Surprise! Latinos For Trump Founder Is A Real Estate Scammer
Source: crooksandliars.com
Surprise! Latinos For Trump Founder Is A Real Estate Scammer
By Karoli Kuns
9/02/16 11:11am
One of the really scummy things to come out of the Great Recession were the predatory real estate scammers who crawled out of the woodwork to promise families they'd help save their houses, only to actually take their money.
It turns out Mr. "Taco Trucks On Every Corner" Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez was one of those. Here is his LinkedIn profile, screencapped here for posterity.
According to HERA, a non-profit state organization which helps people with housing issues, Gutierrez is a serial scammer. In their 2013-2014 Annual Report, they describe their own dealings with him, when his abuses of immigrants and their loan modifications came to light.
Abuses leveled at immigrants can be particularly vicious. As part of a foreclosure rescue scam, Marco Gutierrez bullied and intimidated HERAs monolingual Spanish-Speaking homeowner client, charging over $16,000 for a loan modification. He took the homeowners car as partial payment but never changed registration, racking up unpaid tickets under the homeowners name. When HERA helped the homeowner complain to authorities, the scammer filed a meritless lawsuit against the homeowner (and against a HERA staffer). In the course of defending the case, HERA discovered that Gutierrez was a serial litigant who had filed dozens of actions against his clients. Gutierrez was using the court system to bully vulnerable residents across several counties into paying amounts they did not owe him and to retaliate against those who complained about his practices. After defeating Gutierrezs claims HERA brought a successful vexatious litigant motion against Gutierrez. As a result, both HERAs client and countless other unrepresented homeowners who might have fallen prey to Gutierrezs tactics are now protected......................
Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/surprise-latinos-trump-founder-real-estate
I have not had on the TV today but just found this. I did see him last evening with JOY!
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KaroliKuns ?@Karoli 2h2 hours ago
If you were wondering about Taco Truck Guy, wonder no more. http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/surprise-latinos-trump-founder-real-estate #tacoTrucksOnEveryCorner
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)And I'm sure he considers himself a great sucess, preying on his own people.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Birds of a feather....
Paladin
(28,276 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)Two peas in a pod.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)did anyone do a back ground check?
bet the secret service is just thrilled at the prospect of who might be coming to dinner in a trump whitehouse.
PSPS
(13,616 posts)His pay is probably just a charade to launder campaign money into Trump's pockets, like every other expense incurred by his "campaign."
NBachers
(17,146 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Caca!!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)sheshe2
(83,927 posts)A**holes!
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)He probably looks up to the ultimate scam artist.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)catbyte
(34,457 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)o_o. Amazing.
Eugene
(61,963 posts)Gutierrez is Trump's kind of businessman.
He saw advantage and he took it.