New Jersey AG probes Trump golf club after undocumented maids claim racially-charged harassment, threats

New York Daily News        CHRIS   SOMMERFELDT         
 Dec 14th 2018
New Jersey’s top law enforcement agency is looking into claims of widespread harassment and immigration fraud at President Trump’s Garden State golf club after several former and current housekeepers came forward claiming mistreatment, the Daily News has learned.

Anibal Romero, a Newark-based attorney, said Friday the state attorney general’s office recently reached out to him about claims that five of his clients were routinely threatened and called racial slurs while working at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.

The women — all of whom are or were undocumented immigrants — also allege their supervisor at the extravagant estate set them up with fraudulent work permits and threatened to report them to federal authorities if they spoke out.

“These are elements of federal crimes and it’s important that the state attorney general’s office or federal authorities investigate this case,” Romero told The News. “It is unacceptable that employees of the Trump National Golf Club have to endure this type of abuse.”

Romero said he has also established contact with federal authorities at “the highest level” but declined to specify what agencies he’s been in touch with.

Citing policy, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey AG’s office declined to confirm or deny whether an investigation has been opened into the Trump club.

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not immediately return a request for comment.

Victorina Morales, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who is still employed at the club, and Sandra Diaz, a Costa Rican national who used to work there, first came forward with their allegations in interviews with The New York Times earlier this month.

Since then, Romero says three more undocumented women who used to work at the club have reached out to him with similar allegations of harassment and immigration fraud.

Two of the women, who are from Mexico and Ecuador respectively, have declined to give their names out of fear of repercussion.

The other woman, Gilberta Dominguez, is from Mexico and said she was also subject to racial slurs, threats and was set up with fraudulent papers while working at the club, according to Romero.

Morales is the only one of Romero’s clients who still works at the club.

“Based on conversations my client has had with people who are undocumented and are still working for the golf club, no one has been fired, they are still reporting to work and are being told that everything is going to be okay,” Romero said. “This is extremely troublesome for us because we are concerned that they might be coerced into not speaking.”

The state AG development comes as the President faces a myriad of legal headaches, including federal and state investigations into his campaign, his inaugural committee and his namesake foundation.

Romero said the President is guilty of flagrant hypocrisy by spouting immigrant-bashing rhetoric from the Oval Office while at the same time employing undocumented workers at his namesake golf club. However, the attorney pointed his fiercest finger at members of Congress.

“The problem continues because the work is needed,” Romero said. “In New York City, we see undocumented immigrants in every restaurant, in every construction site, in every supermarket, and if Congress simply passed a law allowing them to work legally, the problem would be fixed.”

Witchy's opinion  : 
The problem of illegals working in the US, would be solved, if the existing laws against hiring illegals  ,was enforced and the illegals were deported.
The entire trump empire is beginning to crumble!     Is there any member of the trump empire, who is not a racist pig?  What a hypocrite.   He wants to build a wall and deport all the illegals back to Mexico at the same time he has them working for him at some golf club in the northeast.    I'll bet a respectable number of senators, congressmen and house reps have illegals working for them as well.      What a cheap man  Trump   is unless he is spending tax payers money . . millions on his GOLF trips and millions are made at his resorts which is a conflict of interest. All this while the spinless republicans stay at seats and twiddle their thumbs . . what a bunch of punks.
 If the hotel is hiring and abusing illegal aliens, they need to be investigated and the responsible management people should be prosecuted to the full intent of the law.  Doubt the President is remotely aware of such happenings, but whoever is running his Hotel Operations should damn well be held accountable and fired if the allegations are true.  Then, the ambitious Attorney General can start investigating the other thousands of businesses who use illegal alien labor.The hotel is not a person.   Trump has to be held accountable.  Ignorance of the law is no excuse.  Of course he is far from ignorant.  He thinks he is above the law.  He may be right.  Time will tell.
Trump says build the wall .Surprise... they will tunnel under it. Change the law. Any one can claim asylum and they get to stay up to a year to appeal if they are denied. We need serious reform with safety in mind. Stop printing everything in a dozen languages. You want to live here speak English. Our ancestors had to! While true asylum seekers I welcome but we need to limit  the numbers. We can't care for our homeless our aging seniors and our vets who risk their lives for this country. There are true cases where asylum is needed but not in the numbers claimed.
Mueller is after him, New York is on his heels, and now Jersey is on his back.Trump ran on how HILLARY WAS GOING TO BE CAUGHT UP IN INVESTIGATIONS.  Republicans  believed every bit of what he said. now he is involved in so many investigations.  The Trump family has been known for hiring and mistreating illegals for decades. It's just another one of those things they don't believe should apply to them.

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