• Polish Workers Testified Against Trump Claiming They Approached Him About The Issues And Were Threatened With Deportation By His Underlings. “During the 16-day non-jury trial, a number of the Polish workers testified that Trump underlings had threatened them with deportation if they caused trouble. They walked in to the job from Brooklyn when a transit strike hit the city. Some of them slept at the site. Two workers further testified that they had approached Trump in person to demand overdue wages.” [Daily Beast, 7/8/15] • The Lawyer Representing The Undocumented Immigrants Was Threatened By Somebody Claiming To Be Named John Baron, A Pseudonym Trump Admitted To Using. “The lawyer representing the Polish Brigade had reported receiving a call from someone who identified himself as ‘John Baron’ and said Trump was ready to hit the lawyer with a $100 million lawsuit if he kept causing trouble. Trump now acknowledged on the stand that he had used the pseudonym ‘John Baron,’ as had one of his assistants. But Trump insisted that his use of it was only long after the completion of the Fifth Avenue tower, which became the first of many properties on which he so rapturously bestowed his real surname.” [Daily Beast, 7/8/15] TRUMP AS PLAINTIFF 2005: TRUMP SOUGHT $5 BILLION IN DAMAGES FROM AUTHOR TIMOTHY O’BRIEN, CLAIMING HE UNDERESTIMATED HIS NET WORTH A New Jersey Judge Dismissed Donald Trump’s $5 Billion Libel Lawsuit Against Author Timothy O’Brien For His Estimation That Trump’s Net Worth Was Only Between $150 Million And $250 Million. “A New Jersey judge said Donald Trump failed to convince her an author's estimate of his net worth at under $250 million was done out of malice. Author Timothy O'Brien's book, ‘Trump Nation: The Art of Being Donald,’ estimated Trump was worth between $150 million and $250 million, The New York Times reported Thursday. Trump sued, asking for $5 billion in damages. Publicly, Trump has claimed his is worth a far greater than a quarter of a billion dollars. Superior Court Judge Michele Fox in Camden, N.J., dismissed the case, saying Trump did not present ‘clear and convincing evidence to establish malice.’ Trump complained that ‘the libel laws in this country have never been fair. We proved our case 100 percent.’ He said he would appeal.” [UPI, 7/16/09] • New York Times’ Timothy O’Brien In 2005: Three People With Direct Knowledge Of Trump’s Finances Estimate His Net Worth At Somewhere Between $150 Million And $250 Million. “Three people with direct knowledge of Donald's finances, people who had worked closely with him for years, told me that they thought his net worth was somewhere between $150 million and $250 million. (Donald's casino holdings have recently rebounded in value, perhaps adding as much as $135 million to these estimates.) By anyone's standards, this still qualified Donald as comfortably wealthy, but none of these people thought that he was remotely close to being a billionaire.” [Timothy O’Brien, Business Day, New York Times, 10/23/05] • New York Times’ Timothy O’Brien: Donald Trump “Hyper-Inflated” The Values Of His Golf Course Deals. “Donald's recent golf course ventures have produced some sterling new properties, but the values he assigns those deals appear to be hyper-inflated. Donald's Palm Beach course, for example, has about 285 members who paid $250,000 for memberships, for a total of $71.25 million. Donald borrowed about $47 million to build the course and a new clubhouse. So he banked about $24 million on the deal, before other costs. He leases the land beneath the course from Palm Beach County; he doesn't own it. But Donald carries the course on his books as an asset worth $200 million.” [Timothy O’Brien, Business Day, New York Times, 10/23/05] • New York Times’ Timothy O’Brien: Donald Trump Dismissed Claims He Was Worth Less Than $250 Million As Naysaying By “Guys Who Have 400-Pound Wives At Home Who Are Jealous Of Me.” “Three people with direct knowledge of Donald's finances, people who had worked closely with him for years, told me that they thought his net worth was somewhere between $150 million and $250 million. … Donald dismissed this as naysaying. ‘You can go ahead and speak to guys who have 400-pound wives at home who are jealous of me, but the guys who really know me know I'm a great builder,’ he told me.” [Timothy O’Brien, Business Day, New York Times, 10/23/05] Confidential Page 73