Posted on 08/31/2015 7:30:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Do you remember Trump University? Probably not – it didn’t really catch on. And one big reason it didn’t catch on is because it was a total scam, say a slew of former students in complaints that were filed to the Federal Trade Commission and were recently unearthed by a Freedom of Information Act request from Gizmodo, writes Ethan Wolff-Mann for TIME.
It is not only former students who have called into question the legitimacy of Trump University, which was founded in 2005. The New York Department of Education sent Trump a letter in 2010, accusing the operation of misleading students and misuse of the word ‘university’. Soon thereafter, the operation was renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
In 2013, the New York Attorney General’s office filed a US$40 million lawsuit against the former reality star and current Republican presidential candidate for failing to impart the promised real estate education to 5,000 students and subjecting prospective students to high-pressure sales tactics.
(Excerpt) Read more at universityworldnews.com ...
CLINTONS--LYING- IN-WAIT TO CASH IN Do-Gooder presidential candidate Hillary unloaded a $350 billion higher ed proposal on the backs of struggling taxpayers that she says would help pay for college and reduce student loan interest rates.
Now, taxpayers, let us count the ways the avaricious Clintons will cash in on Hillary's $350 billion plan.
EXHIBIT ONE--BILL CLINTON BAGGED $16 MILLION FROM EDUCATION COMPANY THAT RECEIVED MILLIONS FROM HILLARY’S STATE DEPT.
Breibart ^ | August 5, 2015 | Peter Schweitzer / FR Posted by lbryce
Newly released financial disclosures reveal Bill Clinton received $16.46 million in payments from a George Soros-backed for- profit education company, as Hillary Clinton’s State Department funneled tens of millions of dollars to a group run by the company’s chairman.
With $4 billion in annual revenue, Laureate Education is America’s largest for-profit college company. From 2010 until just days before the 2015 release of the blockbuster expose, Clinton Cash, Bill Clinton served as Laureate’s “honorary chancellor.” Bill abruptly resigned when the Clinton-Laureate connection was exposed in the book "Clinton Cash."
Laureate’s chairman and longtime Clinton crony, Douglas Becker, is also the chairman of a nonprofit sister organization...the International Youth Foundation (IYF) w/ offices close by Laureate’s in "peaceful, thriving" Baltimore.
NOTE WELL Shortly after Laureate made Bill Clinton its honorary chancellor in April 2010, Hillary Clinton made Laureate part of her State Department Global Partnership. IYF received USAID funds before Hillary’s tenure at the State Dept. But the tax dollar grants the education group received exploded after Bill Clinton was put on the Laureate payroll. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
EXHIBIT TWO--One Bloomberg report showed how tax dollars moved from the State Department to an education entity and back into the Clintons' pockets.
<><> in 2009, the year before Bill Clinton joined Laureate, the nonprofit received 11 grants worth $9 million from the State Department or the affiliated USAID.
<><> In 2010, the group received 14 grants worth $15.1 million.
<><> In 2011, 13 grants added up to $14.6 million.
<><> The following year, those numbers jumped: IYF received 21 grants worth $25.5 million, including a direct grant from the State Department.
Laureate has declined to say how much it has paid ex-president Clinton. Hillary Clinton’s financial disclosure forms in 2012 revealed only that her husband received nonemployee compensation of more than $1,000 from the company that year. The Clinton Foundation’s donor disclosures showed that Laureate cumulatively gave between $1 million and $5 million through 2014.
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In his blockbuster expose, Peter Schweizer noted that during the period his wife was secretary of state from 2009-2013, Bill Clinton spoke at Laureate campuses in Honduras, Mexico City, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, and the United States....netting him millions.
Schweizer famously dubbed the Clinton patented MO of do-good government service intertwined w/ private remuneration the “Clinton blur.”
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REFERENCE International Youth Foundation (IYF)
32 South Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) prepares young people to be healthy, productive, and engaged citizens. We are passionate in our belief that educated, employed, and engaged young people possess the power to solve the world’s toughest problems. Every young person, therefore deserves the opportunity to realize his or her full potential. Our programs are catalysts for change that help youth learn, work, and lead.
More at http://www.iyfnet.org/iyf-programs
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there is no showing this university took government money. (too new?).
FYI to all:
Schneiderman probed for allegedly tapping Trumps for cash
By Carl Campanile
March 4, 2015 | 3:35am
The state ethics watchdog has launched a probe into whether state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman illegally solicited campaign contributions from Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband while investigating The Donald’s for-profit school, The Post has learned.
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http://nypost.com/2015/03/04/schneiderman-probed-for-allegedly-tapping-trumps-for-cash/
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Clinton effort to rescue jbush?
Oh yes, Gizmodo is part of Gawker Media which is owned by Nick Denton, a far left wing militant homosexual who claims to have slept with Christine O'Donnell and infuses all his blogs with his far left ideology.
Say no more.
There are two sides to every story:
http://nypost.com/2015/03/04/schneiderman-probed-for-allegedly-tapping-trumps-for-cash/
Sounds pretty much like the high-cost seminar biz. Surely not illegal. Who are these chumps who have $35K to spend and spend it supposedly so unwisely?
So ‘university’ was misleading? Sounds like he changed the name once he was warned about it.
Yawn.
I remember it. So how do the bureaucrats define University?
why not link directly to the TIME news article which has word for word what is on this linked “universitynews” site?
university= “educational institution which affords maximum opportunity for bribes for politicians”
They keep recycling all of these old skeletons. PREDICTION: Teflon Don escapes again.
Wait...you mean...Xerox Document University isn’t a real University....oh no what are we gonna do. I blame the confederate flag.
it also destroys the report that tried this, and the person who brings the charges in NY is finished.
It is about time that we have a sociopath on our side. One that is working for us. Go Trump!
You are certainly right about that!
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump fires back at AG Schneiderman with $100M suit over Trump University case
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trump-fires-back-schneiderman-100m-suit-article-1.1710896
The MSM wants to destroy Trump. They’ll blame him for anything anyone of the thousands of people who have worked for him have done...
Not gonna buy this crap...
Minn. attorney general sues Globe University
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two colleges, accusing the schools of misleading criminal justice students about their ability to land a job in their field and transferring credits to other institutions.
Swanson contends the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University try to attract prospective students who want to become police officers, but don’t offer the educational requirements to become a licensed police officer under Minnesota law. The schools, which are under common ownership, aren’t regionally accredited and don’t offer a program approved by a state standards board.
Trump University Was A Scam, Say Former Students
http://time.com/money/4010695/trump-university-scam-donald-trump/
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