Lawsuit accuses Trump of misleading investors with get-rich-quick schemes

Suit alleges that the Trump Organization operated for years as a fraudulent racketeering enterprise

Donald Trump was on Monday accused in a lawsuit of misleading vulnerable investors who lost money in a multi-level marketing company he endorsed in speeches and on his reality TV show The Celebrity Apprentice.

One plaintiff was a hospice worker in California who was persuaded to spend thousands upfront to join a telemarketing company that Trump promoted as a lucrative opportunity – and yet she allegedly only ever made $38 from her work with that company.

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