
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is currently investigating whether Donald Trump isn’t any longer eligible to carry a liquor license at his three New Jersey golf courses resulting from his recent felony convictions in New York.
A spokeswoman for the office said Monday that it was reviewing whether Trump’s conviction on 34 counts, including paying hush money to a porn star and falsifying business records to hide it, should affect the previous president’s continued ability to carry liquor licenses.
State law prohibits anyone convicted of against the law “involving moral turpitude” from holding a liquor license.
The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which is under 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 agency said in an email Monday.
According to the department, one in all the necessities included on this calculation is that “the person must be of honorable character and can be expected to conduct the licensed business in an honorable manner.”
His manual describes this in additional detail: “The term ‘moral turpitude’ denotes a serious crime from the point of view of society as a whole and generally contains elements of dishonesty, fraud or depravity.”
Trump owns golf courses in Bedminster, Colts Neck and Pine Hill in New Jersey, all of which have valid liquor licenses.
He not owns a casino in Atlantic City, where his former company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, once operated three.
Messages left Monday with Trump’s presidential campaign and the Trump Organization, the previous president’s company, weren’t immediately returned.
The verdict against Trump within the New York case is scheduled to be announced on July 11, shortly before he receives the Republican nomination for president in the overall election in November.
