She appeared in ad bragging about how she needed the best service and the most luxury stuff. That s why you stay at her hotels. A familiar shtick. But it worked for her in the 1980s. Until it didn t. Turns out, despite being a billionaire, despite not only the image of immense ctuality o engaged in tax cheats, including having a bunch of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut. Her private home. It was renovations on that home, including putting in a dance floor and stuff. She billed the renovations to the hotel company. She had the company pay to do the renovations on her private home. That had for her the double benefit of her not having to pay for those renovations herself and also her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense. Even though they weren t. It was just stuff she wanted personally. She went to prison. The trial where she got convicted, probably made her more famous than her hotels had. This is a headline july 12, 1989 in the new york times
Some of her hotels bragging about how rich and exacting she was and how she needed all of the best stuff. She insisted on it in all of had err hotels and why you should come stay at her hotels. Kind of familiar but it worked for the 1980s until it didn t. Turns out despite being a billionaire and not only the image of immense wealth. Leona helmsly and her husband had engaged in a couple of chizling tech cheats including a couple of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut. Renovations like putting in a dance floor but she billed the renovations to the hotel company. She had the hotel pay to do those renovations on her private home that had the double benefit of not having to pay for those and also her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense, even though they weren t. It was just stuff she wanted personally. Yeah, she went to prison. The trial where she got convicted probably made her even more famous than the hotels. Only the little people paid taxes at
areas with kids shoulder to shoulder sleeping on mats on the floor. 10% have tested positive for covid and it s a problem. dana: there are the pull factors. why are people continuing to come? why is there another caravan forming in guatemala? they must think they have a shot of getting in. bill: team fox coverage. we mentioned a lot to get to. great guests. marc shortcoming up used to work in mike pence. peter doocy from the north lawn. let s start at the border. casey stiegel is live in eagle pass, texas, there again today. casey, good morning. bill and dana, good morning to you. just as you were tossing out to me the live drone pictures that s a live apprehension going on as we speak not terribly far from us. the drone has been in the air for 15 minutes this morning. we already have a group. we got more than three or four different groups live yesterday just by the air. to further break out those numbers you were showing before you got to me they are quite astonishing
hampshire which will be a town hall, same format as sunday s debate here on cnn. dana bash joins us with the details and political strategy behind this. this basically seems like an obvious dry run for sunday night. one source told me it was a scrimmage. they really want donald trump to kind of retain his muscle memory from town halls. he hasn t done as many town halls as chris christie or john mccain who basically lived in new hampshire where a town hall is part of the political tdna there. but the fact is they want him to be in an intimate settic just like on sunday night. they have chosen the place where chris christie had his first down hall when he announced for president in 2016. and chris christie is involved in trying to get donald trump ready stylistically for the idea
said, explicitly to me and others that what made him success flfl that debate. he had the practice. one texted me as it was going on last night, practice practice, it matter. i spoke to a source familiar wi