Central NY hotel management sent long-term residents scrambling to make rooms for migrant contracts

Salina, NY — Mike Brown and Nikki Henry were amazed May 18 by a knock on their door at the Candlewood Suites hotel.

It was management with a message: The couple had a little over a week to clear out of the hotel room they’d been living in for months while they worked overnights at Amazon.

The company that owns the hotel made a deal to house migrants from New York City, according to lawsuits. Residents said the hotel management was clearing them out to make rooms for new ones.

Hotel management went through most of the building that day, guests said, knocking on doors of people who had called the home for months, and even years. Residents interviewed by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard said they were paying rates that ranged from $700 a month to $2,100 a month to stay in one- and two-room suites with kitchenettes.

Some have

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SC says NCLAT has the right to reject Appu Hotels’ resolution plan

The Supreme Court has ruled an appellate bankruptcy tribunal was right in rejecting Appu Hotels’ resolution plan even as 87.3% of verified financial creditors approved the offer given by MK Rajagopal, the founder of MGM Healthcare.

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) rejected Rajagopal’s Rs 423-crore plan on the grounds that it was revised after a majority of lenders voted on it, but the revised plan was not put before lenders for a vote. Secondly, the resolution of the applicant was ineligible under Section 29 (A) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code — a rule which bars defaulters from acquiring companies.

The division bench observed that while respecting the commercial wisdom of the Committee of Creditors, the NCLAT could not have approved the plan for these two major reasons.

After NCLAT rejected Rajagopal’s plan, the lenders approved a Rs 592-crore offer from the promoter, Periasamy Palani Gounder, in November

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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #19 Why Aren’t You in Italy? · Passion For Italy Travel

Welcome to your adventure in Italy that you are going to do in the future maybe next year or the year after. I have been reading a lot lately about how to make the most of life and how to create it and make it happen.

Mid life we ​​all need to stop and take a pause. The only good thing to come out of Covid was that the world paused. It gave us a lot of time to breathe and think and assess our lives and relationships. I’m sure a lot of people thought about how one wishes to spend the rest of your life.

What is stopping you from traveling other than the price? Is it afraid of flying? Or is it just fear in general – You don’t know where to go? Do you have problems sleeping in strange beds? Maybe your partner doesn’t want to travel

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How Qatar and Morocco paid for EU chiefs’ hotels – POLITICO

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It was all within the rules.

That’s the universal response of the clutch of European commissioners who have accepted free hotel accommodation from non-EU governments, including Qatar, Morocco, Israel and Jordan.

A POLITICO investigation analyzed expense disclosures from EU commissioners over the past three years and found that seven leading figures in Brussels accepted free lodging from foreign governments.

At a time when the European institutions are already facing intense scrutiny over foreign influence following the Qatargate corruption scandal, the disclosures will raise new questions about ethics in the highest echelons of the EU.

The individuals who took up the free hotel accommodation on work trips included top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi and Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans.

In statements explaining their actions, the commissioners’ offices all said they’d taken up the

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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #20 A Conversation About Rome · Passion For Italy Travel

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In this episode of the Passion for Italy Travel Podcast, Joe Mulinaro joins the PFIT team to discuss a recent trip to Rome. Joe invited a guest, his wife Lori, to discuss any positives and negatives she had with this trip.

Joe Mulinaro joins the Passion for Italy Travel crew. He will be having a number of guests join him to discuss their trip to Italy.
In this episode of the Podcast, Joe invites his wife, Lori, to discuss her recent trip to Italy where they visited Rome, Florence, Positano, and Capri.
In this first show, they discuss the Rome portion of the vacation. They start with their planning and flight.
The episode continues with five days of filling their agenda with all the major points of Rome.
Monti District, Santa Maria Maggiore, Spanish Steps, Piazza Republica, Altar of

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Hilton Hotel manager arrested for waking up guest by sucking on his toes

A Hilton Hotel manager was arrested and charged Friday for entering a guest’s room and sucking on the customer’s toes.

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David Neal, 52, was charged with aggravated burglary and assault for entering a male guest’s room and sucking on his toes Thursday, March 30.

Nashville Police were dispatched shortly after 5 am to 121 4th Avenue South, where a Hilton Hotel resides, a spokesperson for the city’s police department stated.

While investigating a complaint, officers discovered that Neal, working as a night manager at the time, made a key card and entered the guest’s room.

The guest then woke up to find Neal sucking on his toes, which he was immediately confronted with.

The guest recognized Neal because the day before, he came into the room with another employee to fix an issue with the television, the spokesperson informed.

Neal

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A hotel guest alleges he woke up to find the night manager licking his toes

A Nashville hotel guest was sleeping soundly when at 5 am, he woke up to find a man licking his toes. Now, the hotel’s night manager has been arrested, is being accused of sexual assault and is being sued, along with the hotel.

The hotel guest, Peter Brennan, says when he woke up to the disturbing scene he “immediately started yelling,” at the man in his room, who fled.

The suspect has been identified as David Neal, the night manager at the Hilton Downtown Nashville, according to Rocky McElhaney Law Firm, which is representing Brennan.

Brennan told hotel security about the alleged sexual assault but they “did not appear to take his complaint seriously,” the law firm said in a news release. Brennan then called the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, who began investigating the March 30 incident.

Last week, Neal was arrested and charged with burglary in connection to the

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UK rescue flights for tourists fleeing ‘out of control’ wildfires on Rhodes and Corfu

UK airlines are scrambling evacuation flights to the wildfire-ravaged islands of Rhodes and Corfu where up to 10,000 British tourists are stranded in a “living nightmare” as a fresh red alert is issued for Crete.

The two biggest holiday firms Tui and Jet2 have axed all flights to the island in the coming days after holidaymakers were forced to flee their hotels having to sleep on floors in schools, airports and sports centers – but other firms, including Ryanair, Thomas Cook and easyJet continue to fly tourists who want to travel to Rhodes.

The popular destination of Crete was also placed under an “extreme” fire warning on Monday, with Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis telling parliament it must “be on constant alert” in the weeks ahead. He declared his country to be “at war” with the blazes and warned of three more “difficult days” before the extreme heat eases.

An aerial view shows smoke billowing behind Kiotari village, on the island of Rhodes (AFP/Getty)

An aerial

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Toronto to open hotel rooms for 150 asylum seekers amid shelter shortages

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow delivered her first media availability after being sworn in at Toronto City Hall, on July 12. Toronto City Council announced more funding to shelter asylum seekers on July 19.Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press

Toronto is opening up hotel rooms for 150 asylum seekers after the city received a pledge for $97-million from the federal government toward shelter spaces, but Mayor Olivia Chow said a long-term solution is needed to respond to the “crisis.”

City council unanimously approved a plan Wednesday, brought forward by Ms. Chow, to address the growing need for shelter from refugee claimants arriving in Toronto. The measures approved by the council include spending $6.67-million this year on expanding a rent supplement program for people currently experiencing homelessness that will be matched by the provincial government.

In a joint statement Wednesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Ms. Chow asked

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Southern California hotel union vows more walkouts ahead

Tensions rose Tuesday between the Southern California hotel operators and their striking workers during the first bargaining session since intermittent walkouts beginning July 1. Hotel representatives accused the union of failing to bargain in good faith, and Unite Here Local 11 vowed more strikes at hotels across Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Meanwhile, the labor unrest has cost targeted hotels for some major businesses.

A hotel industry group introduced a new contract proposal during negotiations at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in downtown Los Angeles, the only hotel that has reached a deal so far and avoided strikes among the more than 60 targeted hotel sites within the Unite Here Local 11 membership area in Southern California.

Keith Grossman, an attorney representing a coalition of 44 Southern California hotels, said that the proposal represented an improved wage offer, but it was rejected by the union.

“The union made no

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