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When Trump University rolled through Vancouver in 2010, teaching local crowds the secrets of wealth through real estate investment, the list of presenters and staff members included the names of a convicted cocaine trafficker, a controversial self-proclaimed “real estate guru” and an Ontario man implicated in a multimillion dollar fraud.

Trump University ran from 2005 to 2011 as a travelling, educational institute promising to teach “students” the strategies of its namesake, celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, now the U.S. Republican Party’s nominee in next week’s presidential election.

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But Trump University drew lawsuits from former students and scrutiny from U.S. authorities, who claimed the whole endeavour was an elaborate scam.

The instructors, students heard, were all “handpicked” by Trump himself.

A review of thousands of pages of Trump University customer satisfaction surveys reveals the names of at least 10 of the presenters and staff members who worked, in the first half of 2010, on three-day seminars in Vancouver, where the initiative was called “Trump Education.”