Trump ordered to expand document search in suit alleging he endorsed pyramid scam
Source: Washington Post
President Trump and three of his adult children have been ordered by a federal judge to search through 15 years of business records for materials that could inform a lawsuit alleging they profited by promoting a marketing scam targeting vulnerable investors.
Trump is being sued by four people who say they were duped into joining the multilevel marketing company ACN years ago because of his endorsement. The suit characterizes ACN as a pyramid scheme and accuses Trump of having made misleading claims as a paid pitchman prior to his presidency. All four say they suffered financially as a result.
The order on Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Lorna Schofield allows the plaintiffs to look further into the Trump Organizations history to 2005 for others who may have been involved in the presidents deal with ACN.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, dates to October 2018. Racketeering claims were dismissed but state-level fraud charges were allowed to proceed and the document-production process known as discovery is well underway. That could turn up names of people at the presidents family-run real estate company and other entities under its control whom the plaintiffs could seek to depose.
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safeinOhio
(32,687 posts)DeVoss family?
paleotn
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(36,817 posts)The investor who truly made the most by putting money into Trump was Putin.
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)"Return on Investment" of all time....................
Lonestarblue
(10,007 posts)He has violated the law for decades, but our legal system lets rich white guys like him commit multimillion dollar crimes while poor people who cant pay a $50 fine get locked in jail and lose their jobsthe only source of ever being able to pay fines.
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)the rich will nail her to the cross for not "staying in her place".........
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)paleotn
(17,920 posts)It's what they do.
rickford66
(5,523 posts)They ain't gonna find anything.
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(493 posts)Senator McCain said if we nominate Trump he will destroy us. And we will deserve it.