One former attendee, Christen Clifford, a writer and actress who now lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, proudly recalled breast-feeding her son, Felix, at the bar before ordering a martini.
Rather, there seemed to be a genuine interest in helping one another learn and grow, a testament perhaps to the synergies that can arise from meetings between people like this (seven former attendees of the conference just launched a business together--Qwiki, the world's first video encyclopedia).
Schnackenberg's testimony was one of the documents unsealed by a judge in the class-action suit, which was brought in California by some of Trump University's disgruntled former attendees.
And the party's description of the mosque where the event was held ― the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia ― mentions former attendees who have been linked to terror, but makes no reference to the center's outreach to the FBI, including hosting a top FBI official at the mosque in January.
Initiators select former attendees and ask them to become buddies, but apply no explicit selection criteria.
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CORPUS CHRISTI — At the Mexican Independence Day festival here this month, where the accordion-fueled sounds of the Tigrillos drifted across the grounds of a former greyhound racetrack, attendees like Sara Gaona came to celebrate their native country.
Asked about the threats by insurgents, one attendee, Mahdi Salih, a former major general in Hussein's army, said people would not be scared away from the polls.
One attendee, Ismael Gonzalez, 59, a former New Yorker, had traveled from his current home in Las Vegas specifically to be at the parade.
