The Trump University scandal just got a lot worse.
“A Trump University seminar presentation advised students to try and boost their credit card limit by inflating their income by $75,000, according to documents made public in federal court this week. The instruction, legal experts said, could amount to a lesson in bank fraud.
“‘If someone is encouraging people to make a false representation about their current income — that might be an appropriate target for prosecution,’ said John W. Moscow, former head of the Frauds Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s office. ‘If the caller actually does what they were told to do, that could easily be fraud,’ agreed Randall M. Fox, who served as founding Bureau Chief of New York Attorney General’s Taxpayer Protection Bureau.”
Read this story here. The best Trump can say in his defense is that he wasn’t personally involved, third-party contractors handled the dirty work of fleecing customers, and he merely profited from the use of his name. Read that story here.