Donald Trump "bankrupted" a golf course in Puerto Rico, leaving taxpayers there on the hook for $33 million worth of debt. A Trump company was unable to save a floundering Puerto Rico golf club and resort from bankruptcy after entering into a management and brand licensing agreement with its owners in 2008.
One is the iconic Turnberry near Glasgow, which he bought in 2014, and the other is Trump Golf Links International in Aberdeenshire. These resorts lose millions of dollars every year, and neither has turned a profit since Trump purchased them. Both resorts are also dependent on loans from Trump and US-owned entities to stay afloat.
One is the iconic Turnberry near Glasgow, which he bought in 2014, and the other is Trump Golf Links International in Aberdeenshire. These resorts lose millions of dollars every year, and neither has turned a profit since Trump purchased them.
The course has lost money every year since. Company accounts for 2019 — which covered the period before COVID-19 wreaked havoc on many businesses — showed that Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited, which owns the course, posted an annual loss of $1.5 million.
Puerto Rico formally exits bankruptcy after public debt restructuring. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's government formally exited bankruptcy Tuesday, completing the largest public debt restructuring in U.S. history after announcing nearly seven years ago that it was unable to pay its more than $70 billion debt.
Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles is a public golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California with a 7,242-yard (6,622 m) course designed by Pete Dye and Donald J....Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles.Club informationEstablishedJanuary 20, 2006TypePublicOwned byThe Trump OrganizationTotal holes188 more rows
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The land on which the course is situated is owned by the City of Palos Verdes Estates, and the club is operated under a concession agreement with the city.
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His role in the bankruptcy of the company, which ended up costing Puerto Rican taxpayers $32.6 million, was significant but limited. That $32.6 million loss constituted 0.03 percent of the territory’s total $123 billion debt, which prompted the Puerto Rican government to file for bankruptcy relief in May 2017.
By October 2011, Coco Beach had defaulted on $26 million in bonds and had to seek another round of financing. In 2015, the company filed for bankruptcy under its original name, Coco Beach Golf and Country Club, citing debts of more than $78 million but only $9 million in assets. Bankruptcy court records show that Puerto Rico’s Tourism Development ...
After the agreement, the Puerto Rican government issued bonds to help finance the project, and shortly after selling them, the club defaulted—leaving Puerto Rico taxpayers, as Green suggests, on the hook for more than $30 million.
On Friday several tweets alleging that President Don ald Trump left Puerto Ricans with massive debt went viral following the president’s remarks about the island territory and the recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
So by the time the club and the Trump Organization were first joining forces, Puerto Rico's unemployment rate was already climbing. It rose from 10.6 percent in March 2008 to an eventual peak of 17 percent in May 2010.
Puerto Rico had lost a powerful economic driver the previous year: the so-called Section 936 federal tax write-off for companies with money-earning subsidiaries on the island. The tax shelter had been especially popular with the pharmaceutical industry.
When the Trump International Golf Club filed for Bankruptcy in July 2015 -- just a month after Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign -- Trump's family members did everything they could to distance themselves from the failed project. See full story.
In 2006, Trump and billionaire condo king Jorge Perez began selling a 23-story apartment building near Trump's exclusive club, Mar-a-Lago, but the project was abandoned a year later because of slow sales.
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The Trump family distanced itself from the project’s failure, claiming that the real estate developer merely licensed his name to the property. But a review of hundreds of pages of corporate and legal filings, undertaken by BuzzFeed News, shows that Trump promised the club’s investors and the government of Puerto Rico something entirely different.
The two courses of what was first named the Coco Beach Golf & Country Club cover a peninsula on the island’s northeast corner, near the El Yunque rainforest. The surrounding resort includes a luxury hotel, timeshares, and the Trump Founders Residences, condos whose buyers are required to join the golf club.
In effect, Trump was guaranteed income even if the project lost money; by the end of 2012, he had claimed more than $600,000.
To Craig McCann, of the Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, who has testified in cases involving Puerto Rico municipal bonds, Trump’s promise to put the club in the black was “ridiculous on its face.” McCann wondered “how this statement can be made repeatedly when the resort had huge negative cash flows every year from 2008 when Trump took over to 2012 and beyond.”.
Trump has two golf resorts in Scotland. He opened the first, Trump International Golf Links, in Aberdeenshire in 2012 on a piece of land he had purchased six years before. The course has lost money every year since.
Trump said in a 2016 interview with Reuters that people looking at the massive losses at his golf resorts were missing the point.
"Stupidity and grandiosity should never be overlooked as possible grounds for all of this," said Daniel Shaviro, the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School, who wrote about Trump's tax returns last year.
Companies House accounts showed that Golf Recreation Scotland, Turnberry's parent company, depends on an eye-watering amount of debt — around $160 million — owed to its parent company, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which is registered in New York.
A group of Scottish lawmakers led by the Green Party's Patrick Harvie this year called for an "unexplained wealth order" over Trump's finances. Their central question: Where did Trump get the money to pay for his resorts in the first place?