Sapol says initially she was taken in by the allure of the Trump name and his properties.
“My husband at the time thought investing money in Trump or a Trump property would be a good investment for our money. We were enticed to put down our money and buy one of the condos and we were very excited at the time.”
According to Sapol, she and her husband decided to invest after attending two cocktail parties for potential investors held at the Manchester Hyatt in Downtown San Diego.
“One of which I met Ivanka Trump, she was supposed to be my neighbor,” Sapol said. “I was supposed to share some sugar with her — we had a conversation about that.”
A few weeks later, pending doom started to set it as they saw no progress on the site.
“All of a sudden, the offices were closed, all of a sudden fences went up and all of a sudden we weren’t getting phone calls back from the Trump Baja property and we started to freak out,” Sapol said.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Sapol is one of 250 investors, mostly from Southern California, who collectively lost $32.5 million.
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