Angry Investors Take On Trump

Investors in the Donald-Trump-branded Baja Mexico project have sued Trump now that the project has folded. I'd been expecting this since November when we wrote about the troubles for the Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico and received comments from burned investors. The project was not being built by Trump but he lent his name to the project and condo buyers say they invested based on the value of that name. Those who bought into the project have lost all their invested money, a reported total of $32 million on units that ranged in price from the mid $300,000s to over $2 million. No one seems to be sure exactly where the money went. CBS News has an interview with Ivanka Trump who says she is sorry for those people that lost money but that she and her father are "in the same boat" in terms of being taken in by the developers. Ivanka is named in the lawsuit along with her father and her brother, Donald Trump Jr. as well as the project's developers, Irongate Development, its partner company Punta Bandera Investors USA, and its real estate brokers S&P Destination Properties.
Trump has put his name on everything from vodka to office furniture but lawsuits like these as well as the troubles that have befallen his Trump-branded Atlantic City casino empire are eroding that name's prestige.
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
xor Mar 17th 2009 7:29PM
trumpuppet isnt intereted in small potatoes, he wants the big payoff, to get investors to build in iraquakie & then screw them, mexico is too small potatoes, mexicans are cheap bastards, ripping off tourist wasn't working...
Ros Mar 17th 2009 7:45PM
The guy's got an ego the size of Manhattan. He's a self-absorbed jerk, who inherited a fortune from his father. I wouldn't buy anything that had his name, or ugly face on it.
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howardroark43 Mar 17th 2009 8:02PM
i like trump... he's like a characature of what a wheeling and dealing businessman should be... he cracks me up... ivanka's a yummy little biscuit, too...
BEEZZER Mar 17th 2009 8:21PM
TRUMP is a CARD, and in 'Donald's' case , he doesn't
have one. A fat cat with a fat head under his fat hair.
Dale Kendall Mar 17th 2009 8:48PM
I Can't Imagine investing in anything connected with Trump. He mistreats people, Uses Them, and disgards them as Trash. It's evident in his TV shows. He may very well become broke and lonely and it would only be his own fault. People that invest with him deserve a shock.
Bruce Mar 17th 2009 9:03PM
Well, "Mr Donald" I'm sure that you will "skate" out from under this too, just like all the "Ponzi" crooks who have gone before you. And you'll go on to make more mindless TV shows, and for what??.....your next "apprentice" will be brainwashed into doing your "dirty work"??...."Art Of The Deal"???....MY ASS!!!...you deserve the "BOOT OF THE HEEL"...you're nothing but a SWINDLER!!!!!!!