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Eugene

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Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:09 AM Jan 2018

Panama Hotel votes to drop Trump - but his company won't go

Source: Associated Press

Panama Hotel votes to drop Trump _ but his company won’t go

By JEFF HORWITZ
27 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — An attempt to oust President Donald Trump’s hotel business from managing a luxury hotel in Panama has turned bitter, with accusations of financial misconduct.

Trump Hotels is contesting its firing, and its staff ran off a team of Marriott executives invited last month to visit the property during a search for a new hotel operator, according to two people familiar with the matter.

After the owners’ association accused Trump Hotels of mismanagement and financial misconduct in a $15 million arbitration claim, the company owned by the president fired back with a $200 million counterclaim and refused to turn over the property’s financial records. When a team from Marriott International Inc. came to the property at the invitation of the hotel’s majority owner, Trump staff asked them to leave, according to the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss publicly what happened behind the scenes.

The head of Trump Hotels, Eric Danziger, also called Marriott chief executive Arne Sorenson to complain about the visit, the two people said.

Marriott generally steers clear of properties facing ownership and management disputes. But the call from a senior Trump executive to the CEO of Marriott, which manages more than 6,000 hotels, raised the awkward matter of how American companies interact with a business owned by the president.

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Panama Hotel votes to drop Trump - but his company won't go (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2018 OP
Remember close ties between Marriott and Romney unc70 Jan 2018 #1

unc70

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1. Remember close ties between Marriott and Romney
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 04:34 AM
Jan 2018

Adds an extra angle to the interplay between Trump hotels and Marriott.

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