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Related: About this forumTrump's Palm Beach Mansion Is Haunted by Financial Crime
In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law.
Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News nervously followed every zig and zag of Trump's crass galumph through island society. "Just about anything he does qualifies as news," the Post exclaimed November 3, 1993. The future president's scheme to turn the old Marjorie Post estate at Mar-a-Lago, which he had purchased eight years earlier, into a social club was gauche but exciting. Not since the Pulitzer divorce in 1982 had any island happening promised so much public tawdriness. Indeed, when the town council resisted Trump's rezoning plan, he threatened to sell Mar-a-Lago to Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon.
Meanwhile, Greyling a rotund white South African arriviste purchased the mansion at 1094 South Ocean Blvd., next door to Mar-a-Lago, in October 1993. Or rather, he bought the shell company, L&V Investments, that owned the mansion. In this way, both Greyling and the sellers kept the sale price from the public record.
The property sits on the southwest corner of the intersection of South Ocean and Woodbridge Road, and though not the most opulent of the 14 properties along Woodbridge, it is the one closest to the Atlantic Ocean, to which it has access. A single-story home that takes up about 6,500 square feet, including the cabana house off the large pool, it has marble floors and an orange-beige exterior.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)gordianot
(15,237 posts)He is the poster child of what happens when white collar crime is ignored. Apparently being President is far better than buying justice. Government is easily turned into a personal asset while President.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Seems shady people have always been drawn to Don the Con. He must give off vibes that attract the sleaziest of them all. His biggest ass-et is his blatant lying. HE is incapable of telling the truth. Lies come so much more easily to him. He has been able to avoid consequences so far. The time to take this s-o-b down is finally here. The gop must be so proud, they are protecting a criminal. People have served prison time for less than the crimes he has been party to. A cheap Mafia wannabe has taken a once great country down to its knees.