I’ve known this for years. One of my clients when I owned my mortgage business was the #2 guy at Ritz Carleton. He used to talk about the Patels.
Biggest Indian chain migration racket in history.
I moved to California in 1983, and worked with an engineer named Patel. I was told by another guy I worked with, who happened to be an Indian from Trinidad, although he did not have an Indian name, that the Patels owned all the hotels.
This is the first I’ve heard that they guy who started it all was from Trinidad, not India.