Posted on 02/27/2016 3:26:09 AM PST by true believer forever
In the case of Trump University, the situation is even more disturbing. While Schneiderman’s investigation into Trump University first arose out of a larger inquiry into for-profit schools that accepted federal funding, his office quickly learned that neither Trump University nor its students had ever received any form of federal funding, subsidies or other government aid and offered all of its students a 3 day money back guarantee if they were not completely satisfied. Despite learning these facts, for the last two years, Schneiderman’s office has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars conducting a no holds barred, scorched earth investigation, assigning as many as ten of his staff members to interview former Trump University employees and review literally hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Making matters worse, Schneiderman chose to devote such valuable taxpayer dollars to looking into Trump University even though there was already a class action lawsuit pending in California brought by the firm of disgraced former lawyers and convicted felons Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss.
And what did Schneiderman’s office find after wasting so much of the taxpayers’ hard earned money? Exactly what Trump University told the Attorney General on day one – that as much as 98% of those students who participated in Trump University programs were not only satisfied with their Trump University experience, but would recommend the program to a friend.
(Excerpt) Read more at 98percentapproval.com ...
Oh I’ll be happy no matter. In Texas we can always go back to being the Republic of Texas, if it gets too shitey.
Secondly, the majority of voters have no yet done anything.
I have found one of the truisms of life is to not count one’s chickens before the eggs have hatched. Something most Trumpbots forgot along with forgetting common sense conservatism, civility, honor and the fact that character really does matter.
More truth for your delectation. May I assume you (LL) are a Cruz fanboi?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3402498/posts?page=105#105
Trump real estate seminars were offered as Trump University between 2004 and 2009. In 2010 they were offered as Trump Entrepreneur Institute. The business stopped in June of 2010. The effort had 5,000 students over 7 calendar years. New York court papers say the effort grossed $40 million over the seven years.
I’m not going to deal with the deep details of the cases in California - they are sour grapes or buyers remorse cases for money damages. When they call them Class Actions lets be sure everyone knows what that means. Attorneys who specialize in class actions create a group of defendants whose damages are too small to be worth it, try to enlist a group of defendants, none of whom manage the litigation, to try and create a big legal bill for profit by addressing the supposed harms suffered by the group. Two such efforts were started in California. There can not be that many of the 5,000 from California when you take out all the NY FL TX IL MA seminar takers.
Personal note: one time a San Diego atty with no nexus to me whatsoever did this to me. He filed one case, assumed there must be other parties similarly situated and asked a judge to create the opportunity for him to go establish there were others and have me pay for it. We stopped that but that’s how it works.
The Trump seminars had questionaires filled out by the attendees presumably so they could improve the program. Good thing they did as now those are evidence of what they did and what the attendees thought of it. Go here:
http://www.98percentapproval.com/
There you can read the questionnaire results. 4900 of the folks absolutely agreed they got what they expected. So we have 100 people, that needed to be herded up by class action lawyers. Two percent of $40mm is $800k. Decremented by those of the 100 people that are from California. Thats what we are talking about. Surely Trump will spend far in excess of that just to clear his name in California. If you get a letter in the mail form a Class Action lawyer saying you should join our class as we try to extract money damages from Donald J. Trump without having to do anything or spend a cent, many would say I’m in. On to New York.
Our protagonist there is the loathesome atty. gen. Eric Schneiderman - he’s the dolt thats trying to wreck Fan Duel and Draft Kings. Go here to find out about this modern Elliott Spitzer http://observer.com/2014/02/the-politics-and-power-of-a-g-schneiderman/ and his publicity hound cases.
Newly elected Shneiderman brought an action against Trump Entrepreneur in May of 2011, a year after it closed only four months after he was elected.
read about him shaking down the Trumps nad Trump employees for political contributions behind the scenes of his case here http://observer.com/2014/10/time-runs-out-on-attorney-generals-fraud-suit/
As the case is poised today, the only New York matters not already dismissed by the court is the use of the name Trump University. There are 121 seminar takers left that paid an aggregate $105,000 - $867.77 each - not all form New York. The harm to these people ? That they were mislead into believing that Trump University, a three day real estate seminar might have been an actual University. No one could sit on 60 Minutes and claim they thought they wee attending Harvard or Columbia. It’s ridiculous. Which leaves the California cases.
On to the politics of the matter: Many of these seminar attendees were smart enough to understand the opportunity that distressed real estate presented @ 2007 and afterwards. The overwhelming majority did three days and stopped. Those that went deeper into the training paid for it of their own volition. A few, many years later at the behest of a publicity hound Atty. Gen. that said over and over again it is a ‘weak case’ or upon receiving a letter in the mail from a class action lawyer are now crying foul. The truth of the matter is they paid for the deeper seminars and ended up for whatever reason not being able to utilize the knowledge and at least six years later (if not much longer) are crying foul. If they took a free seminar, then a paid one, then another paid one and then another at what point do they move from guileless consumers to prospective wannabe business people that paid for a service and didn’t capitalize on it?
CW and NR and the Cruznadians and the Rubiots and the WSJ tell us what great Conservatives and Free Market people they are. Now they are propagating this smear. If Trump had done something wrong, had something to hide, wouldn’t he have settled this for far less than the legal bills to fight it out? Keep in mind Trump bought Doral out of the bankruptcy court for $150mm. The DC post office renovations alone are $200mm. Wouldn’t great conservatives applaud an American that fought the NY atty gen and the class action lawyers? Wouldn’t real free market people put an ear to the ground and learn how hard business is now in the country?
No but you may assume you are an idiot for making an assumption about my support for any candidate when I have made my position extremely clear.
So I’ll speak slowly for you. I will vote for Cruz and I will support the nominee. But I will not bust an artery cheerleading for any mere human being.
I read it. I had been waiting for something about this. As I had suspected, it’s a total fraud perpetrated against Trump.
A suit filed by sleaziest scumbag lawyers in the country, who just got out of prison and can no longer even practice law. A 98% approval by its students.
An investigation by a corrupt Dem NY AG. Where do we keep finding these guys for NY AG? I know they are all Dems, but they keep dragging them out of a cesspool and making them NY AGs.
Trapped in NY. Trapped in ITHACA, NY, even worse.
We haven’t met. I would remember. You were supposed to be at the convention and NYC GOP MAN and I were disappointed. Let’s meet if you are ever in NYC? Thanks for all your good work.
What am I supposed to read?
No relation. That was her married name. She was born in New York in 1862 and wrote novels of manners. Juseph Wharton, founder of Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania (located in Philadelphia), was an industrialist, born in Philadelphia in 1826, and made a donation to establish the school in 1881 in recognition that business was not taught as a discipline up until that time. He saw it as a way to help the burgeoning Industrial Revolution.
For the benefit of others who may be reading, University of Pennsylvania was founded in Philadelphia in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin -- before the U.S. Revolution, and is one of the Ivy League. It is nicknamed UPenn or simply "Penn."
Many confuse UPenn with Penn State, but the two universites are not connected. Penn State was founded more than 100 years later (1855) and is smack in the middle of the very wide state of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia being in the farthest eastern part of the state).
Your reserving the right to call someone "idiot" violates the posting rules set forth here since 1998, newbie.
It didn't even understand your post. The haters are seething with envy and resentment. They are like the Occupy movement, living in tents and pooping on all the threads.
You are aware that Trump toyed with the idea of running in 2009, right? And was very vocal about the 2012 elections?
I knew there was no connection. Just pretending to be woo-woo.
I am not interested enough, nor do I have enough time, to search your comments and find out your position about the various candidates.
Your snark and nastiness don’t bother me, try on someone else.
Ta ta.
Not trying to win over trump supporters that are diehard Trumpbots. There is not talking any sense with that type who blindly refuse to see or hear even a peep of truth, logic or conservative principles.
From reading your posts, you are a diehard blinded Trumpbot.
My only resentment will be your dumbasses dragging the rest of America over the Pied Piper’s cliff with you.
Yep it worked like magic with Trumpbots, didn’t it.
PT Barnum would be proud of the Donald.
That's a fair point.
Would you agree that you accuse anyone who disagrees with you and supports Trump as having an IQ below 100 ?
From what I’ve seen, a lot of Trump supporters looked into Cruz or even supported him for a while. And then saw the real Cruz history and patterns. And also Trump supporters almost all, that I’ve seen, looked very carefully into Trump’s positions, listened to many rallies and interviews, and read at least one or more of his books. The site “On the Issues” has quotes and sources for all the candidates (and other politicians) on many issues over time, and that is good resource.
Cruz supporters, otoh, are like a rabid fanboi/fangrrrl club and seem to know absolutely nothing about the real Trump, and like to believe only hit pieces and GOPe/Dem/MSM propaganda. They’re sort of like cult followers.
It’s really clear.
I am not a "diehard blinded Trumpbot", nor am I a "dumbass." I am someone with 50 years' experience in entrepreneurial and corporate business, with an Ivy graduate degree, who has followed Trump's career for 40 years and who has read extensively not only about him, but about all the R candidates for this presidential election.
I have endeavored to explain on the Forum some of the not-so-easy-to-understand aspects of business and finance, or the personality traits of a leader, to people here who post wild distortions without any apparent knowledge or background on those points.
That said, I do not agree with everything about Trump's positions; but I agree with the main body of what Trump is trying to accomplish and the areas he identifies as most important:
repair the economy,Perhaps you think this platform is somehow not conservative. I'd like to know how that can possibly be, but judging by your past posts, please don't even try to tell me.
seal the borders,
protect Christian culture
put a damper on political correctness
restore our military strength and resolve against our enemies
restrain refugee and illegal immigration
end CommonCore and Obamacare
reduce the massive debt
cut back overregulation, and
restore a vital private sector and small business sector.
I have posted on many occasions that I will vote for any of the Republicans who win this year's presidential nomination.
Yet you assume that the foregoing makes me a "blinded" "dumbass."
Girl, I pity you.
PS - Cruz supporters refuse to see the slightest flaws in him, although there are many egregious flaws up to the level of huge red flashing DANGERS AHEAD! signs.
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