TRUMP HEADLINES
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Trump Pays $25,000,000 to Stay Out of Court
The Trump University fraud case settlement submitted to a federal court in San Diego indicates that Trump is personally guaranteeing that the $25 million will be handed over to plaintiffs' lawyers by Jan. 18, 2017, two days before he is scheduled to be sworn in as president.
The deal scuttled the bizarre possibility of Trump facing a civil class-action fraud trial as he waited to assume the nation's highest office.
The three lawsuits alleged that the real estate training program was deceptively marketed, including by asserting that instructors were hand-picked by Trump when he did not actually know them.
A total of 13 people claiming to be class members were excluded from the cases at their request and could still seek to bring separate suits on their own, if their cases can meet hurdles needed to pursue them in court.
Trump University Class Action Settlement
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Trump Donated Cash to Florida AG Who Decided Not to Join Trump Univ. Lawsuit
Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates
The new disclosure from Attorney General Pam Bondi's spokesman to The Associated Press provides additional details around the unusual circumstances of Trump's $25,000 donation to Bondi.
The money came from a Trump family foundation in apparent violation of rules surrounding political activities by charities. A political group backing Bondi's re-election, called And Justice for All, reported receiving the check Sept. 17, 2013 — four days after Bondi's office publicly announced she was considering joining a New York state probe of Trump University's activities, according to a 2013 report in the Orlando Sentinel.
After the check came in, Bondi's office nixed suing Trump, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
and High-Pressure Sales Tactics
Sales manager Ronald Schnackenberg testified that Trump University "was a fraudulent scheme" that pressured financially-strapped people to sign up for $35,000 real estate seminars. Students were told they would learn how to buy real estate cheaply in a declining market and resell properties quickly for big profits.
He said the company "preyed upon the elderly and the uneducated to separate them from their money."
Former employees of the company, founded by Trump in 2005 and closed in 2010, said they were told to pressure potential customers into opening charge accounts to pay for the classes. One major selling point was that Trump hand-picked the instructors and would be actively involved in their education. Neither was true. Employees said his involvement was limited to approving ads and marketing materials to promote Trump University.
The internal documents were ordered released by the judge overseeing the class action lawsuit filed by Trump University students in California. Trump is scheduled to testify in that suit, slated to start shortly after the election.
New York Times
Sunday, May 15, 2016
How Donald Trump Treats Workers
Trump Tower Built with the Sweat of Undocumented Foreign Workers
Donald Trump repeatedly says he will bring jobs back to America. He failed to make an effort to do that when he was building Trump Tower in 1980.
200 demolition workers—nicknamed the Polish Brigade—worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week with no overtime to knock down the old Bonwit Teller building and make room for Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
According to testimony in a protracted civil suit in federal court, the Polish laborers were paid $5 an hour or less, when they were paid at all. Some went unpaid after the contractor had financial troubles. A few never received even the paltry sum that was owed them for their dirty and hazardous efforts preceding the construction of Trump’s monument to his own wealth.
“They were undocumented and worked ‘off the books,’” Manhattan federal Judge Charles Stewart said of the workers after they became the subject of a 1983 lawsuit. “No records were kept, no Social Security or other taxes were withheld.”
Daily Beast article on Trump Tower
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