‘Financial Elder Abuse’ Charges Against Trump. Business As Usual in DC.
Richard Eskow
2016-11-27 00:00:00
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Last week’s Trump University settlement is a case in point. The particulars of the case are mind-boggling: Trump and his co-defendants settled the fraud charges against them for a reported $25 million. (The settlement still needs to be approved by Judge Gonzalo Curiel.)

Most people know the general nature of the charges. Trump and his associates allegedly defrauded “students” with false claims about the venture and their future earning possibilities. Victims were subjected to high-pressure sales tactics that often led them to spend $35,000 on a worthless series of lectures from “instructors” Trump claimed to have personally selected but could not identify.

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