Ted Cruz’s Father Worked With Supplements Maker Sued by Investors

New York Times ^ | 04/29/2016 | MEGAN TWOHEY

[MaxistheBest]

By 1990, the oil-services company Rafael Cruz had founded with his wife had collapsed. Their properties had been foreclosed on; they declared bankruptcy. “We assumed the downturn was temporary and struggled through the lean times, hoping for a change that never came,” he wrote in a memoir, “A Time for Action,” released in January of this year. “We lost everything, including our home.”

Mr. Cruz’s inspirational tale of fleeing Cuba and making it in America through faith and hard work has stirred crowds across the country as he campaigns on behalf of his son, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

But missing from the elder Cruz’s speeches and his otherwise detailed memoir is how he made ends meet after his financial undoing by working with Mannatech, a religiously inspired dietary supplement company whose history of questionable health claims has already popped up in the Republican presidential race.

Mr. Cruz became a top salesman for Mannatech, according to interviews and court records. For several years he also was a consultant to Mannatech’s founder, a role that landed him in a federal lawsuit brought by investors over the company’s sales practices. Allegations against Mr. Cruz were ultimately dropped from the suit.

According to the lawsuit, Mr. Cruz was the company’s “Mexican director” and was “trying to get individuals in Mexico or who traveled to Mexico to agree to accept large shipments of Mannatech products, which the recipients were then supposed to resell to customers in Mexico.”

At the time, Mannatech did not have permission to sell in Mexico.

“This was ‘a way around’ the rules against Mannatech selling directly in Mexico,” the lawsuit said.

[Brilliant]

Hillary arranged for the release of Puerto Rican terrorists in the effort to secure votes from Puerto Ricans.

[DennisR]

And Ted C is guilty of...what??? Did he choose his parents? No?

This is such a specious argument.

[Calvin Locke]

I forgot about that.

I wonder if they learned their lessons, or if the media is keeping mum about any nefarious activities the pardonees are, or have been, involved with?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Scholarships? Remember, he graduated with honors from both schools.

[Ouderkirk]

It is similar stuff to the latest snake oil. Texas Super food, and whatever else is out there.

THe “suppliments” market is largely unregulated, and the claims offered are unsubstantiated. These things offer very little in the way of actual benefit, but they offer little in the way of harm too. So there is no real need to regulate them, just a healthy dose of caveat emptor...let the buyer beware.

The problem is they tend to take advantage of those whose health is not good, and the intellectually deficient.

[AuntB]

“They declared bankruptcy, but this would have been just about the time Ted was entering Princeton, before going to Harvard after that.

Where did the money come from? How did his flighty, bankrupt parents afford Ivy League schools for him?

Has anyone seen this asked anywhere? This may be one of the reasons his records are sealed and yet another of many similarities between him and another non-citizen Manchurian Candidate, Obama. Both got full rides as some sort of foreign student? Or minority? And even full rides couldn’t pay for all the expenses one would incur in years at Ivy League schools. “

So ironic that Cruz supporters spent years asking these questions about Obama and being all upset that he ‘might’ not have been born in the USA. We KNOW Cruz is foreign born! I want to know what document Ted used to get into Harvard..it sure wasn’t a USA BC.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Apple didn’t fall far from the tree...

By intentionally suspending your beliefs, you can ignore the truth of how Senator Cruz created, supported, and advocated for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). An advocate cannot claim a position fundamentally disconnected from reality without intentionally desiring to do so.

This is an insightful key point into the deep dishonesty of Ted Cruz. Cruz says he has always been against Obamatrade yet he campaigned to enable it with TPA. Those actions are incompatible. Only a slick lawyer career politican would try that type of flim flam. TPA is where he lost most of his original support who have a conscious and a strong mind.