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Upscale CA Restaurant Where Gov. Newsom Violated Lockdown Rules Got $2.4 Million in PPP Loans
Breitbart ^ | 12/17/2020 | Penny Starr

Posted on 12/17/2020 9:53:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

French Laundry, an upscale restaurant in Napa, California, where Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught violating his own coronavirus lockdown rules, got more than $2.4 million in loans from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.

The loans were reportedly used to retain the restaurant’s 160 employees

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; loans; newsom; ppp
2.4 million for Newsom to break the rules? What a joke.
1 posted on 12/17/2020 9:53:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OK I’ll chime in on this one

The French laundry is either the number one or number two restaurant in the entire United States of America like $500 a person up there in Napa and has been for many many decades

Why on G-da green earth would that restaurant need government subsidies?

The SWAMP is so wide and so deep and so endemic trying to even nip at the edges of it is a Herculean task


2 posted on 12/17/2020 9:56:02 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At $22,000 a meal, that’s only 1000 tables. Even if they only had 1 table seating a day, that’s just going to cover them for 14 weeks.


3 posted on 12/17/2020 10:00:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Absolutely disgusting. How many small businesses could have kept their people going with that money? The owners should be shamed out of the country.


4 posted on 12/17/2020 10:13:13 AM PST by McGavin999 (Justice delayed is justice denied.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they have to pay back the 2.4 million?
Struggling mom & pop restaurants are being forced to go out of business, but the rich and politicaly connected establishments get even richer. Why???


5 posted on 12/17/2020 10:18:53 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The French Laundry is the restaurant that a few years ago was burglarized and cleaned out of thousands of dollars of expensive wines. No doubt an inside job but never heard any sort of follow-up.


6 posted on 12/17/2020 10:20:47 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Answered my own question: Two Men Indicted in French Laundry Wine Theft
7 posted on 12/17/2020 12:24:59 PM PST by SpaceBar
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