stock. Use TAILORS LOVE and get a 15% discount on their website. You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter so you don't miss a second of Bond. https://fromtailorswithlove.co.uk/newsletter
The hurdles we must overcome to be successful as restaurateurs are daunting at best, but what does it look like in the most extreme cases? Today we chat with Chef Jarad McCaroll of the Ocean Club located in the Caribbean Islands. With stiff competition, high expenses, and scarce resources this is easily one of the most challenging restaurant environments in the world. Jarad sits down to share how they've overcome these obstacles and many more to thrive and expand stateside. For more information on the chef and his restaurant, visit https://oceanclubstbarths.com/. ____________________________________________________ Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time. We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other content: Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts Restaurant expert videos & webinars
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The allure of St. Barths lies in its intimate, exclusive atmosphere. How does the Ocean Club cater to both a discerning clientele seeking high-end service and a vibrant, engaging dining environment that makes them feel welcome and included? In this episode, Adam Torres and Jarad McCarroll, Co-Founder of Ocean Club St Barths, explore Ocean Club St Barths and the upcoming expansion to open Ocean Club Montauk.Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be a guest on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/Visit our website:https://missionmatters.com/Support the showMore FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia
The allure of St. Barths lies in its intimate, exclusive atmosphere. How does the Ocean Club cater to both a discerning clientele seeking high-end service and a vibrant, engaging dining environment that makes them feel welcome and included? In this episode, Adam Torres and Jarad McCarroll, Co-Founder of Ocean Club St Barths, explore Ocean Club St Barths and the upcoming expansion to open Ocean Club Montauk. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be a guest on our podcast: https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/ Visit our website: https://missionmatters.com/ More FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia
[VARNING FÖR KÄNSLIGA LYSSNARE]Kate och Gerry McCann och deras tre barn - Madeleine, Amelie och Sean - anländer till Portugal för en semester på Ocean Club-komplexet i Praia da Luz Lördagen den 28 April 2007.På kvällarna som följer går paret tillsammans med andra vuxna och äter middag på resortens tapasrestaurang ungefär 50 meter från där McCanns barn sover.Dagen innan hemfärd försvinner Madeleine, och det är bara början på vad som ska visa sig bli ett av världens mest omtalade och uppmärksammade fall.Bilden på första "barnpassnings-schemat":https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/998982417400467478/1206937639844847616/barnpassningtidslinje1.jpg?ex=65ddd345&is=65cb5e45&hm=1caae512eb51865b96490f8e6d1440ce3eca3d46d9a18abe1c654a96872cfabb&Bilden på när "barnpassnings-schemat" 24 timmar senare:https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1206938832101056533/barnpassningtidslinje2.jpg?ex=65ddd461&is=65cb5f61&hm=f9b4627e56c18777a4b92f59e17f89509ea91370b026a369a01be3d0527b6f4f&=&format=webpSängen som mamman "tittade" under:https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1206938832470147102/kanintetittaundersangenmccann.jpg?ex=65ddd461&is=65cb5f61&hm=d426d6c481728f5e8d1783b3f86b11ad7edd79a22986b4aa43e1e2b5bf036bb6&=&format=webpPolisbilderna från hur rummet såg ut:https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1208422630651207720/mccannshotellrum.jpg?ex=65e33a46&is=65d0c546&hm=8ae5c19d36c9733144bf85320af64ff475d2f3a4eacd47a67dee6fa022650da7&=&format=webphttps://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1208422630886211624/mccannshotellrum1.jpg?ex=65e33a46&is=65d0c546&hm=1e8538b16082b8da83e4dfaa8870507a63a4e9021ae3a6cdca701860c08d643a&=&format=webphttps://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1208422631137607750/mccannshotellrum2.jpg?ex=65e33a46&is=65d0c546&hm=6ad472c590db9655d0c4be33d071eb1157da1472b24e0428f299b3cb71cf1974&=&format=webphttps://media.discordapp.net/attachments/998982417400467478/1208422702923390986/mccannshotellrumbalkongdorr.jpg?ex=65e33a57&is=65d0c557&hm=6e942c1dd3e356e2af7ce7602ec2da65f27e7f4b0a57a1243816503cb1aae477&=&format=webpKvinnan med flickan på ryggen i Atlas-bergen: https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NINTCHDBPICT000003639932.jpgSkissen som är slående likt Ghislaine Maxwell: https://www.thesteepletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ghislaine-Maxwell-Madeleine-McCann.pngLänk till BookBeat för 50 dagar gratis lyssning:https://www.bookbeat.se/promocode?kod=mystiskafall&fbclid=IwAR3V-Fl7e2Nr16CqZt-WMngZJJj_CR5dr_yoFl84nlZ4DT7z_SopeI9OqoYLåt mystiken klä dig!https://mystiskafall.myspreadshop.se/Kontakta oss: mystiskafall@outlook.comHitta oss på sociala medier!Instagram: mystiskafallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2349054751980603 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Berlin-based avant-garde duo hackedepicciotto have returned with Keepsakes, their fifth full length studio album. Keepsakes is the duo's second album released on Mute, and was recorded at one of Europe's oldest recording spaces, the Neapolitan studio Auditorium Novecento. Inspired by the space, which was home to Caruso and Morricone, the new compositions feature tubular bells and a grand piano within their signature sound of a symphonic drone. hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander's partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions. Hackedepicciotto's Info https://www.hackedepicciotto.de https://twitter.com/hackedpicciotto https://www.instagram.com/hackedepicciotto/ https://www.facebook.com/hackepicciotto/ http://mute.com/
The boys experience actual Fine Dining for once! The You-Must Bowl forces Michael to wear a suit made entirely of Pokémon cards to Mastro's Ocean Club Garrett details the history of Mastro's in Resty Fact Round-Up (Yeehaw!) Learn about Japanese vs. American wagyu, and the different classifications of beef grading Hands-down the greatest service experienced so far on this podcast Romantic music puts Michael and Garrett in a mood JUB will recalibrate your ratings scale Alcohol served with...interesting implements Music by: James McEnelly (@Ramshackle_Music) Theme Song by: Kyle Schieffer (@JazzyJellyfish) We're on Patreon! Get an extra episode every month, extended Yelp from Strangers segments every other week, merch discounts, download access to our music including the 7 singles from our Olive Garden musical, and more! Patreon Producers: Sean Spademan & Sue Ornelas Get our 5 Survival Tips for Casual Dining at www.finediningpodcast.com! Send us your Mastro's stories at finediningpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @finediningpodcast Let us know where we should go next by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodcastAddict, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. We read every one! Next time on Fine Dining: Shakey's Pizza Parlor! If you have ever worked for Shakey's and have a story to share, send it to finediningpodcast@gmail.com.
The boys are joined by the delightful VyVy Nguyen! The You-Must Bowl forces Michael to consume his entire meal at Sizzler using only spoons Garrett plays Michael and VyVy a Sizzler commercial from 1991 Dessert pictures are catfishing unsuspecting customers Sex eyes are the only acceptable eyes to have in a Sizzler An ASMR Sizzler birthday soundscape, performed by VyVy Garrett pulls out the Fine Dining Bylaws to address Michael cheating at his You-Must Bowl punishment JUB welched on a bet once too Shrimp. Shrimp! SHRIMP! VyVy forces Michael & Garrett to spend a lot of money for the next episode... Music by: James McEnelly (@Ramshackle_Music) Theme Song by: Kyle Schieffer (@JazzyJellyfish) We're on Patreon! Get an extra episode every month, extended Yelp from Strangers segments every other week, merch discounts, download access to our music including the 7 singles from our Olive Garden musical, and more! Patreon Producers: Sean Spademan & Sue Ornelas Get our 5 Survival Tips for Casual Dining at www.finediningpodcast.com! Send us your Sizzler stories at finediningpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @finediningpodcast Let us know where we should go next by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodcastAddict, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. We read every one! Next time on Fine Dining: Mastro's Ocean Club! If you have ever worked for Mastro's and have a story to share, send it to finediningpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to Paradise Island! This week, I'm inviting you into my hotel room at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort in Paradise Island Nassau, Bahamas. After 11 years, I'm returning to The Bahamas, a place that holds so many memories from family vacations to senior year Spring Break in High School. On this episode, I'm flying across the country to surprise my family and exploring not one, but two hotels. From dinners at Atlantis followed by gambling at the Casino all night long to daydreaming about mega yachts, this episode has it all! You won't want to miss the bluest water and whitest sand the Caribbean has to offer. Tune in and discover if these chicken fingers meet my harsh standards during The Strip Down. Don't forget to subscribe, rate us, and leave a review. Follow us on Instagram at the links below for more When In Robes action and exclusive clips! Follow the Podcast:Instagram: @WhenInRobesPod TikTok: @WhenInRobesPod Twitter: @WhenInRobesPod Follow the Host: Instagram: @CarlyKonsker
Chris hangs out with Andy Haynes, Josh Day and Wilfred Padua for a night. Tonight he has a contest at The Burren and will fill us in on the results next week. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: 3 names added to the May 19, 2022 show at KOC Charlestown. Only way to find out who is by listening. Chris misses Ocean Club at Marina Bay. The Lakers miss the playoffs but at least there's Winning Time on HBO MAX! Chris is in the show Julia, but not visible. Lets talk about it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chris-robblee/message
Vartannat år arrangerar SWEA international tillsammans med en av våra sjuttio avdelningar ett världsmöte. Tanken är att alla medlemmar i SWEA ska få möjlighet att träffas under några dagar och delta i föreläsningar med intressanta personer men också hinna med att socialisera med varandra IRL — “in real life”. Och inget år har det väl varit så efterlängtat som 2022, efter alla mödor och isolering under Covid 19-pandemin. Så blev det då äntligen dags för ett efterlängtat världsmöte. Hösten 2021 som var den ursprungliga planen blev framflyttad till sista helgen i april 2022. Men hur går det till att planera ett världsmöte och vad har alla som åker till Florida att se fram emot under dagarna i Fort Lauderdale? Föreläsningar med Sverigefrämjande som tema, workshops, men även flera spännande middagar, sightseeing i Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Everglades och efterresa till Key West allra längst ner i söder. Vi går igenom programmet och allt som du som deltar behöver tänka på. Samtalet handlar också om hur det är att bo i soliga Florida, en av de stater i USA som växer och har ca. 40 000 svenskar. Vi får lyssna till Viktoria Riley, vår VM-general och SWEA Floridas ordförande, som berättar om sitt spännande arbete som marknadsansvarig för Ocean Club, Four Seasons på Bahamas. Mia Haker, webbansvarig och VM-kassör, berättar historien om hur hon hamnade just i södra Florida. Allt du behöver veta om SWEAs Världsmöte i Ft Lauderdale finns i detta avsnitt av SWEA-podden! SWEAs Världsmöte hemsida https://vm2022.swea.org/ SWEAs Världsmöte Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sweavm SWEA Världsmöte deltagare, sluten grupp för deltagare under världsmötet https://www.facebook.com/groups/sweavm2022deltagare/ SWEA Världsmöte på Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sweavm SWEA Florida https://florida.swea.org/ Läs mer on Ft Lauderdale https://www.sunny.org/
Interview with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto ! hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander's partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions. Their live shows are, to put it mildly, intense. Danielle specializes in unusual instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy, the auto harp and the cemence besides playing the violin and piano; Alexander is master of the bass, guitar and drums. Together they create beautiful, existentialistic, acoustic soundscapes, which roar and vibrate simultaneously leaving their audiences shaken but overjoyed. Danielle, author of two books, writes most of their lyrics, be it the poetic spoken word moments or the momentous choirs they compose together. Alexander Hacke, an excellent throat singer and vocalist, growls his grnarly, rumbling cries that float eerily over their nomadic desert drones, with screeching birds, bees or wild wind accompanying slow, heavy riffs that start as a whisper and end in a volcanic, rolling wave of apocalyptic frenzy. The collage of this mixed with melancholic, translucent harmonies, very heavy & low bass chords, and electronics are a mesmerizing universe of sound and emotion which has generated an ever growing group of enthusiastic listeners. Hackedepicciotto's Info https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/ https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/
We're really privileged to have Cameron Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, the CRM Group on this episode. And he is no stranger to anyone in central Ohio. And now Cameron Mitchell Restaurants are breaking out on the national scene, with restaurants from coast to coast. We're going to hear more about his success, his origins, where it all came from, and some of the challenges that they have in the restaurant industry today. And we'll get Cameron's take on the 10 most controversial restaurant policies. Cameron Mitchell Restaurants (CMR) will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022, and Mitchell has enjoyed success as a lifelong entrepreneur, accomplished businessman, culinary expert and nationally recognized restaurateur. Cameron has been a much-needed voice for the industry, pushing for PPP loan amendments for the hospitality sector, being appointed as one of 18 CEO's on Ohio Governor DeWine's Economic Recovery Task Force, collaborating with the Cleveland Clinic to create a company-wide safety protocol, writing op-eds for national hospitality trade publications, and appearing on national television representing not only CMR, but other independent restaurant companies. With an entrepreneur's energy, vision and passion, Mitchell's sights are set on the development of new restaurant concepts, and the expansion of concepts currently in his company's portfolio, particularly Ocean Prime (known in Columbus, OH, as Mitchell's Ocean Club). Plans include the continued introduction of this concept in major metropolitan markets throughout the United States. Among his service to numerous local charities and committees in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his family, is his dedication to The United Way, Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation, and the Columbus State Community College Foundation. Cameron chaired the capital campaign, led by his $3.5 million donation, towards the newly opened Mitchell Hall, a $40 million, state-of-the-art Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts School at Columbus State. He is also an active member of the Young President's Gold Organization, the Columbus Partnership, and he serves on the board of directors of the charter school, KIPP Columbus. The Driving the Cbus podcast co-hosts, Scott McComb, CEO of Heartland Bank and Kailyn Bucklew (McComb), a third-generation community banker, offer two different perspectives as they sit down and get real with local business owners. From well-established companies to startups, small businesses are the heart and soul of Columbus. Tune in to find out how it all began, what keeps them up at night – the current struggles they face, and what successes they are most proud of with some entertaining stories along the way.
Vi har de siste ukene gått inn i Madeleine McCanns forsvinning, og sett nærmere på hva som skjedde på Ocean Club i Praia Da Luz kvelden hun forsvant i 2007. Pernille, Axel og Johan diskuterer sesongen som har vært og svarer på spørsmål fra lytterne. Hør nye episoder av denne podkasten reklamefritt i appen vår Untold: https://untold.app/podcast/ac57cca3-9d4a-4aea-87ba-eb69d9cf4d82/truecrimepodden-dokumentar
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Donald Contursi, president of Lip Smacking Foodie Tours, talks with Alan Fine of Insider Travel Report about hosting commissionable VIP dining experiences, including dinner, lunch, brunch and a drinking tour, where guests visit four top venues, tasting three to four signature dishes at each one, all led by highly knowledgeable tour guides. Contursi describes a tour that visited ARIA Resort & Casino and its restaurants Catch, Bardot Brasserie and Javier's, as well as Mastro's Ocean Club at CityCenter, where guests enjoy flamed sushi, bubbling cocktails and more. For more information, visit www.lipsmackingfoodietours.com. If interested, the original video of this podcast -- with supplemental pictures and video -- can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.
Monty & Jake are talking about an incredible weekend for the Utah Jazz, who beat the Denver Nuggets & Houston Rockets! How do the Utah Jazz keep Bojan Bogdanovic playing at a high level with Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley return to the lineup? Bojan Bogdanovic scored 48 points against the Denver Nuggets and single handedly led the Utah Jazz to a win, can Bogdanovic continue to play this well during the NBA Playoffs? Should we expect the Utah Jazz the run the table with games at Golden State, home for the Portland Trailblazers, and then finishing at OKC and Sacramento? The Los Angeles Lakers blowout the Phoenix Suns, and Monty wonders if the Phoenix Suns are out of gas. The Denver Nuggets have lost two in a row to the Utah Jazz and Brooklyn Nets, are the Denver Nuggets championship quality? Do any of these games mean anything in the NBA Playoffs? Luka Doncic was ejected after hitting Cleveland Cavaliers guard Collin Sexton in the groin. The guys discuss where Luka Doncic stands and why the Dallas Mavericks should be concerned about their star! LaMello Ball battled his brother Lonzo Ball last night, and Jake says it's pretty clear one of the two Ball Brothers is a much better player! The guys went to Ruths Chris Steakhouse for Mothers Day and found it to be an ...interesting expierence compared to Mastro's Ocean Club and other prime steakhouses. Plus COVID seems to be coming back strong in certain areas of the country, including Salt Lake City. The numbers tell the tale, from variants and anti-vaxers, to those who refuse to wear a mask ...versus those who have been vaccinated and wear masks regularly! Monty and Jake announce their next giveaway, this time its going to be even bigger than the XBOX Series S, and more subscribers are going to win!
Ruhetage hin oder her, Zeit zum Träumen ist gerade jetzt wichtig und erlaubt. Von Fidschi-Inseln und Bahamas über Las Vegas und New York bis nach Dubai. Apropos Emirate bzw. FTI HAPPY V.A.E. DAYS. Vom 25.03.2021 bis einschließlich 29.03.2021 sind für den Reisezeitraum bis 18.12.2021 (letzte Rückreise) folgende zwei Gutscheincodes gültig: „HAPPY150“ oder "HAPPY200". Inhalt 00:00:35 Sicherer Hafen 00:03:53 Hilltop Estate im Laucala Island Resort, Fidschi-Inseln 00:06:10 Burj Al Arab Pooldeck 00:10:10 FTI HAPPY V.A.E. DAYS 00:13:30 Marina Bay Sands, Singapur 00:14:45 Victoria Falls Hotel, Fregate Island, Six Senses Zil Pasyon 00:18:00 The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Nassau 00:20:10 Bellagio und Ceaser's Palace 00:22:10 The Grand Penthouse im The Mark Hotel, Manhatten 00:25:45 Hotelikonen Hotel Sacher Wien, Adlon Berlin Dir stehen folgende Informationsquellen und Kontaktmöglichkeiten zur Verfügung: https://www.fti.de/service/reisehinweise.html https://www.fti.de/blog/reiseberichte-und-tipps/expertentipps/urlaub-corona-einreisebestimmungen/ Schreib uns deine Fragen, Reiseerlebnisse und Reisetipps an gluecksmomente@fti.de
Who is the dancing beach spirit? Who is the girl of the 2nd floor bathroom? Listen and find out
"AGUA" is a little trip that will make you breathe something fresh, composed by organic sounds, this downtempo track works accompanied by a warm poem talking about water, responsibility and nature. Afterwards a sweet sitar wraps you up and down linking with the beat of the beginning generating that nice atmosphere that keeps on guiding you in this nice trip until the end of the track. Release date: 04.05.2020 on Ocean Club Music
Joe Zahm “Don’t Let Them See You Sweat — The Celebrity Halo Effect" on Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind with Michael Valdes Podcast #102Joe Zahm has 60 percent of the market share in Turks & Caicos. He has represented celebrities such as Prince, Bruce Willis and Donna Karan, just to name a few and we examine the traits necessary to enter the ultra-elite world of "celebrity agent". The conversation focuses on the super luxury market, how to break into it, and how to succeed in it. More About Joe ZahmReal Estate Professional in Grace Bay, Providenciales Turks And Caicos IslandsA native Philadelphian, Joe has been involved in virtually every aspect of real estate and resort development, marketing, sales and management since he began his career as staff attorney for Keystone Resort, Colorado in 1985. After attending Denver University Executive MBA program, Joe came to the Turks and Caicos Islands in January 1989 (22 below to 82 degrees!) at the behest of a family friend to manage the now highly successful Ocean Club Resort, a condominium resort project that led the way for the concept in the region. Today, over 20 years later, Joe’s track record is among the most impressive in the jurisdiction. During Joe’s first six years at Ocean Club, he committed his efforts to the development of tourism and real estate in the Turks and Caicos Islands – leading the fish out of water lifestyle of Norman Paperman, the central character in Herman Wouk’s hilarious novel “Don’t Stop the Carnival”. He co-founded the Turks and Caicos Resort Association, served on the nation's Tourist Board, and even penned the hit island song "Beautiful By Nature." Joe went on to serve as Sales Manager for the Mansions on Grace Bay, then co-founded Point Grace, where he continued until 1998. Joe then formed Connolly Zahm Properties, which has been the vehicle for his involvement in many successful projects, including The Sands at Grace Bay, Coral Gardens, Royal West Indies, The Renaissance on Grace Bay, and more recently, Le Vele, The Villas at Grace Bay Club, The Estate at Grace Bay Club, Seven Stars, West Bay Club and Gansevoort. These projects represent the cream of development in the Turks and Caicos Islands. In his 20 years involved in real estate in these islands, Joe has managed, consulted, marketed, and brokered well over $350 Million U.S. Dollars in condominium and real estate product. Looking towards the second decade of the new century, Joe recently merged Connolly Zahm Properties with Turks & Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty to form the premier luxury real estate brand in the Turks & Caicos. Joe is also an active singer – songwriter and producer, and resides on Provo with his wife, Gosia, daughters Isabella and Aleksandra, and son Dylan. A fish out of water no more. Joe ZahmPresident / BrokerTurks & Caicos Sotheby's International Realtywww.turksandcaicossir.comC: 649.231.6188 TCIC: 610.715.0506 US More About Michael ValdesMichael Valdes is the Senior Vice President of Global Servicing for Realogy Corporation. In that role he oversees the international servicing platform for all Realogy brands including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Better Homes & Garden, Corcoran, Climb and Sotheby’s International Realty in 113 countries. He has been with Realogy in a variety of roles for the past 14 years. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Valdes was Director of Private Banking at Deutsche Bank for just under a decade where he oversaw a book of business of just under $1 billion. He has the distinction of being the first Director in the United States of Latino descent.Mr. Valdes is the Chair of the AREAA Global Advisory Board and co-host of the 2020 AREAA Global Luxury Summit. He is also a current member of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors. Additonally, he is a member of the Realogy Diversity Board as well as the Executive Chair of the ONE VOZ, Hispanic ERG for the firm. He is a former Board Member of Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach as well as the Shanti Organization in San Francisco. Michael was also a Board Member of Pink & Blue for 2, an organization started by Olivia Newton-John to promote breast and prostate cancer awareness. He currently resides in New York City and has a home in Miami.
Ed Seitz is a legendary, world traveling equipment manger currently setting mowers at the Playa Grande Golf and Ocean Club in the Dominican Republic.
Imagine being a basketball fan. Now imagine growing up and BUYING your hometown’s NBA franchise. Tilman Fertitta is the star of his own reality TV show “Billion Dollar Buyer” on CNBC, and sole owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, Golden Nugget Casinos, and 600 other properties under Fertitta Entertainment. He is a Houston Native, accomplished businessman, and recognized as a world leader in the dining hospitality, entertainment and gaming industries, and is often referred to as, “the world’s richest restaurateur.” Fertitta owns more than 600 properties in 36 states and in over 15 countries. He is also one of the largest employers in the nation, with more than 60,000 employees. His restaurants include Mastro’s Steakhouse and Ocean Club, Morton’s Steakhouse, Vic & Anthony’s, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Dos Caminos, Joe’s Crab Shack, and more. He’s joining us in just a few minutes to talk about his new book, “Shut Up and Listen: Hard Business Truths That will Help You Succeed” In the book he talks about what he did to turn a $6,000 business loan into a billion dollar empire. He’s joining us in just a few minutes. There’s still time to pre-order “Fantastic Deals and Where to Find Them” on Amazon. You can put in bit.ly/RBfantasticdeals or just head over to amazon and search for the title. The paperback will be available possibly by the time you hear this and the kindle version will drop on Sep 30. I tell you how I get thousands of deals in my inbox every week. I don’t hold anything back -- and it’s just $3.99. There’s nothing out there like it for the price. We have a piece on our home page about finding deals as well. You can check that out at RogerBlankenship.com. Just scroll to the bottom of the page. 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Guest: Tilman Fertitta Tilmanisms Hospitality Turning things around when you fail The economy, and preparing for the cycle The characteristics of the entrepreneurial leader News: WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-is-expected-to-step-down-amid-controversy-and-retain-chair-role-wsj-reports.html ‘Hipsturbia’: It’s What All The Cool Suburbs Are Doing And It’s A 2020 Trend https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanievozza/2019/09/24/hipsturbia-its-what-all-the-cool-suburbs-are-doing-and-its-a-2020-trend/#1449c9a85870 Zillow Offers expands again, takes over top Texas markets https://www.housingwire.com/articles/50219-zillow-offers-expands-again-takes-over-top-texas-markets Home Offices Are Increasingly in Demand https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2019/09/23/home-offices-are-increasingly-in-demand Higher interest rates send weekly mortgage applications tanking 10% https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/higher-interest-rates-send-weekly-mortgage-applications-tanking-10percent.html https://www.yieldstreet.com/3-ideas-to-build-wealth-outside-the-stock-market?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NEW_WL_Desktop&utm_content=K3i&cnbc&recirc=taboolaexternal Your Questions: Send emails to questions@rogerblankenship.com Patricia, Charlotte, NC, “What is the website where I can list my wholesale deal?” Julia, Port St. Lucie, FL “Have you considered selling the paper on your small houses? 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The team discuss the Netflix show ‘The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann.’ Madeleine was one week away from her fourth birthday when she disappeared on the evening of May 3 2007 from the McCann apartment at the Ocean Club holiday club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.If you have any information about Madeleine McCann in the UK:(T): +44 (0) 207 321 9251(E): Operation.grange@met.pnn.police.ukThe Polícia Judiciária in Portugal:(T): +351 282 405 400(E): Dic.portimao@pj.ptThank You To Our SponsorsPURPLE MATTRESSGet a free Purple Pillow with your purchase by texting REAL to 84888BETTER HELPGet 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/REALCRIMEWARBY PARKERGo to WarbyParker.com/REALCRIME to order your free home Try On's todayBEST FIENDSDownload for free at the Apple App Store or Google Play
Ann continues her travels in Nassau Paradise Island Bahamas and talks with Andy Deiro, Head Golf Pro at Royal Blue Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus design, talks about this challenging Baha Mar resort course with dramatic landscape & elevation changes; Instructor Georgette Rolle shares insight on their dynamic junior instruction programs and club-fitting/rental program; Robbie Leming, PGA, GM, Ocean Club, talks about the beautiful Tom Weiskopf-design, Ocean Club Golf Course; and Sean O’Connell, in charge of all culinary at Atlantis Resort, provides an inside look at all the dining options at #Atlantis, including FISH, the Jose Andres masterpiece at The Cove, Atlantis.
Ann hosts her show from Nassau Paradise Island in the Bahamas and talks about all that Atlantis Resort has to offer including Dolphin Cay and their incredible marine mammal operation; their culinary excellance, FISH Restaurant Jose Andres; about the incomparable The Ocean Club A Four Seasons Resort and the Ocean Club Golf Course, a spectacular Tom Weiskopf design. Ann's guests are Doug Trueblood, Sr. VP Marketing, Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board; Taz Rutherford, Associate Director, Marine Mammal Operations, Dolphic Cay, Atlantis; Monica Majors, Dir. of PR, The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort; and Robbie Leming, PGA, General Manager, Ocean Club Golf Course.
On this week's rendition of "Stoned Appetit" brought to you by No Vacancy Colorado, the gang sit down with new restauranteur & proprietor, Mario Vera, of Mario's Ocean Club. They discuss his path to Colorado, his passion for seafood from all corners of the country & world... In addition to tasting their new menu, and hitting all the staples of seafood lore.. the guys dive in to Mario Kart discussion, Mario's favorite stops around town, last concert he caught (and music festival) and what he does with his free time... (Hint: He's a lifelong skier). Its a great episode, with a really cool guest, we feel everyone would appreciate. So tune in, go try the new Mario's Ocean Club on S Broadway, and enjoy getting your seafood fix!
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(With Andrea Bernstein and Meg Cramer, WNYC, and Peter Elkind, ProPublica) Since Donald Trump’s fortunes came surging back with the success of “The Apprentice” 14 years ago, his deals have often been scrutinized for the large number of his partners who have ventured to the very edges of the law, and sometimes beyond. Those associates have included accused money launderers, alleged funders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and a felon who slashed someone in the face with a broken margarita glass. Trump and his company have typically countered by saying they were merely licensing his name on these real estate projects in exchange for a fee. They weren’t the developers or in any way responsible. But an eight-month investigation by ProPublica and WNYC reveals that the post-millennium Trump business model is different from what has been previously reported. The Trumps were typically way more than mere licensors or bystanders in their often-troubled deals. They were deeply involved in these projects. They helped mislead investors and buyers — and they profited handsomely from it. Patterns of deceptive practices occurred in a dozen deals across the globe, as the business expanded into international projects, and the Trumps often participated. One common pattern, visible in more than half of those transactions, was a tendency to misstate key sales numbers. In interviews and press conferences, Ivanka Trump gave false sales figures for projects in Mexico’s Baja California ; Panama City, Panama ; Toronto and New York’s SoHo neighborhood . These statements weren’t just the legendary Trump hype; they misled potential buyers about the viability of the developments. Another pattern: Donald Trump repeatedly misled buyers about the amount (or existence) of his ownership in projects in Tampa, Florida; Panama; Baja and elsewhere. For a tower planned in Tampa, for example, Trump told a local paper in 2005 that his ownership would be less than 50 percent: “But it’s a substantial stake. I recently said I’d like to increase my stake but when they’re selling that well they don’t let you do that.” In reality, Trump had no ownership stake in the project. The Trumps often made money even when projects failed. And when they tanked, the Trumps simply ignored their prior claims of close involvement, denied any responsibility and walked away. (Projects Where A Trump Family Member Overstated Numbers and Projects Where the Trumps Suggested They Were Developers, Partners or Equity Owners - They Weren't) The cycle is exemplified in Panama City, where the Trumps were involved in a project to build a massive tower and complex known as the Trump Ocean Club . The project’s unfortunate turns included bankruptcy, then, years later, the forcible ejection of the Trump Organization from managing the hotel. There, as elsewhere, the Trump Organization disclaimed responsibility. It emphasized that it had merely licensed the Trump name to developers who handled everything from construction to marketing. “The Trump Organization was not the owner, developer or seller of the Trump Ocean Club Panama project,” it said in a statement last year. “Because of its limited role, the company was not responsible for the financing of the project and had no involvement in the sale of units.” That was false. For starters, Trump arranged financing — his promised commission: $2.2 million or more — by bringing in investment bank Bear Stearns , which issued the bonds that paid for the Panama project’s construction. Trump touted himself as a “partner” of the developer. His daughter Ivanka briefly boasted that she had personally sold 40 units. (A broker on the project said he couldn’t remember her selling even one.) Meanwhile, Ivanka told a journalist at the time that “over 90 percent” of the Panama units had sold — and at prices five times as high as comparable buildings. Both statements were untrue. Not only were the Panama sales figures inflated, but many “purchases” turned out to be an illusion. That was no coincidence. The building’s financing depended on obtaining advance commitments from buyers, often before concrete had started pouring. But in between the sale of the bonds in 2007 and 2013, the year the building went bankrupt, buyers of 458 units in the 1,000-unit building abandoned their purchase contracts. Those buyers forfeited more than $50 million in deposits, and they never took possession of finished units. Given that the “buyers” were often shadowy shell companies or other paper entities, it was nearly impossible to discern who the actual purchasers were, let alone why they backed out. Trump licensed his name for an initial fee of $1 million. But that was just the beginning of the revenue streams, a lengthy and varied assortment that granted him a piece of everything from sales of apartment units to a cut of minibar sales, and was notable for the myriad ways in which both success and failure triggered payments to him. Consider the final accounting: In the wake of the project’s bankruptcy, a 50 percent default rate and his company’s expulsion from managing the hotel, Donald Trump walked away with between $30 million and $55 million. The Trump Organization did not respond to a long list of questions about its transactions. The White House didn’t have a comment. Trump’s licensing strategy originated with his early-2000s comeback, as “The Apprentice” propelled him to international TV stardom and restored luster to a reputation tarnished by multiple bankruptcies. As Trump put it in one promotional video during that period, “When the first season of ‘The Apprentice’ finally finished shooting, I was able to get back to my core business, real estate, and I’ve made some really incredible deals.” That strategy is still playing out today. The Trump Organization, which pledged not to launch new projects during the Trump presidency, is aggressively pursuing existing ones, including in the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and India. Some long-assumed beliefs about Trump are being re-investigated, with surprising results. This month, The New York Times published a 13,000-word examination of how Donald’s father, the late Fred Trump, and his estate, funneled millions of dollars to his children, in possible violation of tax rules and criminal laws. With copious documentation showing that Fred directed $413 million in today’s dollars to Donald — not the single loan for $1 million, with interest, that Donald has always claimed — it exploded Trump’s long-propagated claim that he is a self-made man. This article examines another Trump claim: that his post-millennium comeback and global expansion rested on the brilliant purity of a licensing strategy that paid him millions simply for the use of his name. That, it turns out, is no truer than the notion that Donald Trump is self-made. “Development Wasn’t Our Big Forte” A Lebanese importer-exporter with expertise in the apparel industry seemed an unlikely choice as a partner for one of Donald Trump’s first international forays. Yet that’s precisely who Trump would team with to embark on a wildly ambitious construction project in a distant Central American location. Roger Khafif divided his time between Panama, where he had become a citizen, and South Florida. He was a slick dresser who made big promises and exuded an intensity that could be viewed either as determination or stubbornness, according to people who did business with him. He had worked in the Panama Canal free-trade zone as an importer-exporter of clothing and had recently begun dabbling in real estate, documents show, via ownership interests in two Panamanian beach resorts. “Development wasn’t our big forte,” Khafif acknowledged in an interview with ProPublica. If Khafif seemed an implausible partner, Panama seemed an odd location for a project that would become a template of sorts for Trump’s international licensing deals. The country was better known as a cog in the Latin American drug trade than as a tourist destination. It was a place to turn illegal profits into useable cash. Money laundering helped fuel the proliferation of high-rises that gave Panama City its sleek, ultramodern skyline . The deal came together fast, according to Khafif. To get to Trump, he said, an associate put him in touch with a business partner of Marvin Traub, the Trump friend and former Bloomingdale’s CEO who had also brokered Trump Vodka. Traub’s consultancy got Khafif on Trump’s schedule. (Traub’s firm later sought almost $1.3 million for matchmaking, court documents show.) “We had a quick meeting,” Khafif recalled of his first encounter with Trump in New York in 2005. “Then I left. I went down to Miami, got a call the next day from Donald Trump saying they were interested in the project.” Khafif was so surprised he didn’t at first believe he was talking to Trump. Trump signed on to Khafif’s plan and decided to bestow the leading role in the project, at least as far as the Trump Organization went, on his daughter Ivanka, Khafif told Reuters. Just entering her mid-20s, she was leading a major deal for the first time. Ivanka traveled to Panama shortly after, and the agreement coalesced quickly. Khafif’s dream was audacious and grandiose. The planned complex, Ivanka claimed in a promotional video, would amass the largest square footage of any construction in all of the Americas. Fully Trumpian in its luxury and excess, the plan would call for a 69-story sail-shaped building with 1,000 condos and hotel-condo units, offices, a casino, spa, private beach, pool deck and yacht club. (When viewed from Panama Bay, the resulting edifice would look less like a sail and more like a giant lemon wedge perched on a square base.) One Monday in April 2006 in the marble atrium at Trump Tower in Manhattan, Khafif stood in a well-cut dark suit and pale pink tie beside Trump, Ivanka and Donald Jr. to announce plans for the Trump Ocean Club’s birth. “I really think the time for Panama has come,” Trump proclaimed. Trump left multiple observers with the impression that he had an equity stake in the deal. “He said the Trump does have a financial interest in the project but he would not disclose the amount,” reported a newsletter circulated to clients and associates, alerting them to news and investment opportunities, by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which would later become publicly known for sheltering wealth in offshore accounts. Marketing materials for the Panama project also implied that Trump was functioning as a developer. “I am honored to develop this extraordinary high rise with my partner Roger Khafif of the K Group,” Trump was quoted as saying in one promotional statement. Buyers believed the Trumps and their company were functioning as the project’s developers, in partnership with Khafif, according to a lawsuit later filed by dozens of buyers. But Trump did not have a penny of equity in the development, according to records of the bond sale and bankruptcy. Nor was he the actual developer, as the Trump Organization’s own statement confirmed. In Panama and elsewhere, Trump’s projects depended on outsiders’ willingness to invest. Trump claimed at the time that banks were “fighting to put up money” for the building. But there’s no evidence that was the case. His five casino and hotel bankruptcies meant financial institutions tended to shy away, and Khafif’s lack of building experience made him a risky financing prospect. (Khafif ultimately brought on the principals of a Colombian construction and design firm to deliver the necessary know-how.) Still, Trump had a card to play without which the tower would likely never have been built: his two-decade relationship with Bear Stearns. The investment bank agreed to underwrite a $220 million bond issue. Bear Stearns and Trump had worked together on a variety of endeavors. For example, two years earlier he and a Bear Stearns executive, Trump’s investment banking adviser, had launched Trump University , a non-accredited business education program that purported to teach his real estate strategies. (It later collapsed among accusations of fraud. Trump paid $25 million to settle a suit but denied wrongdoing.) And as far back as 1988, Trump paid a $750,000 civil judgment to the U.S. Department of Justice for having Bear Stearns make purchases of casino stocks in the bank’s name rather than in his. (Trump was looking to buy casinos at the time, and the Justice Department asserted that the concealed purchases violated antitrust laws.) As the bond underwriter in the Panama project, Bear Stearns played a dual role: It raised money for construction and also vouched for the soundness of the bonds it would sell. The bank was supposed to be checking that information disclosed to investors was accurate and provided a complete picture of the investment’s strengths and weaknesses. In reality, however, “the bank had significant lapses in exercising due diligence over their bond offerings” during that period, according to Gary Aguirre, an attorney and former SEC senior counsel who advocated for more accountability of Bear Stearns and other Wall Street banks involved in the financial crisis and said he researched Bear Stearns as part of that process. The bank, including a member of its Latin America group (which was involved in the Panama deal), faced multiple investigations by regulators into whether its employees in Miami and New York had improperly valued financial instruments, though they did not lead to charges, SEC records and media reports show. The bond sale barely squeaked through in November 2007. Tremors of what would become a global financial earthquake were already destabilizing markets. At the last minute, Bear Stearns postponed the offering only to reverse course a few days later. “I remember walking up Fifth Avenue and I put my arm around Roger [Khafif],” said Jack Studnicky, a lead real estate agent for the project, “and I said, ‘You are the luckiest SOB I ever met.’” This project, branded with the name of a longtime Bear Stearns client, was the only bond issue among eight at Bear Stearns at that moment that moved forward. Many investors turned up their noses at the bonds, even though Bear Stearns representatives had traveled to New York City, Miami and London to talk up the deal. Part of what drove some blue-chip corporate investors away was obvious: The bonds for the Panama project were rated “speculative” — “junk” in Wall Street parlance — reflecting what rating agencies viewed as an elevated chance of default. More risk-tolerant, and more anonymous, hedge funds and money managers proliferated among the bond buyers, making up 80 percent of initial investors. Within months of the offering, it became clear that the Trump Ocean Club would outlive its financial backer. Bear Stearns crumpled suddenly in March 2008 as creditors pounced on the heavily indebted institution. Less than six months after it delivered the money to construct the tower, Bear Stearns disappeared into the belly of J.P. Morgan. “We Needed Those Extra Sales” Trump’s connections landed financing for the Panama project, but they could take the deal only so far. The $220 million in bond proceeds wouldn’t have started flowing if Khafif’s team hadn’t satisfied a key prerequisite: Racking up “presales,” the term for purchase contracts signed while the building was under construction (and in many cases, before construction had even begun). Buyers promised to make a down payment of 30 percent, spread over four installments, and to eventually pay in full. These binding pledges served as collateral for the bond, a crucial source of value that bondholders could seize if the developers failed to pay back what they owed. Khafif and a cadre of brokers set out to move units, with what appeared to be dramatic success at first. The year Trump joined the project, 2006, the developers reported signing a whopping 585 presales contracts with prospective buyers (nearly 60 percent of the units in the building). The Moody’s credit-rating service cited the project’s rapid sales as a “positive credit characteristic.” But the project scrambled to nail enough contracts to fulfill the bank’s requirements, according to Studnicky, who worked for the project’s master brokers, International Sales Group (ISG). Over a meal in a Spanish restaurant in New York City, Khafif told Studnicky he needed “another 100 sales to make it valid” — scribbling numbers on the paper tablecloth, according to Studnicky. “It wasn’t fully collateralized, and we needed those extra sales,” he said. ISG leaned on its agents. “We knew there was a presale requirement in order to trigger the bond issue,” said Jeff Barton, another broker who worked at ISG at the time. “So there was definitely pressure.” In dealing with potential buyers, the ISG brokers communicated urgency of a much different sort: They acted as if the building were running out of units. The prices were in constant flux, keeping potential buyers off-balance. “You could never really get a straight answer in terms of what was actually available, what had actually sold and what the real price was,” said Kent Davis, who began looking to sell Ocean Club inventory soon after opening his own real estate company in Panama City in 2007. (One buyer echoed Davis’ comments. “When I invested it was ‘Oh wow, it’s almost sold out!’” said Al Monstavicius, a retired doctor who bought into the Panama tower. “I was told the units were selling real well. Well, they weren’t selling real well.”) ISG did not return messages seeking comment. Davis said he sold a few units, splitting the commission with ISG. “I think some of their projections were exaggerated. I think the way they described how the project would ultimately be built did not come to fruition,” he said. “I think they were overpromising and, to be honest, at times I was complacent.” Just as Trump took millions upfront, financial incentives in the project were stacked to reward brokers for quick presales — rather than slow and steady contracts perhaps more likely to close once construction finished. Commissions were front-loaded to an unusual degree, Davis said. Agents making the earliest sales would receive 90 percent of their expected commissions by the time construction started, according to Barton. Only the final 10 percent was held back until closing, when the buyer had paid in full and the unit was ready to be occupied. (Davis said that brokers typically get commissions in increments in line with the percentage their clients have put in.) Even as brokers were taking cash out quickly, buyers were given time to put their money in. They anted up just 10 percent upon signing a purchase contract, according to the bond prospectus. They paid the remaining 20 percent in increments over the year after that. Khafif complained of soaring construction costs and raised prices even as brokers hustled for contracts, Studnicky said. “I kept saying I understand the problem, but if you keep pushing the prices up, people are never going to be able to close on these things,” he said. The higher prices climbed, the more the Trumps stood to pocket. Their licensing agreement gave them a base fee of 4 percent of gross sales when units closed. (This was on top of the $1 million Trump was given in advance for the use of his name.) They also received an “incentive fee”: the higher the price rose above benchmarks, the greater a proportion the Trumps earned, records show. A hotel-condominium unit that sold for $385,000, for example, would produce a payment of $20,650 — just over 5 percent — to Trump’s company. That was just the beginning. Along with the cut of sales, Trump’s 2006 licensing agreement provided the family other cash streams from the Panama project. The Trumps could take a 20 percent commission on construction costs if money was saved through Trump dealmaking, for instance. Once the hotel opened , they would pocket 17.5 percent of what hotel guests paid for their rooms, including what they spent on minibar items, internet service and even bathrobes; 4 percent for parking unit sales; and 12 percent of commercial space rentals. The Trump Organization would also receive 4 percent of the hotel’s gross revenue for managing it, plus an incentive fee equal to a fifth of the hotel’s net operating income. If everything went smoothly, according to the bond prospectus, Trump’s take would be $74 million by 2010. That sum was equivalent to about a third of the entire financing for the project. Of course, things would go less than perfectly. But Trump was protected if that happened, too. His contract created a safety net for him if prices rose so high that buyers failed to close. One provision required that two years after the first closing, developers would pay the Trumps fees for unsold units — basing the amount on the average sales prices of the units that had closed. In theory, avoiding such payments provided an incentive to sell more units; in reality, it meant that Trump would get paid whether or not units actually sold. The contract required that monthly sales and marketing reports be provided to the Trumps. It was a stipulation the Trump Organization appeared to value: In an email related to another project, Trump’s son Eric chastised business partners in the Dominican Republic for delays in making such reports. “I am getting weekly emails from my team who requests this info on all projects for basic monitoring purposes,” Eric wrote. His sister, meanwhile, asserted her engagement with the company’s endeavors. “I’m involved in every aspect of our new construction projects,” Ivanka said in a 2008 interview. “[A] lot of what I do is get involved in the acquisition process, from sourcing the potential opportunities and then the initial due-diligence process, but then, of course, I follow the deals through to predevelopment planning, design, interior design, architectural design, sales and marketing, and, ultimately, through operations.” “Our biggest problem is not having enough inventory” Construction on the Trump Ocean Club had begun in May 2007, with customer deposits, investor money and a bridge loan tiding the developers over until the sale of bonds in November 2007. To hear the Trumps tell it, the project was a raging and immediate success, even in the face of a historic global financial and real estate crisis that erupted in 2008 and continued into 2009 and beyond. At times, the hyperbole crossed over into misrepresentation. In a November 2008 interview, Ivanka Trump bragged that she had “sold 40 units in Panama last month.” She added that “it’s a 1,000-unit building, we’ve sold over 90 percent of it.” The units, she said, had been going at a “500 percent premium to anything the luxury market has ever experienced prior to our entry.” All of that was exaggerated or outright false. When pressed by her interviewer about what she meant by “I sold 40 units,” Ivanka backed off, saying, “We did, our project,” a transcript of the interview shows. Studnicky, who was deeply involved with Ocean Club sales at the time and generally praised the Trumps, said Ivanka didn’t sell any units that he knew of. Three months after Ivanka’s comments were published, Moody’s reported that 79 percent of the building’s units were under purchase contracts. The Trump name did carry a premium, according to data filed with Panamanian securities officials. But even at its high point, it amounted to about 130 percent of what similar luxury properties fetched, not the 500 percent Ivanka claimed. Meanwhile, the Trumps used some of their glamour to encourage sales. Donald Trump himself hosted a gala for the Panama project at Mar-a-Lago where celebrity Regis Philbin dropped in. But difficulties were mounting and cash was tight. By 2009, some buyers were offered hefty discounts if they agreed to pay the full purchase price up front. (Monstavicius says he accepted such an offer, shaving $100,000 off his nearly half-million-dollar penthouse suite.) Ratings for the Ocean Club’s bonds were lowered in February 2009, but you wouldn’t have known that by listening to the Trumps. A few weeks after the downgrade, Ivanka gushed about Panama in an interview with a publication called the Latin Business Chronicle. “Given the global downturn, the fact that sales remain so robust is a testament to the product, the brand and Panama,” she said. “Our biggest problem is not having enough inventory. We only have a small percent of the building left.” The following year brought more trouble. There was another bond downgrade. One of the services that reduced its rating, Fitch, expressed concerns about the market and buyers’ “willingness and ability to close on units upon delivery.” The developers faced a $27 million construction shortfall and delays by subcontractors performing services such as millwork. Khafif and his team trimmed back some of their plans, which only irked buyers who had already committed their money. For example, buyers said square footage for some units was reduced. The location for a planned beach club was moved to a more distant spot with less cachet. And plans to have Trump manage the casino were abandoned. The issuing of the bonds hadn’t relieved pressure on the Ocean Club to move units. The developers needed to keep sales commitments and cash high or they risked defaulting on the bonds. By 2010, 25 contracts appeared in jeopardy as buyers missed payments toward their deposits. Facing pressure from multiple sides, the developers sought bondholders’ permission to make key changes to their agreement. They proposed relaxing the requirements for collateral and reducing the amount of cash they had to keep in a deposit account. In a company statement quoted in the press at the time, Newland International Properties (the entity formed by Khafif and the outside developers he partnered with) was blunt about its need: “The company believes that the proposed amendments are necessary to allow the company to continue construction.” “Nobody Ever Asked Where These Sales Were Coming From” From the beginning, the plan at the Trump Ocean Club was to draw a luxury-seeking international clientele with disposable income. With some 1,000 units to sell, brokers tapped networks of upper-crust buyers across the globe. In doing so, they netted purchasers with problematic pasts, including some with ties to organized crime and money laundering operations. ISG representatives and independent brokers fanned out to Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Dubai, China and South Africa, as well as other Latin American countries. As of mid-2007, roughly 60 percent of buyers came from outside the United States, bond documents show. (Much has been made of Trump’s buyers of Russian nationality or extraction, but the Panama sales were not tracked by nationality. Still, some were found in Moscow and, Khafif said, in Trump developments in ) Several aspects of the Panama sales raised red flags, according to experts. For example, some buyers bought blocks of units. Purchases were typically made anonymously through shell corporations registered in Panama. That allowed some buyers to change the ownership of the unit in secret, simply by changing the ownership of the company. They often used so-called bearer shares, allowing a stake in a company to be transferred simply by passing a piece of paper. “Nobody ever asked where these sales were coming from, where the money was coming from,” said Studnicky, adding that this wasn’t unusual for such a building at the time. The purchase of multiple units and the use of bearer shares or shell companies are not illegal in themselves. But they can be hallmarks of money laundering, according to experts. “We have no idea of the people behind those companies,” said Eryn Schornick, a policy adviser for Global Witness, an international anti-corruption organization. The Panama deal, she said, bore signs of “classic money laundering.” Meanwhile, multiple buyers claimed they were promised quick profits through flips arranged by the developers, promises they say were not fulfilled. Some of those allegations began emerging in litigation even before the Trump Ocean Club opened. In late 2010, a group of buyers accused Trump, the Trump Organization, Khafif and Newland, Khafif’s development operation, of misleading them, according to a previously unreported lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida. There were 37 plaintiffs, led by an independent broker, Greg Landau. The group — including South Florida residents, a family in Brooklyn, a Massachusetts psychiatrist, a New York fashion mogul and several Russians — had bought 42 Ocean Club condominiums between 2006 and 2009. The group alleged that Khafif had offered them a sweet enticement: If they put 30 percent down, either the developer or the Trump Organization would finance the rest. Khafif, plaintiffs claimed, said Newland or the Trump Organization would manage the investment — finding new buyers so they could flip it for a big profit before construction was finished and they had to close on the property. The deal soured after some of the Ocean Club plans were trimmed (including, as noted, reducing the size of units). Buyers discovered there was no developer financing, and no buyers lined up to flip to. They went to court. Trump had “stood by silently as Khafif made the misrepresentations” in a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in 2007 aimed at attracting investors and encouraging current investors to increase their deposits, the lawsuit claimed. It also cited the marketing materials in which Trump called Khafif his “partner.” “The Trump Organization knew these representations were being made by Khafif to Landau and of the fact that Landau was expected to repeat them to other potential investors,” it alleged. “Defendants Khafif, Donald Trump, and the Trump Organization were culpable participants in the fraudulent scheme.” In an interview with ProPublica, one of those buyers described what he had expected to happen. “There was an agreement that when the hotel is built, when the building is ready, we’ll sell our apartments, our shares, and quit the project,” said Victor Masaltsev, an internet entrepreneur who lives in Moscow and invested in the Ocean Club through a Panamanian shell company that became a plaintiff in the Landau suit against Trump. Masaltsev said he was invited to visit Mar-a-Lago for an event with Trump celebrating the project, but he couldn’t make the trip. “I’ve been doing business for a long time and, you know, there’s never a 100 percent guarantee,” he said through a translator. “But I was expecting to make no less than 50 percent profit on my money.” Instead, he said, he lost his deposit. In their legal papers, the Trump Organization and Newland asserted that the complaint was “completely devoid of facts sufficient to show that Donald Trump and The Trump Organization were conducting the affairs of a ‘fraudulent scheme.’” Khafif called the lawsuit a case of “buyers’ remorse, of course.” There were “a million” such lawsuits when the financial crisis came, he added. “They tried to invent anything in order to get their money back. It wasn’t our fault.” A U.S. judge ordered the case be moved to Panamanian courts, but the parties reached a confidential settlement before that happened. Other plaintiffs, reached by ProPublica, have a surprising take on the dispute today. Three of them echoed Khafif and said the project was simply a bad investment. “It’s nothing to do with Trump,” said David Feldman, speaking outside his Brooklyn duplex. He said he did not receive any money in the settlement and added that he thought Trump was hurt by the deal, too, before declining to talk further. Landau did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Roderick Coleman, the attorney named on the lawsuit pleadings. Landau’s group wasn’t the only one to claim it was sold on an unfulfilled promise of easy flipping. One buyer from Dubai made similar claims, according to emails in the Panama Papers, a collection of documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. “The concept was pay the deposit and they would get it resold before completion,” a representative for the buyer wrote to a lawyer in Panama. “[T]he apartment was going to be resold for them by the agents that came from Panama to Dubai for Marketing the project.” Khafif called it another case of buyer’s remorse. “Our project was the cleanest one of them all” Unfulfilled promises weren’t the only questionable behavior alleged at the Trump Ocean Club. For example, one high-selling broker, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira , was linked to money laundering by Global Witness and a joint Reuters-NBC investigation. Nogueira confirmed in that article that some of his partners and investors on the Trump Panama project had connections to the Russian mafia. (He asserted that he had discovered those connections only after the fact.) Among the buyers Nogueira landed was a Colombian businessman who was subsequently convicted in the United States of conspiring to launder drug money. Khafif told ProPublica that he hired Nogueira because he was one of the highest-profile brokers in Panama City at the time. “That guy was very famous,” Khafif said. “We ended up suing him because he swindled the clients.” Nogueira, who was also accused of selling the same units to more than one buyer at the same time, fled Panama and described himself in the Reuters article as a “fugitive.” (He denied in that story, but could not be reached for comment for this article.) The Trump Organization denied the family knew Nogueira. But photos were published of Ivanka and her father smiling with an arm around Nogueira at events at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago. Project developers also seem to have made dubious presales themselves — and profitable ones at that — according to emails between bondholders and Newland obtained by ProPublica. Newland shareholders purchased some of the building’s units at below-market prices with down payments of just 5 percent. “I have never seen 8-10 percent of a 996 unit project reserved by the developers at prices as much as 70 percent less than list price (with just a 5% deposit),” asserted one email from Gary Lundgren, who now owns a sizable part of the building, to others in the project. The purchases were “not disclosed in the Bear Stearns’s bond offering circular, not disclosed in the quarterly financial disclosure, not disclosed in the annual audited financial statements,” he complained. Newland acquired some of the units by taking over ones that were in danger of default, Lundgren stated in the email, with the developers kicking in the 5 percent needed for the units to continue being counted as collateral under the bond terms. The developers resold some of the properties at higher prices, Lundgren’s email asserted, and they pocketed the difference. These resales effectively cut out bondholders from their share of the proceeds. His emails to Newland did not mention the Trumps. (In 2016, Lundgren was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority from acting as a broker after he failed to respond to an information request. His filings asserted that the complaint against him, filed by someone who was not his customer, was without merit, and that Panamanian law prevented him from disclosing the records.) The insider purchases potentially violated the terms of the project’s financing. The bond prospectus required down payments of at least 30 percent, which would “protect the economics of our project.” Since sweetheart deals generated less cash — which meant less collateral for the bonds — a provision of the bond agreement restricted sales made to affiliates of the developers. And if buyers stopped making payments, they were supposed to go through a default process rather than have Newland take over their purchase. “The developers made bad judgment calls, and they justified it by their support for the project,” said Alfredo “Dino” de Angelis, of Gapstone, which advised Newland in the bankruptcy. Ultimately, he said, the developers added money to stabilize the project, enough to equal or exceed what they appear to have made by re-selling units. Khafif said that bondholders looked into the questions and “found everything was 100 percent by the book.” He said developers didn’t need to buy units and followed the rules in the bond indenture. Khafif insisted that he conducted business the right way. “Our project was the cleanest one of them all,” he said. “We had to watch out for Trump, we had to watch out for bondholders. We had to work within the indenture, or else we’d be screwed.” “Replete with misrepresentations” Ivanka Trump ’s exaggerations about the Ocean Club reflected a tactic she and her father employed repeatedly in other cases, ProPublica and WNYC found. Their statements, typically made in the midst of sales drives, tended to overstate the number of units under contract or the Trump Organization’s equity stake in projects scattered around the globe. The Trumps’ propensity to overstate sales led them, as ProPublica, WNYC and the New Yorker reported last year, to be investigated on potential felony fraud charges in one case. Ivanka had announced in June 2008 that 60 percent of the units at the SoHo tower had been bought when in fact 15 percent had, according to an affidavit filed by a Trump partner. The Manhattan district attorney’s office considered charging the Trumps but backed off after a visit from a donor — Trump’s attorney Marc Kasowitz . (The DA, Cyrus Vance , denied he was influenced by the donation but later changed his policy and now refuses donations from lawyers with cases before him.) Similar deceptions occurred elsewhere. In a marketing video for a project in Baja, Mexico, Ivanka referred to Trump International Hotel in Toronto as one of several “sold out” properties. The Toronto tower never did sell out. It was still three-quarters empty late last year, a few months after Trump’s name was removed from the building. Trump himself also made misrepresentations. In 2006, he said the Trump Organization would be a significant equity investor in the $200 million Baja project and repeatedly portrayed himself as the project’s developer. Yet in 2008, the company admitted it was neither a developer nor an investor. In Tampa, as noted, Trump told the press he had a significant ownership stake when he had none. Moreover, his licensing agreement contained a confidentiality provision barring “under any circumstances” that anyone reveal the agreement existed, and hence that Trump was only licensing his name. The deal never got financing and ultimately fell apart. Panama also wasn’t the only project where questions emerged about insider deals. In Tampa, Donald Trump Jr. and three executives associated with the Trump Organization arranged to buy a unit under unusually attractive terms, according to emails between the executives and the developer. As early sales on the project surged, the Trump group — which formed a company called Busy Boys Investments to handle the purchase — bargained both for a discount price and a smaller deposit than other buyers paid. “Can you confirm the deal?” asked Russell Flicker, a former Trump Organization executive vice president, in a late-2004 email to one of the Tampa developers. “(We had discussed 5% down payment, discounted price and flip rights prior to closing — are all of these on the table?) You’re the man.” The developer replied, “The deal is as you state!” The Trump group also discussed backdating documents to reduce their tax liability, according to the emails. They excitedly anticipated a quick flip that would yield a $200,000 profit — $50,000 apiece, a handsome return on the $8,604 deposit each paid. (The emails were revealed in a court case filed by unhappy buyers; their suit ultimately settled, with the buyers receiving limited refunds of their deposits.) In January 2005, Flicker forwarded an email conveying the prospect of such a windfall to his partners in the side deal: Donald Jr. and Trump Organization executive vice presidents Bernie Diamond and Jason Greenblatt, with the message: “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” In a July 2005 email, Diamond, an attorney, explained to the others that the developer told him he would prepare a unit purchase contract “for Busy Boys to sign dated in 2004,” as well as an assignment of their contract to the proposed buyer, also “dated one year earlier.” Diamond noted, “This is good, as it will give us the best shot at capital gains treatment.” (The Tampa tower was never constructed, so the Busy Boys entity did not ultimately cash in. On behalf of Greenblatt, who is now a special representative for international negotiations in the Trump administration, a White House official said “Mr. Greenblatt complied with all applicable laws in connection with condominium purchase agreements.”) In Baja, Ivanka tried to leverage her own unit purchase to pull in other buyers. “I personally am very excited about it, I actually chose to purchase a unit in the first tower,” she said in a promotional video as she flashed a smile. She did not mention that the deposit she paid was less than half of the 30 percent other investors put in for their units, according to Univision. Univision also reported that the developers overstated the percentage of units sold and had assigned 34 units to their own executives and other related parties. Written materials became a matter of contention, as well; multiple buyers contended they were misleading. Trump had some say over such materials: Projects including Baja, Tampa, the Dominican Republic, Israel and Panama all required developers and other partners to obtain prior approval from Trump’s company before posting press releases. In some cases, the company had veto power over promotional materials in general, as well. There were other deceptions. In marketing materials featuring a grinning image of the New York developer, potential buyers in a Trump-branded project in Toronto were shown investment projections that proved wildly optimistic, according to interviews and records from the extensive litigation that ensued. A Canadian appeals court, ruling after the Toronto deal went sour, unanimously found that estimates of profitability provided to purchasers “bore no relation to financial reality.” The panel quoted a trial judge’s findings that the projections were “deceptive” and “replete with misrepresentations of commission, of omission, and of half-truth.” (The case is still pending.) In Chicago , Trump promised discounts — some with down payments of as little as 5 percent — to friends and colleagues, only to rescind those arrangements when sales in the building picked up. Trump justified the broken promises, saying “we’re entitled” to the higher prices. Buyers who sued Trump have had mixed success. Most suits settled before trial, but Trump prevailed in cases in Las Vegas and Florida in which buyers accused his company of deception. The “Stormy Jack Daniels” The Trump Ocean Club in Panama was officially inaugurated on July 6, 2011. It was nearly a year behind schedule after cost overruns and construction delays. The Trumps had been more visible again during the final stages. Ivanka picked out design finishes, including helping deck out the “sky lobby” on the 15th floor with wood paneling, pillars and marble that echoed the ground floor entrance hall. The lobby’s “tropical color palette” was “reminiscent of indigenous flowers,” Ivanka said in one promotional video. July falls during Panama’s rainy season and a downpour swamped the city’s already-overwhelmed infrastructure on the day of the opening, turning the cramped roads near the tower into waterways. Trump had angered many Panamanians by declaring that the U.S. had “stupidly” turned over the Panama Canal “in exchange for nothing.” But the country’s then-president, Ricardo Martinelli , turned up for the ceremony nonetheless. He joined Trump, his two adult sons, Khafif, and other dignitaries to cut a ribbon to mark the opening. Ivanka, days away from giving birth to her first child, did not attend. (In June 2018, Martinelli was extradited on corruption charges, unrelated to the Trump project, from the U.S., where he had fled in search of sanctuary. He has denied wrongdoing.) Trump was upbeat. “I think this hotel is truly magnificent,” he said, according to press reports. “You look at Panama’s skyline and you see how this one truly stands out.” The time had come for the hundreds of sales contracts that brokers had amassed over the previous five years — eventually covering about 85 percent of the building — to convert to actual sales. In the months that followed, however, it became increasingly clear that buyers were walking away in droves. Ultimately, only about half the sales contracts closed, leaving the building largely empty and developers struggling to make bond-related payments. One-bedroom units that once sold for $350,000 could be scooped up for $180,000. In November 2011, developers defaulted on a critical bond payment. The volume of people who abandoned their deposits far exceeded the ratings agencies’ worst-case predictions. Those predictions rested on the forbidding combination of tight post-crisis financing standards and the high prices that many buyers had agreed to pay. That strongly suggests that many of the remaining people who paid deposits and then vanished may not have intended to do anything more than put down enough cash to trigger the $220 million bond issuance. Newland declared bankruptcy in April 2013 in federal court in New York City, where it kept much of its cash. The Trumps agreed to reduce their fees, making concessions that bankruptcy records said would amount to $20 million over a period of years. Even after those concessions, Khafif’s company continued to run in the red in 2014 and 2015, with net losses nearing $28 million in 2014 alone, financial reports show. It missed another payment in 2015.So Trump didn’t make the $74 million he had hoped for. He appears to have walked away with between $30 million and $55 million, based on fragmentary information in his government disclosure forms, financial statements filed in Panama and estimates by observers. Khafif seems philosophical about it. At 63, he’s semiretired and travels to the U.S. and Europe often. These days, he said, his main business is laundering linens. The company, Perfect Cleaners, which Khafif called the largest industrial laundry plant in Central America, has served the Trump Ocean Club. (He did not respond to a question about his own financial outcome on the Trump project.) Khafif said his relationship with the family remains good. “I was in New York a couple months ago. I went to visit Eric Trump,” he said. “We’re fine.” The Ocean Club proved a disappointment in many respects, he said, “but life goes on. … It’s the best building in town.” As much as $120 million of the original bond was never paid back, according to one investor. Asked about that, Khafif pointed out that many investors sold their bonds — albeit at a discount — after receiving interest payments for years, allowing some to recoup much of their investment at a time when lots of people were hemorrhaging money. “It depends on how you look at it,” Khafif said. “You’re grateful at getting your money back, or you’re greedy and you want to make money when everybody lost their shirt.” Ocean Club buyers filed a host of lawsuits in Panama, complaining of the delays and changes in the building plans. The beach club was never built. A non-Trump company took over the casino. Some rooms were smaller than planned. By 2015, a new revolt was brewing, this time by Ocean Club unit owners fed up with the way the Trumps were managing the property — or more particularly, with how they were spending the building association’s money. Led by Lundgren, the owners alleged that Trump employees overspent budgets, taking excessive bonuses for themselves, and mishandled building finances, leading them to propose a steep increase in fees to owners. Trump responded by suing the condo owners, demanding up to $75 million for wrongful termination. (The litigation was settled confidentially in 2016.) In 2017, Ithaca Capital Partners, led by Orestes Fintiklis, bought 202 of the hotel’s 369 hotel-condo units. In October of last year, his group sought to remove the Trump Organization as hotel managers — alleging in a legal action that it had mismanaged the hotel, leading to drastic drop-offs in occupancy and profits. The Trump Organization countersued, accusing Fintiklis of a “fraudulent scheme” that breached its 20-year management contract. The dispute reached a head early this year, when Fintiklis’ representatives, with a court order behind them, sought to take physical control of the building. Trump Organization employees and a group of security personnel tried to block the effort, leading to confrontations and shoving matches. Fintiklis’ group ultimately gained entry but discovered walls had been hastily erected in inconvenient places — in the middle of a hallway, in front of an elevator bank — to impede access to the building’s inner offices. Reports circulated of Trump employees shredding documents. In March of this year, the Trumps suffered the ignominy of seeing their name crowbarred off the stone wall in front of the tower . It was rebranded the Bahia Grand Panama. In late spring, the hotel, once touted as boasting stratospheric levels of luxury, was quiet, with rooms renting for the decidedly terrestrial rate of $169 a night. At the hotel bar, you could order drinks with a sardonic twist that reflected Fintiklis’ sense of humor, including the “Fire and Fury” and the “Stormy Jack Daniels.” In June, Fintiklis announced the hotel would have a new manager. “We are thrilled that our hotel will operate as a JW Marriott ,” he said in a statement, “and we believe this partnership, together with a talented team and spectacular hotel amenities, will be a success.” ### Additional reporting by Micah Hauser, Ian MacDougall, Gabriel Sandoval, Katherine Sullivan and Madeleine Varner.
The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Houston Rockets Owner Tilman Fertitta of CNBC's Billion Dollar Buyer. Tilman Fertitta is the sole owner, chairman and CEO of Fertitta Entertainment, Inc., which owns both the restaurant giant Landry's and the Golden Nugget Casinos and is recognized today as a world leader in the dining, hospitality, entertainment and gaming industries. The Company today has revenues over $3.4 billion and assets of more than $3.5 billion. Landry's operates more than 500 properties in 36 states and owns a number of international locations. It is also one of the country's largest employers, with more than 60,000 employees. Landry's owns and operates more than 50 different restaurant brands, including McCormick & Schmick's, Chart House, Landry's Seafood, Rainforest Cafe, Saltgrass Steak House, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Claim Jumper and many more award-winning concepts. Landry's Signature Group of restaurants includes some of the world's premier fine dining concepts, like Mastro's Steakhouse and Ocean Club, Morton's The Steakhouse, The Oceanaire, Vic & Anthony's, Brenner's Steakhouse, Grotto, La Griglia and Willie G's. What is further unique about Landry's is that it operates all of its locations and doesn't license or franchise any of its domestic units.
Tweet LIVE this Sunday, November 5th at 635pm Small Bites on Wildfire Radiowith Derek away, Glenn and #Actor John DiRenzo will play. We are thrilled to welcome Robyn Eckhardt who is an American food and travel journalist based in Piemonte, Italy. Her writing and recipes have appeared in SAVEUR Magazine, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cured, The Economist's monthly magazine 1843, SBS Feast magazine, AFAR, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure and the Chicago Tribune. Since 2005, Robyn has published, with 'Istanbul and Beyond' photographer David Hagerman, the food blog EatingAsia, which focuses on ingredients, food markets, cooks and food artisans, and culinary cultures in Turkey, south east Asia and beyond. In 2014 and 2016 EatingAsia was named Editor's Choice, Culinary Travel in the Saveur Food Blog Awards. EatingAsia has been featured and/or cited for excellence by the New York Times, BBC, Food52, Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Guardian, The Splendid Table, CNN, and other media. 'Istanbul and Beyond' is the result of Robyn's nearly two decades-long passion for Turkey, its food and its people. After her first trip to Turkey in 2008 Robyn studied Turkish at University of California, Berkeley, while returning annually to Turkey to travel. Between 2011 and 2015, as they conducted research for 'Istanbul and Beyond', Robyn and David clocked more than 16 months on the road, covering more than 15,000 miles, in Istanbul and Turkey's eastern half. Several of the regions featured in 'Istanbul and Beyond' are little referenced by food writers outside of Turkey; many recipes in the book have never before been published in English. From village home cooks, community bakers, café chefs, farmers, and fishermen, they have assembled a broad, one-of-a-kind collection of authentic, easy-to-follow recipes: “The Imam Fainted” Stuffed Eggplant; Pillowy Fingerprint Flatbread; Pot-Roasted Chicken with Caramelized Onions; Stovetop Lamb Meatballs with Spice Butter; Artichoke Ragout with Peas and Favas; Green Olive Salad with Pomegranate Molasses; Apple and Raisin Hand Pies. Many of these have never before been published in English. When not reporting, writing, developing recipes, or simply traveling to eat, Robyn organizes food and photography workshops with David in Turkey, Italy, and Asia. Then in studio we are happy to have join us Executive Chef Jenn Grosskruger of Ocean Prime. Chef Jenn's love of cooking developed at a young age, when she would prepare simple meals for her family. Now Chef Jenn oversees one of Philadelphia's largest scratch kitchens with a team of culinary professionals behind her. Ocean Prime is a modern American restaurant and lounge from renowned restaurateur Cameron Mitchell. There are currently 14 locations from coast to coast, with the original location, Mitchell's Ocean Club, in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio. OCEAN PRIME delivers an extraordinary experience to guests: stunning settings and a vibrant energy, an impressive menu of seafood and prime cuts of steak, signature cocktails, a Wine Spectator-honored wine list and truly genuine hospitality. Each OCEAN PRIME location is unique and inspired by the energy of the city where it's located. Dramatically designed, the restaurants are social, fun, and glamorous. Every element has been carefully curated with attention to every detail. They specialize in incredible seafood and prime steaks, but OCEAN PRIME is much more than just a steakhouse or a seafood restaurant. OCEAN PRIME is an extraordinary dining destination. Their menu features classic dishes crafted with a modern sensibility and an appreciation for ingredients. With lighter fare, like their shellfish cobb salad and sushi, as well as more indulgent items like their smoking shellfish tower, juicy steaks and decadent desserts, there's something for every occasion. We also have coming in studio Mark Van Horn the owner of French Quarter Bistro in Royersford Borough, Pennsylvania. French Quarter Bistro is one of the area's premier destinations for pleasant dining and superb cuisine. Situated in one of Royersford's most congenial settings, they offer a casual, comfortable atmosphere and it is the perfect place to spend time with family and friends. Their friendly staff looks forward to making your next dining experience pleasant and truly unforgettable. We can't wait! Small Bites Radio correspondent Actor John DiRenzo will also be helping in studio with his valuable insight and experience in the culinary world and also be sure to catch him on QVC selling the high quality Copper Chef products. You say you STILL NEED MORE!!! Don't forget we still have our regular weekly segments from Courier-Post nightlife correspondent and The New York Times recognized John Howard-Fusco for his news of the week and please remember that John's new book "A Culinary History of Cape May: Salt Oysters, Beach Plums & Cabernet Franc" from Arcadia Publishing The History Press is now available to buy, Chef Barbie Marshall who is a Chef Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Season 10 finalist and appears on Season 17 of FOX Hell's Kitchen #AllStars, and Chef Barbie was named Pennsylvania's most influential chef by Cooking Light will delight us with her tip of the week, and a joke of the week from legendary joke teller Jackie Martling of The Howard Stern Show fame and Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling with recent autobiography "The Joke Man: Bow to Stern" from Post Hill Press with foreword by Artie Lange available to order on Amazon.com.Fat Jack's BBQ and Bluejeanfood.com hope you will TuneIn worldwide or catch the following day on iTunes or Player FM. 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WBZ's Jordan Rich discusses offerings at Mastro's Ocean Club on Fan Pier.
A crash in its computer system forced British airline British Airways (BA) to cancel all flights on Saturday afternoon from the London airports of Heathrow and Gatwick, the largest airports in the country. The problem had started in the morning. First with delays have arrived then the total cancellation. The Spanish taxi sector went on strike on Tuesday to protest the advance of platforms such as Uber and Cabify. The strike was well supported in Madrid and Barcelona. Self-employed in Spain will pay eight euros more a month from June Police closed off part of nearby Marbella's Golden Mile where a hit-and-run driver crashed near a five-star hotel a couple of miles from the Ocean Club after fleeing the scene. He had driven into several pedestrians. Holidaymakers in Magaluf are said to be terrified by a gang of giant muggers who 'nearly asphyxiate' their victims while bear hugging them. Spanish police have arrested two suspects Fancy a holiday in an all-inclusive hotel at the foot of the beach and without paying a euro? It is the fantasy of some who rush to reserve their seaside destination this summer then making false claims for food poisoning. A practice that has cost almost 60 million euros to the hotel sector and has united businessmen from tourist areas as disparate as the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol. British Forces took to their official MOD twitter account to announce the arrival of HMS Torbay at Her Majesty's Naval Base in Gibraltar - where eyewitnesses reported increased security. With just a week to go before the UK decides the next government Theresa May seems to focus on Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn on populist measures. Apart from Nicola Sturgeon the others seem almost conspicuous by their absense! British Airways has been accused of profiting from passengers trapped by the global IT crash who went on to pay huge sums for expensive upgrades just to reach their destinations In a controversial move, EU officials have outlined a huge increase in spending, which they expect the UK to help fund despite voting to leave. While the official number of those claiming sickness benefits for obesity is 160,000, the true figure is likely to be more than five times higher at around 880,000, Professor Dame Carol Black has claimed. A disturbing film on the internet shows a blonde girl grabbing a brunette pupil's hair, pictured, before repeatedly punching her in the head and face at Fraserburgh Academy, Aberdeenshire. A young lad aged just 12 returned to his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester, after realising on the school run that he did not have his text books with him. He then hanged himself in his room.
A crash in its computer system forced British airline British Airways (BA) to cancel all flights on Saturday afternoon from the London airports of Heathrow and Gatwick, the largest airports in the country. The problem had started in the morning. First with delays have arrived then the total cancellation. The Spanish taxi sector went on strike on Tuesday to protest the advance of platforms such as Uber and Cabify. The strike was well supported in Madrid and Barcelona. Self-employed in Spain will pay eight euros more a month from June Police closed off part of nearby Marbella's Golden Mile where a hit-and-run driver crashed near a five-star hotel a couple of miles from the Ocean Club after fleeing the scene. He had driven into several pedestrians. Holidaymakers in Magaluf are said to be terrified by a gang of giant muggers who 'nearly asphyxiate' their victims while bear hugging them. Spanish police have arrested two suspects Fancy a holiday in an all-inclusive hotel at the foot of the beach and without paying a euro? It is the fantasy of some who rush to reserve their seaside destination this summer then making false claims for food poisoning. A practice that has cost almost 60 million euros to the hotel sector and has united businessmen from tourist areas as disparate as the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol. British Forces took to their official MOD twitter account to announce the arrival of HMS Torbay at Her Majesty's Naval Base in Gibraltar - where eyewitnesses reported increased security. With just a week to go before the UK decides the next government Theresa May seems to focus on Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn on populist measures. Apart from Nicola Sturgeon the others seem almost conspicuous by their absense! British Airways has been accused of profiting from passengers trapped by the global IT crash who went on to pay huge sums for expensive upgrades just to reach their destinations In a controversial move, EU officials have outlined a huge increase in spending, which they expect the UK to help fund despite voting to leave. While the official number of those claiming sickness benefits for obesity is 160,000, the true figure is likely to be more than five times higher at around 880,000, Professor Dame Carol Black has claimed. A disturbing film on the internet shows a blonde girl grabbing a brunette pupil's hair, pictured, before repeatedly punching her in the head and face at Fraserburgh Academy, Aberdeenshire. A young lad aged just 12 returned to his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester, after realising on the school run that he did not have his text books with him. He then hanged himself in his room.
13. Inte en enda räka Bland annat: Champange shower på Ocean Club, kändisfamiljer och göttiga sommarmoments. Poddare: Charlie Elf, Rasmus Tilliander, Robin Karlsson
Tracklisting:1. Cahill – Sunshine2. Kiesza – Giant In My Heart3. Pharrell Williams Ft. Jay Z - Frontin (Disclosure Re Work)4. Wideboys Vs Ruff Driverz – Deeper Love Reloaded5. Chris Malinchak – Stranger (Blonde Remix)6. Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good Feeling (DaLoops & Freejak Remix)7. Kaskade – Ain’t Gotta Lie8. Clean bandit - Nightingale (Gorgon City Remix) 9. Robin Thicke – Wanna Love You Girl (Nick Hannam Remix) 10. ZHU - Moves Like Ms. Jackson 11. Daniel Steinberg – Let Me Down (Tube & Berger Remix) 12. FCL – It’s You (Secondcity Back To 1990 Mix) 13. Groove Cartell - You Got Me Singing (Spiritchaser Remix)
TRAVEL -- In my humble opinion, no existing James Bond location is as authentic, untouched, and accurate to how it’s portrayed in the film. If you’ve seen James Bond walking through the Ocean Club in Casino Royale, then you can walk in the front door, and know exactly where you are.
Tracklisting: Duke Dumont – Won’t Look Back (Blasé Boys Club Remix)Blonde - Higher Ground Basement Jaxx – Never Say Never (mark Knight Remix)Axwell, Ingrosso, Angello, Laidback Luke – Leave The World Behind (Ted Nilson Edit)Oliver Heldens X Becky Hill – Gecko (Jack Beats Remix)Nicky Night Time - Everybody together Ben Pearce - What I Might Do (Dirty Freak Remix)Route 94 - My LoveDisclosure - White Noise (Rossi Sure Remix)Bondax - Giving It All (Friend Within Remix)Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Remix)Carl Hanaghan - Strings Of LifeDuke Dumont - I Got You (Dirty Secretz Bootleg)Klingande - Jubel
A one hour podcast from Europes finest nightclub and event management company, Sintillate. Founded in 1999, the company set out to provide an environment where fashion, music and film industries could mix in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere with cutting edge music. Fifteen years on, Sintillate are still leaders on the global party scene with regular parties across the UK and in Marbella, Mallorca, Dubai and the Alps. Best known for their world famous Champagne Spray parties in Marbella, Sintillate always has the hottest guestlist in town!Tracklisting: Oliver Heldens – Overdrive (Extended)Kiesza – Hideaway (Zac Samuel Remix)Example – One More Day (MJ Cole Remix)Gorgon City ft Laura Welsh – Here For You (Bingo Players Remix)Nile Rodgers – Do What You Wanna Do (Mk Disko Dub)Rene Amesz – Let Me (Original)MK ft Alana –Always (Route 94 Remix)Katy B – Still (Billon Remix)Dansson & marlon Hoffstadt – Shake That (Blonde Remix)Guest Session: Pete Bartella : Sintillate Marbella ResidentPharrell Williams - Marilyn MonroRobin Thicke/Marvin Gaye - Got To Give Up Blurred LinesFaul & Wad Ad - ChangesMariah Carey - You're Mine (Gregor Salto Remix)Hercules & Love Affair - Do U Feel The SameCalvin Harris - Summer WavesAndre Plati, Sugar Hill - Feel The Way I FeelSartini & Sumuele - You're No God For MeSecondcity - I Wanna FeelLancelot, Antony & Cleopatra - Givin It Up (Mk Remix)Ben Mono - How It IsthnPaul Woolford - Untitled (Call Out Your Name)
The first Sintillate Sessions features tracks from the new album 'Sintillate Marbella 2014’, available from iTunes on May 12, 2014. Sintillate’s musical director Rich Stone provides the guest mix. Hosted by Debbie Mac.Tracklisting: 1. SIGMA - Nobody To Love2. Tube and Berger ft. Juliet Sikora - Set It Off3. EDX - Cool You Off4. Disclosure ft. Sasha Keable - Voices5. Redlight ft. Lotti - 366. Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy (David Morales Remix)7. Josh Butler - Got A Feeling (Bontan and Pleasurekraft Remix)8. Shadowchild ft. Takura - Friday9. Ten Walls and Everything But The Girl - Missing Elephants (Stonez bootleg)10. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing on11. Route 94, Jess Glynne - My Love12. Patrick Topping - Forget13. Kiesza - Hideaway14. Marlon Hoffstadt, Dansson - Shake that15. Second City - I wanna feel16. Sage the Gemini - Gas Pedal (Motez edit)17. Larse - So long (Nice7 remix)
Barbara Baker from the Costa Blanca stands in for Neil Colbourne who is in the UK on an errand of mercy. AS he staggered off the pitch at the Parc des Princes last night, David Beckham looked an emotional wreck. His career had scanned three decades but it was time to say a tearful adieu to Paris — and professional football. With nine minutes remaining, the fourth official indicated that it was time for Becks to leave the field and nearly 45,000 Frenchmen rose to salute this guy from the other side of the Channel. The alleged price fixing in the oil markets and the alleged evasion of taxes by Google are seen from a female perspective. Is it still incredible that people are around who do not use the Internet? Barbara is one of the few who still have a resistance to the modern technology. A British father, 53, has become the first man in the world to have his prostate removed to beat cancer the dreaded flaw which struck Angelina Jolie. It was discovered he was carrying the BRCA2 gene during clinical trials at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London. Hollywood actress Angelina had a double mastectomy after testing positive for the rogue BRCA1 gene which is linked to breast cancer British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation, The Mail on Sunday has learned. Maddie disappeared from the Ocean Club at Praia da Luz in Portugal when she was on holiday with her family. Meanwhile, a couple have been imprisoned after police uncovered a crime ring involving the smuggling of babies from Morocco into Spain for sale. The married couple were sentenced to two years prison and fined €3,240 for their involvement in the purchase of a baby from Ceuta. Could there be a link?
Barbara Baker from the Costa Blanca stands in for Neil Colbourne who is in the UK on an errand of mercy. AS he staggered off the pitch at the Parc des Princes last night, David Beckham looked an emotional wreck. His career had scanned three decades but it was time to say a tearful adieu to Paris — and professional football. With nine minutes remaining, the fourth official indicated that it was time for Becks to leave the field and nearly 45,000 Frenchmen rose to salute this guy from the other side of the Channel. The alleged price fixing in the oil markets and the alleged evasion of taxes by Google are seen from a female perspective. Is it still incredible that people are around who do not use the Internet? Barbara is one of the few who still have a resistance to the modern technology. A British father, 53, has become the first man in the world to have his prostate removed to beat cancer the dreaded flaw which struck Angelina Jolie. It was discovered he was carrying the BRCA2 gene during clinical trials at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London. Hollywood actress Angelina had a double mastectomy after testing positive for the rogue BRCA1 gene which is linked to breast cancer British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation, The Mail on Sunday has learned. Maddie disappeared from the Ocean Club at Praia da Luz in Portugal when she was on holiday with her family. Meanwhile, a couple have been imprisoned after police uncovered a crime ring involving the smuggling of babies from Morocco into Spain for sale. The married couple were sentenced to two years prison and fined €3,240 for their involvement in the purchase of a baby from Ceuta. Could there be a link?
Here is my session at Ocean Club Marbella. The session starts with a few chill beachhouse tracks followed by some deep, soulful house tracks…Enjoy the listening. INFOS & BOOKING : www.deejay-cruz.com www.facebook.com/cruzofficialpage VIMEO > www.vimeo.com/92152109