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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,667 posts)
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 06:58 PM Nov 2021

Trump defrauded investors in marketing scheme, lawsuit says (plaintiffs get Apprentice tapes)

TFG used the Apprentice to promote an illegal pyramid scheme Now the Plaintiffs have access to the tapes of this show




Four anonymous plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against President Trump, his business and his three eldest children in federal court Monday, alleging that the Trumps helped promote fraudulent investments that duped investors.

At issue are promotional spots and speeches that Trump made on behalf of marketing company ACN, also known as American Communications Network, which charged $499 for the chance to sell video phones licensed by the company, and sometimes extracted thousands of dollars later to have a chance of recouping the money.

Trump earned $450,000 each for three speeches he gave for ACN, according to his government disclosure form, but in marketing videos he told potential investors that the opportunity came “without any of the risks most entrepreneurs have to take” and that his endorsement was “not for any money.”

The plaintiffs allege that the investments were a sham and that Trump and his family promoted them — including twice on his TV show “Celebrity Apprentice” — despite knowing they were fraudulent.

In a 164-page complaint filed with the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs ask for damages including financial relief and a ruling barring the Trumps and their company from promoting such offers in the future.

The fun now starts

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Trump defrauded investors in marketing scheme, lawsuit says (plaintiffs get Apprentice tapes) (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 OP
This is going to be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 #1
Here's the link to download entire complaint FakeNoose Nov 2021 #2
TFG is incapable of doing any legal Javaman Nov 2021 #3
I brought extra butter for the popcorn Hekate Nov 2021 #4
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 #9
Highly recommended. 7wo7rees Nov 2021 #5
If these tapes play the way I think they will, this judge may have just saved our democracy. Midnight Writer Nov 2021 #6
Seems like that would be illegal. Donut? dchill Nov 2021 #7
so the suit was filed in 2018 and only today did the judge say they could view the tapes??? Takket Nov 2021 #8

FakeNoose

(32,823 posts)
2. Here's the link to download entire complaint
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 08:38 PM
Nov 2021
https://t.co/y34qAHmK5k?amp=1

(click on this link to download the PDF of the civil lawsuit.)

So The Chump Corporation is named as the No.1 co-defendant? Hmmmm...




Hekate

(90,867 posts)
4. I brought extra butter for the popcorn
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 09:21 PM
Nov 2021


I hope I live to see that family so financially broken that they all end up at the ancestral whorehouse.



7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
5. Highly recommended.
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 09:34 PM
Nov 2021

Judd Legum is a badass y'all.

First, it would be nice to see Team Trump take another L and be found in judgment. Pierce him at all opportunities.

But you should see what Judd does daily to Facebook and other bothersome creatures at his blog, www.popular.info

I am not an adbot. Just go there.

Midnight Writer

(21,819 posts)
6. If these tapes play the way I think they will, this judge may have just saved our democracy.
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 09:39 PM
Nov 2021

Tapes from a reality show can be culled to tell an enthralling story, the kind of story even MAGAs can be entranced by.

There could be nothing better for our Constitutional government than a "Lonesome Rhodes Moment" that brings down Trump and his cohorts.

Takket

(21,644 posts)
8. so the suit was filed in 2018 and only today did the judge say they could view the tapes???
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 09:46 PM
Nov 2021

3 years later?????

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