New Jersey officials are “considering” how former President Donald Trump’s recent conviction may affect the liquor licenses of several golf clubs.
Officials with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office’s Bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control are “reviewing the impact of President Trump’s conviction” on the liquor licenses of Trump National Golf Club in Colts Neck, Lamington Farm Club and Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia in Pine Hill, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office said. Confirmed To hill.
The spokesman added that both of the former president’s golf clubs’ liquor licenses remain valid.
New Jersey Law:
No license of any kind will be issued to any person under the age of 18 or to any person convicted of a crime of moral turpitude. A beneficiary of a trust who is not disqualified from holding the right to a license may qualify regardless of age, so long as the trustee of the trust qualifies him/her. The trustee shall preserve the beneficiary’s rights in the trust until the beneficiary has reached at least the age of majority.
Each applicant shall provide the director with written consent to the conduct of a background check of the applicant’s name, address, fingerprints, and criminal history. The director shall be authorized to receive criminal history record information from the state police department’s state background check bureau and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in accordance with applicable state and federal laws, rules, and regulations. The applicant shall bear the costs of the criminal history background check, including all costs of administering and processing the check. The state police department shall promptly notify the director if any current licensee or prospective applicant who was subject to a criminal history record background check pursuant to this article is arrested for a crime or unlawful activity in this state after the date the background check was conducted.
A “crime of moral turpitude” is “a crime punishable by up to one year in prison that involves vile, base or depraved conduct contrary to the accepted customary rules of rights and obligations between man and man in the private and social obligations he owes to his fellow man and to society at large,” according to the website of New Jersey law firm Proetta, Oliver & Fay. Specialize In liquor law.
New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control Handbook Note “In some cases, it may be unclear whether the conviction contains an immoral element.”
In such circumstances, the convicted person may “petition the department to make a eligibility determination as to whether the crime contains a moral turpitude element.”
Trump was convicted in late May of 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records related to payments made to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
