Trump passes Mar-A-Largo to idiot son
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Jails, here, are short-term facilities (county lock-up for pre and post trial holding), whereas prisons are the long-term, final destinations you go to.
For instance, I’m in recovery, and I have a side gig as a recovery coach at a sober living facility, and we deal with folks who have DUIs…typically here in IL, anything up to a year (misdemeanor DUI) is served in the county jail and anything over a year, you’re sent to a prison (felony DUI).
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jail-- a place of detention for the accused before trial as well as those convicted and sentenced to less than one year.
prison-- a place of cobnfinement for persons serving more than one year.
prisons offer more services to the inmates. You might think that the jail, because it holds persons who have not yet been convicted of any crime is more humane, but you’d be wrong.
But I’m not a lawyer.
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I see Tr*mp is still up to his old shenanigans… county assessors estimate Mar-a-lago to be worth around ~$30M while the sale/transfer is being reported for $422M.
For the 2023 tax rolls, county appraisal team this month assigned Mar-a-Lago an estimated market value of $37 million and a preliminary taxable value of about $33.4 million, up from $31 million and $30.36 million, respectively, last year.
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Ok, thanks. I think that may be a very USian distinction.
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Correct. Jails are where people who have been arrested are held until they make bail, are released, or are convicted. Prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held for the duration of their sentence.
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The Express is a tabloid and is not a reliable source. There was no sale made. Zillow has reversed the improperly entered information (Zillow has long had a problem with not verifying information submitted/ingested, resulting in some real doozies). Running with a story when a single source just throws it out there seems kinda foolhardy these days. A quick glance at the Zillow entry for the MAL address when the erroneous data was still up revealed a number of details that were 100% sus. There’s a reason no other media outlet ran their own stories about it… it was a 10 second source check.
Edited to add: Under the Doctorow doctrine of Enshittification, there’s no reason to believe that Zillow will ever make any meaningful changes or implement any effective safeguards to correct such issues. It is far cheaper for them to put out individual fires that rise above a certain attention threshold than to pay developers to cat-and-mouse the bad actors attacks on the data inputs. The additional profits to be made from being more accurate are negligible compared to their profits from their core business (referrals). Because of this, Zillow will never be any more reliable of a source than any other data scraper.
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Given that the “sale” is just moving Trump family money from one account to another, what is the advantage of selling at an inflated price?
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Is the sale price lower than the county assessors’ valuation?
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I don’t understand your question. There was no sale. The whole thing was a hoax.
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I missed the “there was no sale made” part.
What did you mean by “Zillow has reversed the improperly entered information”?
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It is possible that a more recent sale took place as an internal transaction within the Trump family that would not be recorded via traditional deed.
Newsweek reported the alleged property sale, saying that it may have been transferred to an organization owned by his son Donald Trump Jr., but records show Trump Jr. has been behind the Mar-a-Lago Club LLC since 2017. via themessenger
So, how easy is it to hack a Zillow database?
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To quote Mr. Rossmann, “It’s not lying, it’s Commercial Real Estate!”
(and yes, I know it was a bogus entry; but still… the real estate industry in general is seriously jacked up.)
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Also bonus:
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Came here to say this was probably the case.
That article was completely full of unverified stupidity. Take this quote:
Those two sentences contain MULTIPLE errors:
- Sunbiz doesn’t show property ownership. It shows corporate registration information.
- The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser, however, DOES show property ownership, and it shows that the property is owned by Mar A Lago Club, Inc. (not Mar A Lago, Inc., which doesn’t exist).
- The annual report for Mar A Lago Club, Inc. (which @anon48584343 also posted) shows that Don Jr. is the President, Director, Chairman, VP, Secretary, and Treasurer of the corporation, but doesn’t say anything about ownership (ownership of private corporations in Florida isn’t public information). It makes sense that Don Jr. (and not his dad) would have been in those roles since 2017 since Trump supposedly passed all management of his real estate agent to his large sons when he became president.
- Don Jr. isn’t the registered agent. The agent is the Corporation Service Company, a big company that serves as registered agent for thousands (maybe millions) of corporate entities.
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Snort,
Ahhhhh,
That’s the sound of the men,
Workin’ in Coke Mine
Next you’ll be conflating the Hoosegow with the Calaboose 
Plus, of course, Jail is really spelt Gaol.
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In Trump’s case I’m spelling it:
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That was a bit of a pokey response. You could adopt a more penitentiary attitude about it.
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Welcome to BoingBoing! /s
Did you create an account just to come and diss the name of the site and try to start an argument about “liberals”?
Good luck with that!
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