Ex-Employees Criticize Trump University, Calling It ‘Scheme’ and ‘Total Lie’

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3. From the Guardian: A 'total lie': Trump University ex-staffers condemn school as 'fraudulent scheme'

Source: The Guardian

A 'total lie': Trump University ex-staffers condemn school as 'fraudulent scheme'

Testimony from three former employees in class-action lawsuit lambasts
school that ‘preyed upon the elderly and uneducated’

Rupert Neate in New York
Wednesday 1 June 2016 19.52 BST

Some of the harshest critics of Trump University have been revealed to be former employees of the now-defunct university majority-owned by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican US presidential candidate.

In sworn testimony, three former staff members have described the real estate school as “a facade, a total lie” and a “fraudulent scheme” that “preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money”.

In extracts from their evidence to a class-action lawsuit against the school, made public this week, the former staff tell the inside story of the “front-end high-pressure speaker scam” at Trump University.

Ronald Schnackenberg, who worked at Trump University’s headquarters on Wall Street between 2006 and 2007, said he felt compelled to resign because he thought the company was “engaging in misleading, fraudulent and dishonest conduct”.

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