The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is examining whether Donald Trump’s recent felony charges in New York disqualify him from holding liquor licenses at three New Jersey golf courses.
On Monday, a spokeswoman for the office said it was reviewing whether Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts, including paying hush money to a porn star and falsifying business records in an attempt to cover it up, would affect the former president’s continued ability to hold licenses. sale of alcoholic beverages.
State law prohibits anyone convicted of a crime “involving moral turpitude” from holding a liquor license.
The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, part of the attorney general’s office, “is reviewing the impact of President Trump’s conviction on the above-mentioned licenses and declines further comment at this time,” a spokeswoman for the office said in a statement. email on Monday.
Part of what goes into this calculation, according to the division, is the requirement that “the individual must be of reputable character and expected to conduct the licensed business in an honorable manner.”
His handbook states in more detail: “The term moral turpitude denotes a serious crime from the point of view of society as a whole and usually contains elements of dishonesty, fraud or debauchery.”
Trump owns golf courses in Bedminster, Colts Neck and Pine Hill in New Jersey, all of which have active liquor licenses.
He no longer owns casinos in Atlantic City, where his former company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, once operated three.
Messages left Monday for the Trump campaign as well as the Trump Organization, the former president’s company, were not immediately returned.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in the New York case on July 11, shortly before he is nominated for the Republican presidential nomination in the November general election.