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How Bad Are the Trump University Allegations? Really Bad.
How many major-party Presidential front-runners have faced trial on “financial elder abuse” charges as they rolled toward the nomination?
Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford demonstrate, victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced.”
In May 2005 the New York Education Department notified Trump U that it was operating without a license and its use of the term “university” violated state law
Close to 6,000 students eventually bought into the three-day seminar. There students were urged to raise their credit card limits and to fill out financial statements, according to the plaintiffs. These steps would facilitate their later real-estate deals, they were allegedly told. But the plaintiffs contend that both steps were really taken in anticipation of the next sales pitch, which arrived on the second day of the seminar.
Seminar leaders pressed students to buy a “year-long mentorship” called the Trump Elite Gold program, which cost—brace yourself— $34,995.
One named class representative alleges she spent $60,000 in all, counting all the Trump products and services she purchased—even after ponying up for the Gold Elite program—and all the credit cards fees, expenses, and penalties she ended up paying.
Los Angeles Times reporter David Lazarus, who took a seminar and then wrote about it in December 2007. By phone, Trump personally advised him a few days later that his story was “inaccurate” and “libelous,” Lazarus wrote in a followup, but refused to say in what respect. He’d provide details “in court,” he told Lazarus, where he’d be suing the reporter’s “ass” off.
And when Trump’s Presidential campaign found out that a political action committee was running TV ads featuring former students of Trump university, the Trump Organization’s lawyer reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter threatening to sue the PAC (albeit the wrong PAC).
A Presidential nominee on trial for civil fraud could be yuuuuge come August.
Yikes!!!! This is the party that yelled out "let him die" at the GOP debates in Las Vegas just 4 years ago. Of course, to Republicans, so what. they don't care if old people are scammed. But to the rest of the nation, it's a big deal. And Trump, win or lose, will still have to go to court.
From the National Trial Lawyers:
Students Charge Donald Trump with Racketeering in “University” Scheme
Two class action racketeering lawsuits and a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General have been filed against Donald Trump for swindling student-victims out of upwards of $35,000 each through their enrollment in his fictitious institution, Trump University.
Mail and wire fraud are the racketeering activity referenced in the class action suit. The elements required to be proven by the plaintiff are as follows:
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Remember, the Hillary conspiracies are a thing of the past. After the FBI announces it has nothing, it's over. It will be all about Trump and nothing but Trump from here to the election. Veterans and mom and pop and grandma and grandpa screwed over by Donald Trump. And even though Republicans laugh at such things, the rest of America won't be laughing. And neither will the courts. I suspect it will be Trump victims that will get the last laugh.
How many major-party Presidential front-runners have faced trial on “financial elder abuse” charges as they rolled toward the nomination?
Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford demonstrate, victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced.”
In May 2005 the New York Education Department notified Trump U that it was operating without a license and its use of the term “university” violated state law
Close to 6,000 students eventually bought into the three-day seminar. There students were urged to raise their credit card limits and to fill out financial statements, according to the plaintiffs. These steps would facilitate their later real-estate deals, they were allegedly told. But the plaintiffs contend that both steps were really taken in anticipation of the next sales pitch, which arrived on the second day of the seminar.
Seminar leaders pressed students to buy a “year-long mentorship” called the Trump Elite Gold program, which cost—brace yourself— $34,995.
One named class representative alleges she spent $60,000 in all, counting all the Trump products and services she purchased—even after ponying up for the Gold Elite program—and all the credit cards fees, expenses, and penalties she ended up paying.
Los Angeles Times reporter David Lazarus, who took a seminar and then wrote about it in December 2007. By phone, Trump personally advised him a few days later that his story was “inaccurate” and “libelous,” Lazarus wrote in a followup, but refused to say in what respect. He’d provide details “in court,” he told Lazarus, where he’d be suing the reporter’s “ass” off.
And when Trump’s Presidential campaign found out that a political action committee was running TV ads featuring former students of Trump university, the Trump Organization’s lawyer reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter threatening to sue the PAC (albeit the wrong PAC).
A Presidential nominee on trial for civil fraud could be yuuuuge come August.
Yikes!!!! This is the party that yelled out "let him die" at the GOP debates in Las Vegas just 4 years ago. Of course, to Republicans, so what. they don't care if old people are scammed. But to the rest of the nation, it's a big deal. And Trump, win or lose, will still have to go to court.
From the National Trial Lawyers:
Students Charge Donald Trump with Racketeering in “University” Scheme
Two class action racketeering lawsuits and a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General have been filed against Donald Trump for swindling student-victims out of upwards of $35,000 each through their enrollment in his fictitious institution, Trump University.
Mail and wire fraud are the racketeering activity referenced in the class action suit. The elements required to be proven by the plaintiff are as follows:
- That Trump had a scheme to defraud.
- That Trump acted with the intent to defraud.
- That the statements or facts made or omitted were material misrepresentations capable of influencing the plaintiffs to part with their money or property.
- That Trump used mails or wires in furtherance of the scheme.
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Remember, the Hillary conspiracies are a thing of the past. After the FBI announces it has nothing, it's over. It will be all about Trump and nothing but Trump from here to the election. Veterans and mom and pop and grandma and grandpa screwed over by Donald Trump. And even though Republicans laugh at such things, the rest of America won't be laughing. And neither will the courts. I suspect it will be Trump victims that will get the last laugh.
