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A top Mar-a-Lago employee is also working for the government to help prepare for President Trump's visit to Taormina, Italy, for the G-7 Summit an unconventional arrangement that further blurs the line between the president's business empire and the White House.
Heather Rinkus, the guest reception manager at Trump's "Winter White House," is working with the president's advance and logistics team, while Trump's exclusive club, Mar-a-Lago, closes for the summer. She has an official White House email and government-issued phone, two sources familiar with Rinkus trip told BuzzFeed News.
An administration source confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that Rinkus was officially listed as an advance associate for the Taormina leg of the trip and had government-issued blackberry and email.
She is married to a twice-convicted felon, Ari Rinkus, who is known to brag about his wife's access to the president as he trawls for investors and pursues government contracts on behalf of a foreign company, BuzzFeed News previously detailed.
Ari Rinkus, who is still on probation for pleading guilty to wire fraud as part of a Ponzi scheme, has told a foreign company, Securablinds, he can use Heather's access to the president to secure government and Trump Organization contracts, BuzzFeed News previously reported.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/a-top-mar-a-lago-employee-is-quietly-doing-government-work?utm_term=.drA7Ebr2#.jvRDWBV2
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(1,107 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)rockfordfile
(8,695 posts)dhill926
(16,309 posts)jesus christ...
mzteaze
(448 posts)It gets better.
At the very end of the article, it points out that she was a front desk supervisor and then a nanny (!) for Betsy DeVos before she wound up at Mar-a-Lago.
Just how does one get on THAT career path.
Oh and her husband is a felon who's last crime involved a ponzi scheme.
You can't make this up if you tried.