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By William D. Cohan
Donald J. Trump has 2.43 million followers on Twitter, making him the 670th most followed person in the global Twitterverse. Last fall he was sandwiched there between Lonny Rashid Lynn Jr., better known as the Chicago-born hip-hop artist Common, and Alejandro Fernández, or El Potrillo, the Mexican singer.
The Donald likes to tweet about his many triumphs and to re-tweet exhortations for him to run for president and save the country. On October 29, he re-tweeted a boast from his daughter Ivankawho has more than 1.5 million followersthat the yet to be completed Trump International Golf Club, in Dubai, was voted by the International Property Awards the Best Golf Development in the Middle East. That same day, he revealed that his Virginia winery had been awarded the coveted Virginia Double Gold Medal.
One project The Donald isnt crowing about on Twitteror anywhere else, for that matteris the public-relations problem known first as Trump University and then as the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, his effort to teach the great unwashed (for as much as $35,000 a head) his vaunted investing techniques. If Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, is to be believed, this particular (now defunct) Trump enterprise was nothing short of out-and-out fraud. Touré, a host of The Cycle on MSNBC, appears to agree. He tweeted to The Donald, Why did you rob all those Trump University students out of their money?
Schneiderman thinks thats a good question, and he wants a good answer. Last August the attorney generals office filed suit against Trump and his associates for more than $40 million in New York State Supreme Court, claiming that between 2005 and 2011 they intentionally misled over 5,000 individuals nationwide, including some 600 New York State residents, who paid to participate in live seminars and mentorship programs with the promise of learning Trumps real estate investing techniques. Schneiderman asserted that Trump personally made about $5 million from the endeavoralthough Trump said he intended to donate any profits to charity. (Now he says that between legal fees and refunds no money is left to do so.)
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http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/01/trump-university-fraud-scandal
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(16,172 posts)I thought the title of the OP was "blue hair on campus, (Trump defrauding students).
disregard my entire post, ok?