Monday, October 2, 2017

Shedding More Light on Trump's Puerto Rico Response

This story comes from BuzzFeed almost exactly a year ago...
Donald Trump claimed he had a plan to save a failing Puerto Rican golf resort: He would streamline its budget and attract new members. Those promises, repeated for years, helped the club sell a raft of government-backed bonds that it had very little chance of repaying.

Trump collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from the resort, but he never did oversee the golf course's daily operations. He didn’t attract more than a handful of new members or reduce its multimillion-dollar annual losses. Its costly, self-dealing contracts remained in place. In late 2011, six months after selling the bonds, the club defaulted, leaving Puerto Rican taxpayers — already suffering through a major economic crisis — on the hook for as much as $32.7 million, according to an analysis by the Securities Litigation and Consulting Group.

  Daniel Wagner
Making this series of tweets even more despicable...


Continue reading.

Summarized:



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

No comments: