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Wed Jun 1, 2016, 04:40 PM Jun 2016

Ex-Employees Criticize Trump University, Calling It ‘Scheme’ and ‘Total Lie’ [View all]

Newly released documents in a lawsuit against Trump University cite several former employees of the school as saying the university didn't live up to what it promised students—calling it a “fraudulent scheme” and “a total lie.”

Among the most scathing assessments from former workers came from Ronald Schnackenberg, a witness for the plaintiffs who worked for the school as a Trump University sales manager in Manhattan for less than a year in 2007.

He described boiler room-like pressure tactics that “preyed upon the elderly and uneducated,” saying he believed that “Trump University was engaging in misleading, fraudulent and dishonest conduct.”

The declarations of former employees and other internal company documents were unsealed Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the litigation, ordered the release of the documents last Friday.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/several-ex-employees-at-trump-university-call-it-a-scheme-1464787317

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