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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Fri Dec 17, 2021, 04:18 PM Dec 2021

Donald Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' Tapes Are Being Reviewed in a Fraud Suit

Source: Bloomberg

Unaired footage from Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” TV show is being reviewed by a team of lawyers in Los Angeles as part of a suit accusing the former president and his children of ripping off viewers for years by endorsing a troubled multilevel marketing company.

Lawyers for people who say they were fraudulently induced by Trump to invest in the marketing company, ACN Opportunity LLC, have been waiting for almost two years to access the tapes held by Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as part of a federal suit they filed against the Trumps in 2018.

They lawyers “are working diligently to make efficient progress” in reviewing two episodes of the reality-TV program, plaintiffs attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a letter Thursday to the New York judge overseeing the case. They’re looking for evidence including unscripted, behind-the-scenes chatter among the Trumps, who allegedly didn’t really believe in the products they pitched.

Kaplan wrote to advise the judge that ACN this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take its appeal challenging a federal appeals court ruling denying ACN’s attempt to force the Trump case into arbitration, even though ACN isn’t a party in the litigation. In the letter, Kaplan called it an “extraordinary” delay.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/trump-celebrity-apprentice-tapes-being-reviewed-in-fraud-suit




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Donald Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' Tapes Are Being Reviewed in a Fraud Suit (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2021 OP
Are they getting hazard pay... Thomas Hurt Dec 2021 #1
Maalox and Imodium. NurseJackie Dec 2021 #10
The Information Age just keeps on producing empedocles Dec 2021 #2
So Trump spoke one way in front of the cameras... JohnnyRingo Dec 2021 #3
Just curious, what the *&(&%#& bloody hell Rural_Progressive Dec 2021 #4
Dark Triad. Look it up. It describes TFG to the letter and explains his actions perfectly. AZLD4Candidate Dec 2021 #5
👍 Joinfortmill Dec 2021 #6
"didn't really believe in the products they pitched." Nailed the whole tRump ethos. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #7
don't forget ripping off charity fund's !! nothing surprises me about this bunch ! monkeyman1 Dec 2021 #8
Assumed innocent until proven to be.........oh wait, it's Trump. twodogsbarking Dec 2021 #9
Keep in mind that this is a fraud suit... brooklynite Dec 2021 #11
LEAK them! Somebody PLEASE leak them! FakeNoose Dec 2021 #12
? RandPaulsNeighbor Dec 2021 #13

JohnnyRingo

(19,642 posts)
3. So Trump spoke one way in front of the cameras...
Fri Dec 17, 2021, 05:26 PM
Dec 2021

... and another way when they were off the air.
Did not... see that coming.

Rural_Progressive

(1,107 posts)
4. Just curious, what the *&(&%#& bloody hell
Fri Dec 17, 2021, 05:30 PM
Dec 2021

do any of these cases that TFG and his sycophants keep appealing to the SCOTUS have to do with issues of the Constitution?

AZLD4Candidate

(6,460 posts)
5. Dark Triad. Look it up. It describes TFG to the letter and explains his actions perfectly.
Fri Dec 17, 2021, 06:11 PM
Dec 2021

When one with the dark triad gets caught, they either do everything they can to discredit they accusers by any means necessary, run to allies to gain support, or take everyone down with them when all else fails.

 

brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
11. Keep in mind that this is a fraud suit...
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 11:12 AM
Dec 2021

What he said about Blacks, Jews, Women, etc. is irrelevant and will not be entered into the Court record.

RandPaulsNeighbor

(104 posts)
13. ?
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 08:29 AM
Dec 2021

I never understood how that show was popular. I never watched, but saw the commercials and was always shocked at my friends that loved it.

I was pretty young, but could not understand the appeal of that douche then. Luckily, my friends all agree with me now.

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