metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
This is from USA Today:
Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.
Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages...
The actions in total paint a portrait of Trump’s sprawling organization frequently failing to pay small businesses and individuals, then sometimes tying them up in court and other negotiations for years. In some cases, the Trump teams financially overpower and outlast much smaller opponents, draining their resources. Some just give up the fight, or settle for less; some have ended up in bankruptcy or out of business altogether... -- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
And here's what also bothers me, namely why do we not give prison time to business owners who knowingly violate the law? If the reader of this and I go and rob a 7-11, do you think we might end up in jail? Fines alone can just be a relative slap on the wrist because for every one illegal transaction that may get caught, there may be numerous others that don't, therefore crime does pay, otherwise Trump wouldn't have kept doing this.
There's all too often a double standard in our country when the wealthy get caught versus the rest of us, and how many CEO's and business owners do we actually see going to prison for defrauding others? Very few, and yet the FBI in the past at least, theorized that there's around four rimes more money defrauded in white-collar crime versus blue-collar crime each year.
And as far as Trump is concerned, since these are not just allegations in many cases with Trump since he lost some of the law suits, we now have the Crook-In-Chief as our president, so is there any surprise why his crookedness keeps on going? Hell's bells, even a kindergarten student can connect these dots.
Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.
Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages...
The actions in total paint a portrait of Trump’s sprawling organization frequently failing to pay small businesses and individuals, then sometimes tying them up in court and other negotiations for years. In some cases, the Trump teams financially overpower and outlast much smaller opponents, draining their resources. Some just give up the fight, or settle for less; some have ended up in bankruptcy or out of business altogether... -- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
And here's what also bothers me, namely why do we not give prison time to business owners who knowingly violate the law? If the reader of this and I go and rob a 7-11, do you think we might end up in jail? Fines alone can just be a relative slap on the wrist because for every one illegal transaction that may get caught, there may be numerous others that don't, therefore crime does pay, otherwise Trump wouldn't have kept doing this.
There's all too often a double standard in our country when the wealthy get caught versus the rest of us, and how many CEO's and business owners do we actually see going to prison for defrauding others? Very few, and yet the FBI in the past at least, theorized that there's around four rimes more money defrauded in white-collar crime versus blue-collar crime each year.
And as far as Trump is concerned, since these are not just allegations in many cases with Trump since he lost some of the law suits, we now have the Crook-In-Chief as our president, so is there any surprise why his crookedness keeps on going? Hell's bells, even a kindergarten student can connect these dots.
