Trump U staff included Canadian couple involved in fraud

Among the people with serious financial problems who taught for Trump University is a case that crossed international borders, an Ontario couple who securities regulators sanctioned over a multimillion-dollar fraud, according to a joint investigation.
Records, reviewed through a joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Canadian Press, show a husband-and- wife team who called themselves Dave Ravindra and Rita Bahadur taught a course for Trump's program on "Creative Financing" in Canada in 2010, shortly before his namesake real-estate seminars folded amid mounting complaints from former students and inquiries from US regulators.
The names match known aliases used by Ravindra Dave, 59, and Chandramattie Dave, 55, according to Canadian authorities.

The Ontario Securities Commission concluded last year that the Daves defrauded numerous Canadian investors between 2009 and 2012.
Records also show that "Dave Ravindra" was stripped of his license to practice real estate in Ontario in 2008, two years before he went to work for Trump University.
The Daves, who immigrated to Canada from Guyana decades ago, have filed for personal bankruptcy at least four times since 2001 twice by him, and twice by her, records show.

Government records list at least nine different names used by the couple, a mix of pseudonyms that include various combinations mixing the order of their first, middle and last names.

Trump said he personally hand-picked only the best people to teach for Trump University, but the Daves are only the latest examples of those selected despite questionable credentials. AP reported last month that the roster of Trump University speakers and staff included at least four convicted felons, including a Florida cocaine trafficker and a former Army sergeant from Georgia court-martialed for sexually assaulting the 8-year-old daughter of a fellow soldier.
Half the 68 former Trump University staffers whose backgrounds the AP reviewed had personal bankruptcies, home foreclosures, credit card defaults, tax liens or other indicators of significant money troubles prior to teaching Trump University courses promoting wealth building.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued in 2013, alleging that Trump University was a "fraud from beginning to end," geared toward pressuring cash-strapped students into buying ever more expensive seminars.
In California, two federal class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of former students. One is headed to trial November 28, three weeks after the presidential election.