Remember When Trump Took Insurance $ for Hurricane Damage That Reportedly Didn't Exist?

[DonViejo]

by Alberto Luperon | 6:28 pm, August 27th, 2017

As tropical storm Harvey batters its way through Texas, flooding the Gulf Coast at unprecedented levels, it might be interesting to look at President Donald Trump‘s own relationship with hurricanes, or the lack thereof.

In October, The Associated Press reported that the then-candidate claimed to have taken $17 million in insurance money for storm damage to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

“Landscaping, roofing, walls, painting, leaks, artwork in the — you know, the great tapestries, tiles, Spanish tiles, the beach, the erosion,” he said in a 2007 deposition. “It’s still not what it was.”

That was news to other locals and former Trump employees. Former butler Anthony Senecal told the AP that only some nearby trees were flattened and some roof titles were knocked off. He claimed to be there for the series of storms, from 2004 to 2005, that supposedly caused such expensive damage to the resort. (Trump disavowed Senecal in an unrelated May 2016 Facebook post because the former butler called for the assassination of Barack Obama. The then-candidate said he fired him in 2009.)

The Associated Press looked at construction permits from after the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, and only found documentation for small projects, like tree trimming. The only stuff that reportedly appeared hurricane-related was $3,000 to vacuum sand from a beachfront pool, and to fix outdoor lighting.

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[LiberalBrooke]

1. Who was the insurance adjuster?

For every claim, no matter how small, I have had an insurance adjuster make their own estimate before I was paid. How could they pay that amount of money without documentation?

[elehhhhna]

2. Baksheesh

[marylandblue]

3. If you are unscrupulous enough

You can hoodwink or bribe an insurance adjuster. You could, for example, cover you roof with a tarp and say all the tiles are gone underneath. Works great as long as the adjuster doesn't look under the tarp.

This works even better after a major 3vent, when the adjusters have too many claims to investigate them all properly.