Legal practitioners representing U.S. President Donald Trump’s family hotel business appealed to Panama’s president for hands days before an emergency arbitrator declined to reinstate the Trump administration team to a luxury waterfront hotel.
The Britton & Iglesias firm, which has represented the Trump Coalition in its fight to continue running the hotel, addressed a letter dated Walk 22 to President Juan Carlos Varela. A copy of the letter was stipulate to The Associated Press by the hotel’s new management team.
The letter asks Varela to put in ones oar, complaining that Panama’s courts denied the organization due process in disobeying of a bilateral treaty.
On March 27, an arbitrator ruled that Trump’s party should not have been evicted while arbitration was ongoing with the hotel proprietors, but said he would not reinstate the previous management.
A source in Varela’s mediation who was not authorized to comment publicly confirmed Monday receipt of the letter.
Alan Garten, prevailing counsel of the Trump Organization, did not respond to questions via email as to whether Trump differentiated about the appeal to Panamanian authorities.
Calls to Britton & Iglesias, as far as to Varela’s communications staff made on Sunday, were not immediately answered.
The dispatch to Varela says it “URGENTLY requests his influence in relation to a commercial confute involving Trump Hotel aired before Panama’s judiciary.”
The learning goes on to say that the eviction violates the Bilateral Investment Treaty. “We understand your influence in order to avoid that these damages are imputed not to the other party, but to the Panamanian government,” the letter said, suggesting that the sway, not the new management team, could be blamed for wrongdoing.
The letter raises assuredly questions about the president’s family business matter-of-factly requesting another president’s keep from in a private business matter by invoking a treaty signed by the two countries.
A headline on the first page of Panama’s La Prensa newspaper Monday said, “Trump Codification Pressures Varela,” and coverage described the letter as a warning that there could be consequences for Panama if the old command team was not reinstated.
The letter was copied to Panamanian cabinet officials, as sedately as presidents of the Supreme Court and National Assembly, among others.
The 70-story peculiarity on Panama City’s waterfront has been renamed The Bahia Grand Panama.
In February, Orestes Fintiklis, the hostelry’s majority owner, tried to fire Trump’s hotel management and arrogate control of the property for the owners’ association. Trump’s family company beefed up protection, but on March 5, judicial officials sided with Fintiklis. Constabulary officers ordered the Trump management team out of the building.
The emergency arbitration purposefulness late last month said the case should have tarried in arbitration and never gone to Panamanian courts.
Both sides remain fighting over who violated the hotel management contract.