{"id":5637,"date":"2011-01-13T08:43:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2011-01-13T08:43:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T13:43:42","slug":"lyford-cay-resident-back-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/01\/lyford-cay-resident-back-in-the-spotlight","title":{"rendered":"Lyford Cay Resident Back in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, the Leader of Government Business in  the Bahamas Senate, Dion Foulkes exposed the activities of a wealthy resident of Lyford Cay, who allegedly did not have the necessary statutory approval to construct a  multimillion dollar boat basin on his property. The multi-million dollar home in Lyford Cay is believed to be owned by a\u00a0 Panamanian shell company operated by the controversial resident.<\/p>\n<p>A local blog accuses the resident of obtaining a permit after the construction work had been done, calling it a &#8220;criminal act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The gentleman referred to in the blog has now put his home in Lyford Cay up for sale, presumably to escape any legal troubles he may encounter in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator, a prominent hedge fund manager, has had run-ins with his neighbor in Lyford Cay and was emboiled in a well publicized scandal involving the death of his property manager, who was believed to be involved in the distribution of narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>The wealthy resident can not be named, as he has a gaggle of lawyers who threaten to sue anybody who even mentions his name on a website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A billionaire resident of the plush community of Lyford Cay, who has had a lot of controversy swirling around him recently, has now been accused of criminal activities by a local blogger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,35],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-lyford-cay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}