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moostraks
06-01-2016, 09:41 AM
Newly released documents in a lawsuit against Trump University cite several former employees of the school as saying the university didn't live up to what it promised students—calling it a “fraudulent scheme” and “a total lie.”

Among the most scathing assessments from former workers came from Ronald Schnackenberg, a witness for the plaintiffs who worked for the school as a Trump University sales manager in Manhattan for less than a year in 2007.

He described boiler room-like pressure tactics that “preyed upon the elderly and uneducated,” saying he believed that “Trump University was engaging in misleading, fraudulent and dishonest conduct.”

...Jason Nicholas, another witness for the plaintiffs who worked as a sales associate for five months in 2007, also said he was appalled by what went on at the university.

They were unqualified people posing as Donald Trump’s ’right-hand men,’” he wrote. “They were teaching methods that were unethical, and they had had little to no experience flipping properties or doing real estate deals. It was a facade, a total lie.”


In his sworn declaration, Mr. Schnackenberg he quit his job after refusing to pitch the seminars to a couple that he thought couldn’t afford them.

“They had no money to pay for the program but would have had to pay for the program using disability and taking out a loan based upon equity in his apartment.” He said another sales manager “talked them into buying a $35,000 seminar.”... http://www.wsj.com/articles/several-ex-employees-at-trump-university-call-it-a-scheme-1464787317

Ronin Truth
06-01-2016, 11:58 AM
Ex-disgruntled employees, with an axe to grind?

Ender
06-01-2016, 12:01 PM
Ex-disgruntled employees, with an axe to grind?

Silly ex-employees- what would they know.....


In his sworn declaration, Mr. Schnackenberg he quit his job after refusing to pitch the seminars to a couple that he thought couldn’t afford them.

“They had no money to pay for the program but would have had to pay for the program using disability and taking out a loan based upon equity in his apartment.” He said another sales manager “talked them into buying a $35,000 seminar.”...

CPUd
06-02-2016, 01:09 PM
New York AG: Trump U 'really a fraud from beginning to end'

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stepped up his attacks on Donald Trump’s Trump University business venture on Thursday, alleging the businessman and presumptive Republican nominee ran a thoroughly fraudulent enterprise.

“In New York, we have laws against business fraud, we have laws against consumer fraud,” Schneiderman told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America,” when asked which specific laws the Manhattan mogul broke in New York state, which filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2013. “We have a law against running an illegal unlicensed university. This never was a university. The fraud started with the name of the organization, and you can’t just go around saying this is the George Stephanopoulos Law Firm/Hospital/University without actually qualifying and registering, so it was really a fraud from beginning to end.”

The state of New York’s lawsuit was the first of several pending against Trump, who could be called to testify in separate cases after the November general election, even as president-elect or president. “He doesn't have immunity from civil fraud trials,” Schneiderman said.

When Stephanopoulos noted that Trump has claimed the operation was a philanthropic venture, Schneiderman remarked, “Well, if it was a philanthropic venture, he certainly made out well from the philanthropic venture. The initial estimates are that he personally pocketed $5 million from this.”

“Can you prove that?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“We’re going to get more information when we get to the damages phase of the trial, but we’re confident that he didn’t do this for free,” Schneiderman said.

Pressed on his reelection campaign sending out an email touting the case against Trump on Wednesday as well as his name on Hillary Clinton’s New York leadership team, Schneiderman flatly rejected the Trump claim that the charges are politically motivated.

“Not at all. The case was brought in August of 2013 after over a year of investigation and extensive negotiations with Trump. If I had come on your show and said in August 2013 he would be the Republican nominee for president, you probably never would have invited me again,” Schneiderman said. “This is not a political case. It’s a straight-up fraud case.”

As far as his conversation with Trump in 2011, in which the businessman said he would be a national candidate, Schneiderman commented, “Mr. Trump says a lot of things at a lot of points in time, but I assure you, in the summer of 2013, this was just a fraud case.”

“We were bringing cases against different for-profit colleges. This one stuck out like a sore thumb because it really was remarkable. The New York state Department of Education was chasing them around, saying you can’t hold yourself out as a university. They kept saying they would change their name or move out of New York,” Schneiderman said. “This was just a scam.”

In a later appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Schneiderman this time invoked program co-host Joe Scarborough to make the same point he made with Stephanopoulos.

"It's fraud. This is just straight up fraud. It's like selling people something you say is a Mercedes and it turns out to be a Volkswagen," he said. "And even if some people say, 'Well I actually kind of like the Volkswagen, it's still fraud, 'cause it's not a Mercedes. This is not a university. And in New York, we are a little sensitive—you can't just put up a sign saying Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough University, Scarborough Law Firm."

Schneiderman also said that while the state of New York had deposed Trump University President Michael Sexton, it would not need to do the same for Trump. "We can use the evidence that we've gathered," the attorney general said.

"It would be fun," panelist Mike Barnicle remarked, to laughter. "We're not here to have fun," Schneiderman said.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/eric-schneiderman-trump-university-fraud-223812

CPUd
06-04-2016, 09:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaLYHCC-HU