teleSUR English | 3/14/2016
Donald Trump has been called a con artist many times, but not only on the campaign trail. The real estate tycoon — who, though a billionaire, has filed multiple times for bankruptcy — has been hit with hundreds of lawsuits, public records show, many of them for fraud and, in some cases, for being an all-around bad person.
The Trump Organization, the centerpiece of the Republican front-runner’s bragging rights, has a long history of social and fiscal irresponsibility. As early as 1983, Trump was accused of conspiring to employ “non-union Polish workers ‘off-the-books’ and deprive them of pension and welfare contributions owed to the Funds on their behalf,” according to court records. The Polish workers, many of them undocumented immigrants, were not even given the US$4 to $5 an hour they were promised.
Trump settled the case for an undisclosed amount.
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 