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I would rather like to rephrase the question as Short term issues due to knowledge limitations and execution issues due to lack of technological innovation/advances/advancement and implementation.The biggest one is answered here at the link below. Neither humans are developed properly nor technology had reached at a place it can help on it's own. The “Goal” is missed. (Defect in Six Sigma terms - but I don't want any statistical drama). Many times I felt as if the experimental world of Divergent is real at many places (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant) Or is it Dogville/Manderlay or The Stepford Wives. Or even Resident Evil series.Nobody tells you directly, but if you watch Bollywood’s Sarkar (Sarkar, Sarkar Raj, Sarkar 3) series of movies or Raajneeti, you become suspicious of many incidents or rumours/unknown conversations in the air. Anyway that portray something extreme and maybe irrational, so I never quote such movies anywhere, though 95+% of what we see or read need very careful filtering. Else entire visualization goes for a toss.Answer to What is the meaning of "in God we trust, rest bring data"? by Lav Khandelwal Lav Khandelwal's answer to What is the meaning of "in God we trust, rest bring data"?Some smaller incidents compared to the one described above are as under:Quora Incidents:Quora Moderation deleted answers that were needed to reach a particular community by using a link to other answer. This is biasing as it doesn't allow you to refer someone to your answer to similar other question. And supporting groups that're misusing the facility to create similar question and keeping the original creator of the concept out of it. Even merging of different questions and answers leads to loss of log of edits and original answer date. I am not sitting in typical Indian MBA entrance GD, so I give a damn f**k to their rules and regulations of writing or speaking. Many criminals want to hide their activities and Quora teams is missing to see sometimes and they collapse answers. It's like telling people about Corona virus to prevent its spread and taking precautions.Response from Quora about non-receipt of Edit Notifications: “Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that your followers will receive notifications regarding your content. There are many factors that contribute to what kind of notifications they receive. - topics they've followed, users they've followed, content they've upvoted, etc. If they don't want to miss any of your content, the best thing to do is tell them to visit your Quora page weekly and check your Answers feed.”US Visa and Citizenship:I strongly doubt people are selectively wiped out of the queue for US Visa and citizenship. They can't fulfill the requirements of minimum stay because (in many cases) they are forcefully sent back to native countries by utilizing illegal methods by competitors, unless they are doing the shit job of sycophant and bribing the competition or making illegal groups. Obviously, the reason is limited number of visas or citizenship opportunities.Other Incidents:Biggest one are the donations in places of worships like temples, beggars, etc. There is records only on trust and these amounts are returned indirectly in some or other form. The money that was supposed to be utilized in some specific official task is literally misused this way. It has became the biggest source for hiding black money and transferring it (hawala) to different places and people. (Under emotional breakdown many years back, I once donated all money in my wallet that day, about 2700+, in a temple in Government residential premises without anyone knowing about it just to fix issues of my wife and daughter leaving me. No benefits received yet. I wish I had gifted something to my daughter rather than wasting it — for that matter, I feel the same for any unwanted expenses due to carelessness might be done in improper mental state/physical health. It's not about limited money supply but use of the same for commitments made for love and future we dreamt)I am not sure if this is true, but I heard long time back that there are few companies (sending it's employees to overseas countries in bulk), purchase background clearance certificate (clear medical, criminal and credit history) for traveling employees. I understand that they're paying for expedited services that are not officially and legally allowed. On the other hand, there are companies and people waiting for long for their turns. Seems like everything is fine in capitalism, it may also sounds like corruption in certain forms of governance.Moreover, forcing private companies to get Government employees job done (either due to lack of resources or better expertise acquired by private companies by developing it's workforce), it opens up the areas of privacy, secrecy and confidentiality to individuals operating in private businesses. And it's quite possible that such information — equivalent to insiders information in share market — might be misused. eg Online Aadhar Card Authentication that was open once to every company is no more available to private companies.I also noticed that few elements in Government or Private do misuse their network also to keep others out. And some follow practices like hacking into other mobile or Internet network and misusing it. It's totally illegal and unethical and perfectly understood at CEO or corporate levels or higher Government levels, few employees operating at lower levels still have such tendencies, leading to illegal harassment of others. And it might be just for fun rather than any serious intentions. However, with changing times and fast development, everyone is developing better understanding and gaining better knowledge at all levels. And they understand losses to all due to this and are avoiding such things.Also there are companies who value age or experience, while others don't differentiate based on caste, class, creed, age, country or place of origin or gender. Still others are family based companies, most successful presently in the business world. There are many questionable issues here in every form and it's way of operation, interaction with Government and sets of rights and wrongs.I also noticed long back that some papers were missing. I understand that online purchase do provide security at different levels, it doesn't mean you stress it's importance by stealing someone's hard copy paper bills.Read these as well:Lav Khandelwal's answer to What made you resign from your previous job?Lav Khandelwal's answer to What is the meaning of "in God we trust, rest bring data"?Other Incidents:Government Authorized dairies like Sanchi in Indore, MP are supplying milk with some peculiar smell and taste, affecting health to large extent. I doubt it contains harmful chemicals affecting heart health leading to attacks. However, the papers are printing news that local businesses are supplying bad/contaminated/poisoned milk. My health issues resolved after consuming milk ordered from private business in last few days. Are the allegations baseless? Or samples picked by Government for checking are purposely exchanged? Impure food is just not limited to milk. It's prevalent in anything and everything a normal humans eats - degree, place and timings keep on changing. Sometimes people spend for show-off also, resulting in compromises at other fronts - an elephant have different tooth for eating and showing the world. To some extent, the food items are changed while it is in use, once it reaches people you can't trust anymore.RTO Related:I strongly believe that people in any sort of Government job should be able to think and visualize the needs of citizens. They should be able to think at least 5 decades or centuries ahead in future, if the present conditions prevent them to think 5 millenniums ahead in future. However, there was no facility for obtaining NoC (using some form of technology) till 2010s, if vehicle is moved out in other states. It was required to have the vehicle in the state to get the NoC, and this is the situation when leaders spoke about “Digital ….”. Unfortunately, I had to pay hundreds of times (with or without fine receipts) for the ineffectiveness and inefficient officials and their systems. And I feel very bad about it. Time and resources never permitted me to bring such issues up.Drugged or improper or unbalanced food and nutrition is the cause of many problems. And that's available in many houses, thanks to the Government or schools or families who never taught their children about Nutrition. Irrelevant subjects should be replaced by something that keeps a person healthy and fit for lifetime. It doesn't ends here, things are not implemented but are banned also by traditional old habituated people. They have no idea of the needs of others, but poke their nose everywhere. 80–90% more people would have been alive and healthy if such idiots didn't interfered. Even if people know or are from health organizations, they never tell right things to employees or families. My family members suffered illness and deaths due to this reason. That's how Doctors are richest community in such countries. Next biggest corruption. People in authority are also servents of the criminals as they or their families need healthy life. I was injected by drugs in my stomach in train by such as*h*le criminal doctor to destroy my digestive system in 2015/16 and 2019, when I was traveling to meet my wife Pinakshi. Many times I doubt criminals are very much in immediate network but I don't want to name them yet due to non-disclosure agreement with the best investigating team in India. I also doubt that I was sleeping for 7 days in Thane flat (after my wife left me) due to some injection by an as*h*le criminal Doctor.Very old incident: If credit rating agency reported correctly, someone owns a debit or credit card for other person. And this belongs to SBI and SCB. Identity was not checked when issuing cards. You get a call to confirm if you ordered the card. And deny it if you haven't. SBI (State Bank of India) and SCB (Standard Chartered Bank) or for that matter any bank ideally shouldn't issue any cards to anyone else - unless they have unbeatable process in place to prevent fake credit history of a person. All incidents shared were prior to the time Aadhar was made mandatory in this decade (2010+).UberEats invoices sometimes quote wrong delivery address. And it never mentions order number. It's all are not necessary as Uber is designed based on location proximity of rides or delivery person, the same can be easily changed by location changing software and delivery can be shown to made at a place you never visited (if your phone is hacked or misused by someone)I had some pen drive that had very important encrypted data on it. I travelled to Mumbai/Navigation Mumbai/Thane with it sometimes in 2014 or 15. I am not sure but some bunch of idiots (might include police department as well for their surveillance) working with biggest idiots in technology destroyed the data with encryption that it couldn't be recovered till date.I wonder why malls at entry check the bags by opening it in most cities (seen 2011 till 2018) whereas only Bangalore city malls just scan with a hand scanner to detect any harmful contents.Losing printed invoice (bill/receipt) of smartphone from home and feelings thereafter is something that can't be described. I have experienced it few times and latest very recently.Fake Bills:Many restaurants/hotels/travel agents are experts in issuing fake bills to unknown persons/entities to charge them to companies/government offices. The person against whom they charge the bills are totally unknown that the bills are submitted in his or her name nor he enjoyed any of the facilities mentioned on the bills. This corruption is due to the fact that people in many countries don't follow Maslow's hierarchy of needs and they are educated so that their life would be better by getting a job. They don't learn or educate because their life is excellent and now they can do something better by educating themselves.Unlimited payment methodsLike US, now-a-days, each and every store or company is offering it's own payment methods. PayTM, JIOMoney, etc are few amongst the hundreds of online wallets for online payment. These are different from the normal credit cards usually issued by every stores. The Auto and Taxi service providers have their own wallet and credit cards. Jugnoo, Ola, Uber, etc. Some of these wallets can be used anywhere, right from grocery shopping to medicines ordering. The payment would be tracked by wallet entries, but it prevents your banks from tracking your spending. So if you pay 3000 for OlaMoney, chances are that you might have not used Taxi or even travelled even once during the billing cycle. But you used money to purchase medicines or groceries. Nobody can track you via card swiping. The good part is each wallet is linked to your mobile and these are tied to the owner of SIM. So any frauds are traceable. But at the same time, it becomes possible to hide someone in a group from external companies or Governments, leading to exploitation of an employee or labor. Communication via electronic means leads to traceability and people and companies are susceptible to doing things to avoid such traceability for personal gains.Where are the engineers? They are sold to rich countries at 10,000 to 60,000 dollars per month (no, proper leaders have it in millions and billions) and paid 2,000 to 5,000 dollars per month. The rest goes in the pockets of companies, corrupt managers or sect or group or city/state/political group of people, corrupt officers, corrupt ministers (mostly reflected under wrong heads in company overheads - covered by your family CA). Since facility provided by any Indian Institutes for proper talent development was not at par with global levels in past times, many went abroad and re-did the degrees (my friends re-did MS and MBA) or work at lower levels as they lack needed support. Fake Medical, Criminal and Credit Histories are created and they return back, bringing back small amounts of savings from their paycheck and suffering overseas.Private restaurants serve exceptional food in many small cities to Government officials from departments that gives different sorts of permissions to operate in the cities. However, the same restaurants serve very low quality food items to private parties and general public. The same is true when ordering food via apps like swiggy, Uber eats, etc. - you get comparatively low quality food items. Is it corruption for getting food licenses and employing low cost workers without paying them for basic good life? Newspapers covered for very long period for raiding fake dairy products selling places. I wish we can also raise the standards to the best global Quality standards (raising bar for acceptance criteria) for all edible products. But most places don't even meet lowered local standards, thus harming many people from global businesses operating at such places.Eg of delivery company not ready to refund:Wrong salad was delivered. This is not first incident with you. Instead of X Rs item, you regularly deliver X/3 or X/4 Rs item. It is a regular affair to deliver lowest price and quality items.Description says: Veg Caesar SaladServed with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and croutons dressed in an emulsion of olive oil and lemon juice with Dijon mustard, garlic, parmesan cheese and black pepper.Priced: 179 Rs, discounted: 90 RsWhat you get: vegetables in mayonnaisePlain cut tomatoes in place of cherry tomatoes, croutons completely missing, lots of mayonnaise, small cucumber pieces, black pepper. Mustard and parmesan cheese completely missing. But big pieces of paneer.Price might be 50–60 RsPictures attached.I think I deserve my money back. Why the hell do you think that items of other continents can be replaced by Indian substitutes? If you write American or European or Italian and I order for that, I mean that. I don't want third grade replacement.Another one:I still cannot find the aromatic spices like saffron, cardamom and nutmeg in Manda served by you. Was it something fake or your menu description incorrect? See pic attached.Last but most important: Many sweet and namkeen as well as snacks shops are using wrong oils like cottonseed and palm, that is harmful to human health. This is the dirty way to make money. Many others use ghee and butter, that are saturated fats. Same is true for many other restaurants.Thankfully, because of staying alone or with Bachelor colleagues since 1997 till 2006, I learnt skills of cooking for survival (yes, knew few things that I loved since early college) and came handy many times when alone or with my daughter while my wife was on job or when staying with parents and can't eat food they prefer due to differences in nutritional requirements as well as taste preferences and liking of foods. And hence I have been ordering things online as per my requirements.Things mostly available in Mumbai or Bangalore or Delhi at Rs X are charged much higher in small cities like Indore. Especially, electricity bills, units usage details and tarrifs were noticeably very high compared to Thane. Same with cooking Gas and other items. I think it's due to presence of competitors in private sectors.Different local websites and communication technology : (Why don't we see many Chinese people on the internet? I see people from non-English speaking countries from Europe, Latin America, India, Africa etc. on Quora, but I haven't seen any Chinese people. Do the Chinese only use Chinese websites?)When we talk of Goal, any person in any country should have a common Goal (And that is improving HDI to the levels of “Lucy” and improving technology to an extent that it works and improves Human Lives on its own as shown in “Transcendence”). Both requires Global efforts and no Government can ever achieve this only for its own country - we are talking about creation of real God. Things are not independent and everyone need to join thru common thread. Humans have graduated to a level where we are talking about Universal Cooperation with each and every entity in Universe. So there is no point in having separate languages and separate websites for separate countries. Every person is trying to do same thing while sustaining, combining efforts, goals and visualization helps. Hope we already are there.Companies (in locked nations) are preventing the direct connection of local employee with the foreign managers, thus misusing the funds allocated by foreign company or employer for the development and compensation of the employee. And such local websites are made to increase the barrier between employees of same companies in different parts of the world. People are unable to place their aspirations to relocate to US, UK, etc or ask for better salaries as there is unnecessary barriers in between. Thus misutilization of funds happen due to lack of transparency.Forget about funds, would it not be good for entire world if Chinese were on common global internet platform, so we could have been alerted about Coronavirus (Wuhan Virus) on time ?As I mentioned cybercrime and cyberterrorism in my different answer, the following excellent movies of South India (dubbed in Hindi) shows various incidents I personally have experienced in past at different places on this planet. Not entire movies reflect reality, but certain key incidents have have happened in my real life.Kee, Player ek khiladi - - Aarambam, The return of Abhimanyu (Irumbu Thirai), Jaguar, Ism - - Tabahi zulm ki, Spyder, Samar -- Gabbar Sher, Nibunan (Intelligent), ---PSV Garuda Vega - - - not dubbed, ---Kathanam - - - on doubtful app, ---Pantham - - - cr, ---Nannaku Prematho - - - cr, Dhruvangal Pathinaaru, ---Kshanam - - not dubbed, Athiratha - Fake CertificateScam (Kanithan), Vardi ka dum -- Adanga Maru, Taskara - - Intelligent Arjun, Bollywood’s Hacked and Mickey VirusMany times many things that I read on internet surprises me and that's from different authentic sources of different countries. At one place I read that East India Company arrived India because businesspersons of Surat or Baroda invited them. I am still wondering if we read everything in history.Lav Khandelwal's answer to Are IIT and IIM degrees overrated? Why does India lack innovation and progress despite having so many of these engineers?Lav Khandelwal's answer to What is the history of cyber terrorism? What is being done to get rid of this?Lav Khandelwal's answer to How is the deposit of a flat decided while renting in mumbai?

BONNY LIGHT CRUDE OIL,CRUDE OIL, etc...Petroleum products businessis not for ALL.It is meant for BANK credible companies and individuals.Fraudulent acts are caused by "corner cutting, short cut operators, cheaper than world fixed price seekers"Every country oil producing company have policies which have to be strictly followed for the benefit and coexistence of the country and the institution. Adhere to their principles. Buyers negotiate for products from seller, not introducing Sale Formula of his benefit to seller, Buyer don't force seller to your style, you will end in the hands of those that will give you your style to your detrimentFor genuine buyers of BONNY LIGHT CRUDE OILs etc.. follow the strictly the procedure as explained below and get your products.Buyer read seller procedure with carefulness, issue icpo on product to buyer,Seller issue draft SPA to Buyer`, Buyer read and confirm or effect changes with seller pointBuyer & Seller signed and seal Sales & Purchase Agreement (SPA) after due acceptance.Both parties lodge the fully executed SPA with their respective banksaster, shipping agency, Inspection Company etc.Buyer's issuing bank (Top 50 World Prime Bank) shall request for the 2%pb upfront from seller bank.The 2% performance bonds is the security to both the buyer and seller for this transaction. This the bonds that is binding the seller and buyer, protect their interest whatsoever to a successful end of the transaction. Bonny light crude oil and every other petroleum products in Nigeria belongs to the Federal Repuublic of Nigeria . Their rules, principles and bylaws and other conditions are given by them through NNPC, the Public has to follow it if you realy want to buy the products. Crude oil or any petroleum products was not for poor due to its cost implication. To cut corner is to introduce fraudulent act. Until one submit SBLC, Vessels details , buyer ICPO and other relevant documents to NNPC before transaction process start. In Nigeria NNPC ,No one gets POP, bill of lading without submitting the above mention items , if any does is fake, wrhen it happens do not blame or condemned Nigeria , know that you are the one encouraging fraudulent acts. Even after submitting those documents they pass thro process coming out one after another . Have confidence with your bank the most heaviest gurantor. If your country policy do not favour you producing LC to your business, your bank should advise you on what to do if you are in good relationship with your bank, don't allow your country policy to be an excuse for corrupting another country system, please find your solution, I tell you many from that your country are doing the wright thing here and their products are perfectly deliver to them. Join others and do the wright thing and be happy . Let your bank protect your money and do what they know to do and do well.6.Seller's fiduciary bank authenticates and confirms the Pre advice via MT799 sent from Buyer's bank. Within 120 banking hours Seller's Bank issues Operative 2% Performance Bond Guarantee (including value: US$3M, duration as per Buyer accepted verbiage) via MT760 transmission to Buyer Bank.***All above , still bank to bank paper work, Seller on receiving the SBLC by his bank will use his money to meet up some transactions, NNPC also with confirmation from Seller bank issuing LC on cargo produce necessary paperwork for the loading of the vessel. All these step by step process is to avoid fraudulent acts that spoiled Nigeria, which you too say. Please let us reasong together and follow the protective Formula. You are not asked to give any money for any step by step procedures here. Why worry and complain still seeking to what still remains ghost to you.Vessel is loaded and Seller boards his independent inspection company to conduct Quantity & Quality inspection on the loaded cargo..10. Bank Guarantee issued to NNPC crystallises and Seller pays 100% cost of cargo loaded on his vessel to NNPC.The documents to be issued by NNPC to Seller on the loaded cargo shall include but not limited to the following ONLY: Note until full payment is made before NNPC release all these documents. Please my friend, this Nigeria govt way to protect his name and property and to save you, let us joyfully follow it and say bye bye to oil 419After payment these documents are released from NNPC:Clean Ocean Bill of Lading, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesSeller’s Commercial Invoice, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesCertificate of Origin issued by N.N.P.C, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesCertificate of Authenticity issued by NNPC, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesCargo Manifest, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesCertificate of Quality, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesCertificate of Quantity, One (1) Original and Three (3) CopiesMaster’s Receipt for Samples Master’s Receipt for DocumentsTanker Ullage ReportTanker Time SheetCharter Party AgreementCertificate of Ownership & Warranty of Title (N.N.P.C Certified Title on cargo)N.N.P.C Authority to Sell (A.T.S)Export Clearance Permit (Nigerian Ports Authority waiver, Custom Export Clearance Certificate etc.)Q&Q Inspection Report Performed at Loading Port by InterteOther relevant documents related to the cargo N.B: Seller shall furnishes Buyer with copies of the CPA, Q88, Q&Q report and release non-negotiable copies of some of the above full shipping Cargo documents for onward forwarding to Buyer’s BanksTanker Ullage ReportTanker Time SheetCharter Party AgreementCertificate of Ownership & Warranty of Title (N.N.P.C Certified Title on cargo)N.N.P.C Authority to Sell (A.T.S)Export Clearance Permit (Nigerian Ports Authority waiver, Custom Export Clearance Certificate etc.)Q&Q Inspection Report Performed at Loading Port by InterteOther relevant documents related to the ccaro*** Please this is very direct and simple, be on a close watch, those countries that issues documents to buyer before payment, you hear the level of fraudulent practices that will go on. As long as this business is concerned, many fools will lose their money., old documents will turn to new with fictitious seria numbers and date, just to collect your money and disappears to the sky. There is no documents a fraudstar can not produce, even your signature. It is only careful wright way that served.Different countries with different policy, this is Nigeria, this is it 's working system, please bear with us, continue to patronising us, we love you, it is for your good. Request for full proceduresRequest for full procedure. Thank you and God bless you, expecting your ICPC soon.Best Regards,Bishop Solomon StephenWhatsapp :[email protected]

Trump billed millions of dollars to the US Secret Service who rented an entire floor at Trump Tower in NY. That's not to mention his Detail at his resort in Florida.Also please explain these expenses the taxpayers that foot the bill to that went to the taxpayers:Since you mentioned the cost of detail for Dr Biden. I see that you never mentioned the millions of taxpayer money that went into Trumps pocket.SERIES:TRUMP, INC.How Taxpayers Covered a $1,000 Liquor Bill for Trump Staffers (and More) at Trump’s ClubA top-shelf, closed-door drinking session. $546-a-night hotel rooms. A special government credit card for Mar-a-Lago. Taxpayers foot the costs — and the president profits.Why is that?by Derek Kravitz for ProPublicaMay 1, 2019, 4 a.m. EDTPresident Donald Trump, center, with Chinese President Xi Jinping at dinner, during Jinping’s visit to Mar-a-Lago in April 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)Find “Trump, Inc.” wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s episode examines the intersection of money, presidential access and security, and the push and pull between government spending and private profits at Mar-a-Lago.In April 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, estate and club, for a two-day summit. While Xi and his delegation stayed at a nearby hotel, Trump and his advisers stayed at the peach-colored, waterfront resort.That evening, Trump and a dozen of his closest advisers hosted Xi and the Chinese delegation in an ornate dining room where they ate Dover sole and New York strip steak. Those sorts of lavish, formal gatherings are expected for a major bilateral summit.But then there are less formal events. At some point later that evening, a group repaired to Mar-a-Lago’s Library Bar, a wood-paneled study with a portrait of Trump in tennis whites (titled “The Visionary”) hanging nearby. The group asked the bartender to leave the room so it “could speak confidentially,” according to an email written by Mar-a-Lago’s catering director, Brooke Watson.MAR-A-LAGO'S CATERING DIRECTOR DESCRIBES WHITE HOUSE HAPPY HOUR FOR STATE DEPARTMENT (p. 33)View the entire document with DocumentCloudThe Secret Service guarded the door, according to the email. The bartender wasn’t allowed to return. And members of the group began pouring themselves drinks. No one paid.Six days later, on April 13, Mar-a-Lago created a bill for those drinks, tallying $838 worth of alcohol plus a 20% service charge. It covered 54 drinks (making for an average price of $18.62 each) of premium liquor: Chopin vodka, Patron and Don Julio Blanco tequilas and Woodford Reserve bourbon. Watson’s email did not specify how many people consumed the alcohol or who the participants were. (It stated that she was told the participants included then-strategist Steve Bannon and then-deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin. Bannon, who has said he stopped drinking years ago, said he didn’t drink at Mar-a-Lago and didn’t recall the episode. Hagin did not respond to requests for comment.)MAR-A-LAGO'S BILL FOR $1,005.60 FOR ALCOHOL CONSUMED BY WHITE HOUSE AIDES (p. 277)View the entire document with DocumentCloudThe bill was sent to the State Department, which objected to covering it. It was then forwarded to the White House, which paid the tab.The unusual cocktail hour underscores a unique push and pull in the current administration: Donald Trump’s White House pays a bill and Donald Trump’s club reaps the revenue. (It’s unclear if the White House asked any of those drinking to reimburse the government; the White House declined to comment.)The premium liquor costs are only the beginning of government spending at Mar-a-Lago that emerges in hundreds of pages of receipts and email correspondence between Trump Organization employees and staffers for the State Department, which oversees presidential diplomatic travel and works with the Secret Service and White House. The emails show that the president’s company refused to agree to what was essentially a bulk-purchase agreement with the federal government, and that it charged the maximum allowable federal rate for hotel rooms. The Trump Organization could be obstinate when it came to rates for, say, function rooms at Mar-a-Lago, a problem that was eased when the president signed a law lifting the maximum “micro-purchase” the government can make.Get Our Top InvestigationsSubscribe to the Big Story newsletter.Email addressThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.The emails have been released as part of an ongoing lawsuit between the nonprofit Property of the People, a Washington-based transparency group, and the federal government. Property of the People provided the emails and receipts to ProPublica and we, in turn, have added them to our tracker of government spending at Trump-owned properties for our interactive graphic Paying the President. (The State Department is expected to release an additional 1,800 pages of records as part of the lawsuit, which was filed under the Freedom of Information Act.)In response to questions from ProPublica, the State Department asked for and received the documents described in this article. State Department officials promised a detailed response, but then declined comment.The documents reveal the intersection between Trump’s conflicting interests. The emails show that “Mar-a-Lago wanted to have the government money without the government rules,” said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore who served on the congressionally chartered Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.Listen to the EpisodeA few months after Trump’s inauguration, the State Department proposed a contract that would pay $200,000 for all room costs for federal employees who stay at Mar-a-Lago over the first term of his presidency. But Mar-a-Lago rejected the government’s proposal. Instead, Trump’s resort bills the government the maximum permitted by federal rules: 300% of the government’s per diem rate, which works out to $546 per night.Mar-a-Lago rejected the proposed flat-fee arrangement, according to the emails, because of concerns the club’s lawyers had about the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR, which governs federal purchases and is overseen by contracting officers. FAR seeks to promote competition and maintain “the public’s trust.”The emails suggest the Trump Organization was worried that the lack of competitive bidding could run afoul of federal rules, among other concerns. A State Department staffer wrote in May 2017 that Mar-a-Lago’s attorneys brought up federal “small business set-aside” requirements, which set strict rules for sole-source government bids for small businesses. The State Department staffer wrote that Mar-a-Lago’s “concerns are based on their general lack of knowledge on the applicability of the FAR regulations.”A STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL CARD IS CREATED JUST FOR MAR-A-LAGO (p. 16)View the entire document with DocumentCloudMar-a-Lago and the Trump Organization did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comment.Since Mar-a-Lago wouldn’t agree to a bulk contract, the State Department had to go to Plan B. When it came to the meeting with China’s president, for example, the agency had to go into some contortions to make Mar-a-Lago’s $546 nightly room rate square with its rules on competitive bidding, given that there are other less expensive hotels nearby. At least 16 staffers stayed at the Hampton Inn in West Palm Beach; at least eight stayed at the nearby Hilton Garden Inn; and four others stayed at the Tideline Ocean Resort & Spa, where the press pool also stayed, according to a hotel manifest obtained through the FOIA lawsuit. The government-negotiated rates at those establishments ranged from $195 to $305 per night.THE STATE DEPARTMENT NEGOTIATED A MUCH CHEAPER RATE FOR A NEARBY HOTEL FOR THE APRIL 2017 TRIP (p. 128)View the entire document with DocumentCloud(At least 24 White House and federal staffers stayed at Mar-a-Lago during the Xi visit. They included then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; then-chief of staff Reince Priebus; then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; then-National Economic Council adviser Gary Cohn; and other advisers, past and present, such as Bannon, Hope Hicks, Stephen Miller and Sean Spicer.)A MANIFEST OF WHERE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES STAYED DURING THE APRIL 2017 MAR-A-LAGO TRIP (p. 126)View the entire document with DocumentCloudThe State Department also broke with protocol regarding taxpayer-funded travel and applied for a Citibank travel card just for Mar-a-Lago visits.Meanwhile, other problems emerged:Mar-a-Lago can’t process charges over $10,000, which led to problems when the club split bills and charged the government card for multiple transactions, emails show.MAR-A-LAGO CAN ONLY CHARGE UP TO $10,000 ON ITS SYSTEMS, SAYS STATE DEPARTMENT (p. 76)View the entire document with DocumentCloudMar-a-Lago refused government requests to waive the costs of its “function room” for press and other official meetings in April 2017, leading to a near-violation of a $3,500 government spending cap. Last year, Trump signed a law that lifted that cap, known as the “micro-purchase threshold,” from $3,500 to $10,000. The law does not appear to have been aimed at facilitating spending at Mar-a-Lago, but it allows the club to avoid additional government contracting rules when charging sums below $10,000.In one instance, after the government was charged more than $3,500 for conference space at Mar-a-Lago, it asked the Trump Organization for a 10% discount so that it wouldn’t violate the micro-purchase threshold. Mar-a-Lago relented, but only after months of haggling.THE STATE DEPARTMENT ASKS MAR-A-LAGO FOR A 10% DISCOUNT ON A MEETING ROOM, TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL RULES (p. 45)View the entire document with DocumentCloudIn the emails, the director of presidential travel support, Michael Dobbs, frequently described the creation of a charge card unique to Mar-a-Lago as a “headache.”STATE DEPARTMENT CONTRACTING OFFICER SAYS MAR-A-LAGO IS A 'HEADACHE' (p. 430)View the entire document with DocumentCloudAs Steve Schooner, a professor of government contracting law at George Washington University, put it, “The fact that we have a State Department contracting officer saying this is a headache is a reminder that, but for the relationship with President Trump, this would not be a contract the government would be having. That’s a problem.”Many of the expenses incurred by White House staff are arranged and paid for by the White House’s Office of Administration. These expenses are not required to be made public. The same goes for Secret Service spending to protect the president on such visits. (The Government Accountability Office released a report last month evaluating spending at Mar-a-Lago in February and March 2017 and found that a total of $60,000 was spent at the hotel during four trips; the figure ran to $13.6 million when costs for plane travel, secret service, security and other logistics were included.)The State Department payments, and its work on behalf of the White House and other traveling staff, are considered public records.Read MorePaying the PresidentTrack the money that goes into the president’s pocket from political campaigns and taxpayers.Between 2015 and June of 2018, at least $16.1 million has poured into Trump Organization-managed and branded hotels, golf courses and restaurants from his campaign, Republican organizations and government agencies. Because Trump’s business empire is overseen by a trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, he profits from these hotel stays, banquet hall rentals and meals.Federal spending rules don’t specifically address agency-level spending on alcohol that is directly invoiced to the government, as occurred with the $1,000 bar tab at Mar-a-Lago. The State Department and the White House have had exemptions included in their appropriations legislation to allow for alcohol purchases.Individual government employees are not permitted to use charge cards for “improper” purposes, such as alcohol, and federal per diem rules allow for charges for breakfast, lunch, dinner and related tips and taxes but specifically exclude alcoholic drinks.Six government contracting experts said Mar-a-Lago may be violating rules requiring competitive bids. They argue that Mar-a-Lago’s practice of invoicing meeting spaces, hotel stays and meals separately is a way to get around federal spending rules.“Mar-a-Lago didn’t want to compete, they wanted to sneak around the requirements, and charge much higher prices than the competition,” said Tiefer, who served as deputy general counsel with the House of Representatives for 11 years. “It’s not the first time in history that vendors have tried to get around the rules by charging individual components. This is familiar to every contracting officer. And it’s wrong. It’s not just a technicality. It’s not a game. The only safeguard the public has against the Trumps swallowing up all the government business is at least minimal competition.”Several experts contend the State Department is exploiting loopholes in government spending rules to facilitate official gatherings at Mar-a-Lago. “It’s one of the biggest fears coming true, that they are bending over backwards to help the Trump Organization,” said Scott Amey, general counsel of the Project On Government Oversight. “I’m frustrated the State Department would exploit the system to bill Uncle Sam and the taxpayers. To have the government bicker to get a 10% discount shows the Trump Organization isn’t putting the American public first. It’s a worst-case scenario when it comes to conflicts of interest, with the president and his children putting themselves and profits ahead of the public.”“Trump, Inc.” is exploring whether the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is still enforcing consumer financial laws and holding companies accountable. 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