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Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess.

Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess.

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor nearly a quarter-century, President Trump has envisioned boats docking at Mar-a-Lago, his swanky club set on 17 acres of prime real estate in Palm Beach, Fla., that rambles across manicured grounds between the beach and the placid waters of the Lake Worth Lagoon and the Intracoastal Waterway.Trump’s quest has, predictably, irked his wealthy neighbors, sparking one of those pesky territorial squabbles that occupy town halls and zoning boards in tony neighborhoods across the country. But the attempt by Trump and his...

May 8, 2020
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Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere

Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareNext-door neighbors of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., that he has called his Winter White House, have a message for the outgoing commander in chief: We don’t want you to be our neighbor.That message was formally conveyed Tuesday morning in a demand letter delivered to the town of Palm Beach and also addressed to the U.S. Secret Service asserting that Trump lost his legal right to live at Mar-a-Lago because of an agreement he signed in the early 1990s when he converted the storied estate...

December 15, 2020
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Roger Stone keeps appearing in Capitol breach investigation court filings

Roger Stone keeps appearing in Capitol breach investigation court filings

ADRoger Stone’s name and image were invoked by prosecutors and defendants in court filings over the last week, underscoring the increasingly visible presence of former president Donald Trump’s political confidant in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach investigation.On Wednesday, U.S. prosecutors produced a photograph they said was shared on Facebook on Dec. 15 showing two Florida members of the right-wing Oath Keepers group who were later charged in the riot posing with five others next to someone who appears to be Stone at a book signing.All the faces are redacted except for the two...

March 22, 2021
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An Italian restaurant survived 37 years — until the pandemic. Here are its employees’ stories.

An Italian restaurant survived 37 years — until the pandemic. Here are its employees’ stories.

Voraciously Sergio Ristorante Italiano survived 37 years — until the pandemic. Here are its employees’ stories. Sergio Ristorante Italiano survived 37 years — until the pandemic. Here are its employees’ stories. Sergio and Valerie Toni drink coffee in their closed restaurant in Silver Spring. By The show lasted nearly 37 years. You could catch it almost every night, from Monday to Saturday, in the unlikely venue of a basement of a Doubletree Hotel in downtown Silver Spring. There, at Sergio Ristorante Italiano, Sergio Toni and his son, Luigi, took center stage in shirt sleeves and neckties,...

March 9, 2021
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President Trump and Attorney General William Barr are a perfect match. The question is, who’s using whom?

President Trump and Attorney General William Barr are a perfect match. The question is, who’s using whom?

How President Trump and his attorney general use each other Attorney General William P. Barr in September. By One evening in May 1992, an obscure Catholic lay society in Arlington, Va., presented its annual award to a 41-year-old political insider wise to Washington’s sub rosa realms. His name: William Pelham Barr. It was a coup for the Brent Society. Despite its low profile, the group had landed a star honoree and featured speaker who had become attorney general of the United States of America just six months earlier after having served a stint as the acting holder of that post. As he was...

September 15, 2020
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