Donald Trump's cases keep on piling as it has just been revealed that before the Trump University lawsuit, there was Trump Institute wherein he offered get-rich schemes and plagiarized the textbooks used.
The New York Times reported that back in 2005, when the GOP presumptive nominee was transitioning to capitalizing on his fame via starring in a reality show and product-licensing deals, Trump entered the field of for-profit education. He invested his money on Trump University and it is the center of the lawsuit he is facing now as many of the people who enrolled in the classes offered said that they were defrauded.
He is then being linked to Trump Institute, a seminar business he did not own. Operators reportedly rented out hotel ballrooms all over the country and invited people to pay around $2,000 to hear Trump regarding his wealth-creating secrets and strategies. However, just like with Trump University, he has made false promises and did little interviews about Trump Institute. In one infomercial in 2005, he was heard saying, "I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar. I'm teaching what I've learned."
More on the Trump Institute scandal, it has been found out that the materials that students received after paying the seminar fees, were plagiarized from a real estate manual published a decade earlier. At least 20 pages of the Trump Institute instructional book were said to be plagiarized in part or entirely from the book entitled "Real Estate Mastery System."
One of the people who attended the seminar, Carol Minto of West Haven, Connecticut, shared that she attended one seminar in 2009 and spent $1,997.94. She had to ask legal help in order to get a refund.
Although Trump owned 93 percent of the Trump University, the Trump Institute was owned by a couple named Irene and Mike Milin. The have been marketing get-rich-quick courses back in the 1980s. The Trump Institute eventually earned an F from the Better Business Bureau and has faced a legal turmoil.
