Newly disclosed records in an ongoing lawsuit against Trump University reveal some striking similarities between the company and another controversial for-profit: Corinthian Colleges.Former students of Donald Trumps university are suing the enterprise for bilking them out of thousands of dollars with advertisements they say were misleading, promising a path to riches using the moguls real estate investing techniques. Records made public Tuesday show that internal company manuals, called playbooks, encouraged staff to use the struggles of potential clients to close sales. The guide gave the example of a potentially solid target as a single parent of three children that may need money for food.
It also implored staff to pepper prospective students with questions such as: Do you like living paycheck to paycheck? Do you enjoy seeing everyone else but yourself in their dream houses and driving their dream cars with huge checking accounts? Those people saw an opportunity, and didnt make excuses, like what youre doing now.
Exploiting desperation is the same kind of strategy employed by Corinthian, the defunct for-profit chain that operated Everest, WyoTech and Heald Colleges. An investigation by California Attorney General Kamala Harris uncovered a Corinthian marketing plan targeting single mothers, veterans and people with low incomes. The company went so far as to say its ideal students were isolated, impatient people with low self-esteem and few people in their lives who care about them, and who are stuck and unable to see and plan well for their future.
Corinthian lured students with promises of jobs that it failed to deliver, charging tens of thousands of dollars for degrees that many say are worthless. Along the same lines, former Trump students claim that in some cases they paid upward of $34,000 for seminars assuring success in real estate that never materialized.
Trump University is facing a $40 million lawsuit from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for deceptive marketing, including touting the moguls involvement in hand-picking instructors and claiming consumers would receive access to private sources of financing. Corinthian, meanwhile, ran afoul of federal regulators for falsely advertising job placement rates and career services that it couldnt deliver. Allegations that the company lied about the success of its programs ultimately led to the loss of its access to federal fun
Trump University was never licensed as a school nor sanctioned to receive federal financial aid like Corinthian, but both institutions made millions of dollars off of people believing that education would be their key to upward mobility. Before it shut down in 2010, Trump University pulled in an estimated $40 million from about 7,000 students, an amount that is dwarfed by the billions in taxpayer dollars that the Department of Education funneled to Corinthian in the form of federal loans and Pell grants.
I wonder if the kanary klub klan got their degrees from Trump University?
#1: buckeroo To: kanary klub klan (#0)
Is that how your degree looks?
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 20:43:35 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hondo68 To: buckeroo (#1)
kanary klub klan
Hondo68 posted on 2016-06-01 20:54:38 Reply Private Reply
#3: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#1)
It's not all lost, Buckboy. Ozzie had the perfect solution for you and John McCollum.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 20:59:56 Reply Private Reply
#4: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#3)
This is gonna be PHUN!
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 21:12:57 Reply Private Reply
#5: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#4)
Knock all those racists (like Willie) back in the closet... all those urban zoo animals and undocumented chalupa's that have been rioting and pissing in our neighborhoods... are soon to be endangered species.
You won't see Trump attending a career criminal thugs funeral... all while not attending one soldiers or cops funeral.
Say it.... PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 21:30:19 Reply Private Reply
#6: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#5)
Is Trump going to give all of Congress critters free Trump University degrees? Or is he going to charge them like he charged you, a pile of bucks?
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 21:44:01 Reply Private Reply
#7: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#6)
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 21:50:46 Reply Private Reply
#8: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#7)
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 21:59:37 Reply Private Reply
#9: Fred Mertz To: buckeroo (#1)
I used to read Mad Magazine.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-06-01 22:06:25 Reply Private Reply
#10: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#8)
We ain't "equal", Buckyboy. Some people and cultures bring more or less to the table. Equality is a libtard ideal... and the very cancer that's decayed our society as you see it now. The very cancer that spawned the millennium generational trash of today. Where everyone is special.... make me puke.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:06:37 Reply Private Reply
#11: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#10)
That is where you get your ass sorely kicked, pal. That is why your are so phuckin' paranoid to possess 50,000+ primers in your mom's basement. BTW, those SS casings need some polish as the relative humidity rots them away with rust.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 22:11:50 Reply Private Reply
#12: buckeroo To: Fred Mertz (#9)
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 22:17:00 Reply Private Reply
#13: Fred Mertz To: buckeroo (#12)
I think there will be fireworks there on July 20 or thereabouts.
Pebbles might get his head bashed in.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-06-01 22:27:35 Reply Private Reply
#14: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#11)
lol
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:36:39 Reply Private Reply
#15: buckeroo To: Fred Mertz (#13)
Anyone attending any of the "independent" GOP/DEM conventions are looking for trouble this year.
The US government has created the forecast of riots in the streets. Man, the shit is going to hit the fan.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 22:37:23 Reply Private Reply
#16: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#14)
From the official US Declaration of Independence:
Go phuck yourself about your idea of inequality, pal.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 22:44:35 Reply Private Reply
#17: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#15)
They, along with the libertarian liberals all all scared of big bad Trump... they are gonna try and get one last Furguson Missouri in before they get forgot about.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:45:47 Reply Private Reply
#18: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#16)
Negative, Buckyboy. The writers of that document were narrow sighted. Some are faggots. Some are lazy... Hell, some are high all the time and wear Ron Paul shirts.
We ain't Equal, we never were. Many people are smarter, stronger and WAY MORE VALUABLE than you.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:49:27 Reply Private Reply
#19: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#17)
And now you get a stipend for doing almost nothing while you criticise and demonise all others around yourself. Pal, you are correct to be afraid and have 50,000+ primers rusting away. Wanna know why? You have taken the lifeblood of others by doing nothing throughout life while creating the tiered social structure you were taught about about in the USA. You are the PROBLEM because of attitude and training. And it is evident by your admission of being paranoid.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 22:53:37 Reply Private Reply
#20: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#16)
If only you weren't weak and over sensitized to make that happen. You'd cry like Tea Party Reveler did when the cops just touched him. HELP!!!! I'M DYING, SOMEONE HELP ME... I'M BRING ASSAULTED.... HELP!!!
I still laugh at that video. He was the toughest racist he knew... until a few cops grabbed him. LMMFAO.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:54:25 Reply Private Reply
#21: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#19)
I take a pension check that's paid from a private mutual fund, Buckyboy.... I contributed into that fund. I deserve everything I get. And the proof that you aren't my equal, is I was smart enough to EARN that pension while you were dumb enough to complain about those who do... like every socialist libtard.
You ain't spreading my wealth, Buckboy. We ain't equal. lol
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 22:59:02 Reply Private Reply
#22: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#18)
And don't forget yourself.
But, we are talking about GOVERNMENT structures. Not about about you playing with a squirt gun filled with water resting in a sidehip holster while your quickdraw against a lookingglassmirror.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 23:00:31 Reply Private Reply
#23: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#22)
We AIN'T EQUAL... we never were. People shouldn't be treated EQUALLY... they should be treated FAIRLY.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 23:05:20 Reply Private Reply
#24: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#21)
No you don't. You took taxpayer money for doing nothing worthwhile from the People for twenty years. You added to the overall debt of the nation while not adding value towards a productive and civilized society.
You are nothing more than an architype for fascism.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 23:05:52 Reply Private Reply
#25: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#24)
1) it's called a paycheck for hours worked. Kinda like what you get but my work was more important... and unlike you, there were laws prohibiting me from striking... where you could picket with a sign and a thumb up your ass because you worked a job so unimportant that it hardly mattered if you worked or not.
2) My salary was paid out of local tax dollars, nitwit. Not federal taxes. I bet you have the IQ of a chalkboard. lol
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 23:14:58 Reply Private Reply
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GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-01 23:18:09 Reply Private Reply
#27: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#25)
Your salary was a contribution by the federal government.
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-01 23:23:40 Reply Private Reply
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TrappedInMd posted on 2016-06-02 08:02:34 Reply Private Reply
#29: VxH To: buckeroo (#1)
Birds of a feather.
VxH posted on 2016-06-02 17:18:17 Reply Private Reply
#30: VxH To: GrandIsland (#18)
Commerce between master and slave is ___________?
VxH posted on 2016-06-02 17:21:41 Reply Private Reply