A Scottish Judge Could Expose Trump's Shady Golf Finances

[Jilly_in_VA]

A judge in Scotland will hold a two-day hearing this week that could end up forcing former President Donald Trump to go through something he dreads and has successfully avoided for years back home: a financial colonoscopy.

Lord Sandison, the judge overseeing the case, will decide whether the Scottish government can use a new anti-money laundering tool to investigate how Trump suddenly came up with $60 million in cash to buy and establish the Trump Turnberry golf resort in 2014.

The purchase aroused suspicion because the all-cash deal was part of a multi-million dollar spending spree on three golf courses in the British Isles—at a time when his 10 percent stake in the casino business bearing his name, Trump Entertainment Resorts, was in peril as the company was filing for bankruptcy.

“Do we continue to ignore the towering cloud of suspicion over Trump Turnberry?” said Nick Flynn, legal director of a watchdog group that’s pressuring the Scottish government to act.

It’s a potential move that the Trump operations there stand strongly against.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-scottish-judge-could-expose-donald-trumps-shady-golf-finances-turnberry?ref=home

[Walleye]

1. He won't find many sympathetic allies over there

[cbabe]

2. Payback time for destruction of sensitive sand dunes

environment he promised to protect.

[cbabe]

4. Apologies for double post. First a warning the post can't be posted,

then it double posts. This has happened a couple times?

[SergeStorms]

8. You could delete one of them.

Sometimes your Wi-Fi slows down (see: throttling) or if you're in a rural area with dial-up, you'll get that message. Sometimes it will double post if the upload speed increases suddenly, or sometimes it'll just post once.

Just delete one of the posts. Problem solved.

[ShazzieB]

10. It's happened to me, too.

I just hit the "self-delete" button on one of them as soon as I see the dupe.

[cbabe]

14. Done. Thanks.

[sarcasmo]

5. Trump could be

Exposed
Deposed
Arrested
Charged
Convicted

[gab13by13]

6. Yeah but there's that "C" word - Could.

[FakeNoose]

7. Isn't that Turnberry property losing boatloads of money?

The Scottish government could do Chump a favor and confiscate the Turnberry Resort. Chump is probably going to lose it anyway because of mismanagement and failure to attract customers. At least if they take it away from him, he'll have something to rage about and start a media-sniping war over.

[Pepsidog]

9. And Dumb and Dumber bragged on video about all the Russian money financing the deals.

[SergeStorms]

11. He doesn't need a financial colonoscopy....

what they really need is a financial enema.

A highly unpleasant visual, to be sure, but if you want to see everything he's been hiding up there, let's get it out into plain view. If the Scot's can handle Haggis, they could stomach picking through the minutiae of Trump's digested financial diet. 😁

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. A big foul, steaming, orange haggis.

Now that's a visual!

[Xolodno]

13. "All Cash" in Real Estate and certain life insurance policies...

...is a huge red flag for money laundering.