Serious HIV+ AMDK FT Fraudster Satki!!!!

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Data of 14,200 with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here
SINGAPORE - Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28).
Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 before being jailed in 2017 for several fraud and drug-related offences and lying to the Ministry of Manpower about his own HIV status.
His partner was Ler Teck Siang, a Singaporean doctor who was head of MOH's National Public Health Unit (NPHU) from March 2012 to May 2013 and had access to the HIV Registry for his work. He has been charged under the Official Secrets Act for failing to take reasonable care of confidential information regarding HIV-positive patients.
The records that have been leaked include those of 5,400 Singaporeans diagnosed with HIV up to January 2013, and 8,800 foreigners diagnosed up to December 2011, MOH said at a press conference at the College of Medicine Building.
This included each person's name, identification number, phone number and address, HIV test results and related medical information. The name, identification number, phone number and address of 2,400 people identified through contact tracing up to May 2007 was also included.
"We are sorry for the anxiety and distress caused by this incident," said the ministry in a statement.
"Our priority is the well being of the affected individuals," it added, saying that it has been contacting affected individuals to inform and help them since Saturday (Jan 26), and that it has worked with relevant parties to disable access to the information.
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong on leak of information on HIV patients



However, the information is still in the hands of Farrera-Brochez, who was deported after he had served his jail term. He currently remains outside Singapore.
It came to light on Monday that Farrera-Brochez, who was HIV-positive, had not only used his boyfriend's blood to pass blood tests so he could work in Singapore, but that he had also got hold of information illegally from the HIV registry which his doctor boyfriend had access to.
The latest breach, while not due to a cyber attack, comes after Singapore's worst cyber attack in 2018. From June 27 to July 4 last year, hackers infiltrated the computers of SingHealth and stole the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Farrera-Brochez, 33, who was a polytechnic lecturer here and held an employment pass, was sentenced to 28 months in jail in 2017 for offences including cheating and possession of drugs.
Farrera-Brochez's boyfriend, Singaporean doctor Ler, 36, had submitted his own blood sample in place of the American's to help him get an employment pass here. Ler, who is still a registered doctor, has been sentenced to two years in jail for abetment of cheating and for giving a false statement to a public servant, He is appealing.
The ministry said it was notified by the police last Tuesday (Jan 22) that confidential information of HIV patients had been leaked, and made a police report the following day (Jan 23).
Since 2016, it noted, additional safeguards against mishandling of information by authorised staff have been put in place, including a two-person approval process to download and decrypt information.
MOH stressed that it will continue to regularly review its systems to ensure they remain secure and that the necessary safeguards are in place.
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong told reporters on Monday: "We take a serious view of this matter. Our former staff has been charged in court and the case is pending, and we will not hesitate to take stern action against staff who violate security guidelines, abuse their authority or abuse their access to information."
He added: "I also understand the concerns, the anxiety and distress faced by our affected patients and our priority is their well-being.
"Going forward, we will continue to strengthen and to review our systems to ensure they are secure, and our priority remains the patients' well-being and we will extend whatever assistance and support that we can for them."
The Health Ministry has set up a hotline for those who need additional information, and counsellors are also available to assist them and to provide additional support if necessary, he said.
It has appealed to the public to notify the ministry immediately if they come across information related to the incident, and not to share it. Those with information or concerns can call the MOH hotline on 6325-9220.
When contacted, they police said they are seeking the help of their foreign counterparts in their investigations.
"The Police would like to remind the public that it is an offence under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for any person to be in possession of, communicate or use any of the confidential data that may have been disclosed. Police will not hesitate to take stern action, including prosecution, against those who have breached the OSA," said a spokesman.
A person found guilty of the wrongful possession, communication or use of confidential data can be fined up to $2,000, and jailed up to two years.

 

[laksaboy]

How many other homo doctors had the MOH employed?

 

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[Pinkieslut]

On Jan. 28, the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirms that confidential information of 14,200 individuals diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) along with 2,400 others culled from contact tracing have been leaked online illegally.

The unauthorised person who is in possession of such details is American Mikhy K Farrera Brochez.
Farrera Brochez, who is HIV-positive, lived in Singapore between January 2008 and June 2016.

His boyfriend, Singaporean Ler Teck Siang, who was the ex-Head of MOH’s National Public Health Unit (NPHU), was found guilty last year in 2018 of swapping out Farrera Brochez’s blood sample for his own.

This was to ensure Farrera Brochez was able to get an employment pass, deceiving the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) regarding his HIV status.

Ler had access to the HIV Registry for his work.

Farrera Brochez was remanded in prison in 2016 for numerous fraud and drug-related offences, including this particular incident.

This case would resurface two years later, as it was revealed that Farrera Brochez was in possession of the information, and confirmed that they were leaked online in 2019.

Timeline of events
Below is a summary of events leading up to the disclosure of information:

May 2016: MOH lodged a police report against Farrera Brochez after learning that he has confidential information from the HIV Registry. MOH searched his property and seized all relevant materials.

Ler confessed he had swapped his blood sample for Farrera Brochez’s.

May 2018: MOH learned that Farrera Brochez still had the information from 2016 but had not disclosed them. MOH lodged another police report and contacted the affected individuals to inform them about the leak.

Jan. 22, 2019: MOH was notified by the police that Farrera Brochez has more information from the HIV registry and these were leaked online.

In total, details of 14,200 HIV-infected persons in Singapore, as well as 2,400 of their contacts were stolen and leaked online. The records belong to 5,400 Singaporeans diagnosed with HIV up to January 2013, as well as 8,800 foreigners diagnosed up to 2011.

Jan. 23, 2019: MOH made a police report.

Jan. 24, 2019: MOH confirmed that the leaked information matched the HIV Registry’s records up to January 2013.

Jan 25, 2019: MOH worked with the relevant parties to disable access to the information that was leaked online.
MOH is in the process of contacting those who have been affected; members of the public not to circulate the information if they come across it online.

 

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What we know about Mikhy Farrera Brochez


SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (Jan 28) announced that the HIV-positive status and personal information of 14,200 people from Singapore’s HIV registry were leaked onlineby US citizen Mikhy Farrera Brochez, who had previously worked here as a lecturer in two polytechnics.

Brochez, who was deported in April last year, was jailed in 2016 for lying about his HIV status to gain an employment pass.
The 32-year-old, who was also convicted of fraud and drug-related offences, was sentenced to 28 months’ jail.
Here’s what we know about him:
HOW DID BROCHEZ LEAK THE INFORMATION?

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Brochez was the romantic partner of Ler Teck Siang, a male Singaporean doctor who was the former head of the National Public Health Unit at the Ministry of Health (MOH) between March 2012 and May 2013.
According to court documents, the couple started living together in Singapore in 2008. They got married in New York City on Apr 24, 2014.

As head of MOH's National Public Health Unit, Ler had authority to access information in the HIV Registry as required for his work, said MOH.
Ler, who resigned in January 2014, is believed to have mishandled the information and is suspected of not having complied with the policies and guidelines on the handling of such confidential information.


In May 2016, MOH lodged a police report after receiving information that Brochez was in possession of confidential information that appeared to be from the HIV Registry.

The couple's properties were searched and relevant material were seized by the police.
In May 2018, after Brochez had been deported from Singapore, MOH received information that he still had part of the records. While the information did not appear to have been made public, MOH lodged a police report and contacted the affected individuals to inform them.
On Jan 22 this year, MOH was notified by the police that Brochez may still have more information from the HIV Registry, and had leaked it online.
HOW DID BROCHEZ ENTER SINGAPORE?
Ler helped Brochez, who was HIV-positive, dupe the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) into issuing the American an employment pass.
On two separate occasions, Ler gave a sample of his own blood to be submitted so that Brochez could hide his HIV status.

The first instance was in March 2008 for a compulsory medical test required by the MOM for issuing the employment pass.
Brochez, who suspected he was HIV-positive, knew that he would not be granted an employment pass if MOM knew his medical status, court documents showed.
Ler suggested submitting his blood in Brochez's name to MOM in order to yield a negative result.
On the morning of Mar 13, Ler drew his own blood at home and stored it in a test tube.

Ler, who was a locum general practitioner at My Family Clinic at Commonwealth that day, brought the test tube to work with him.
When Brochez visited the clinic that evening for a blood test, Ler labelled the test tube with Brochez's particulars and submitted it for testing.
As a result, the test came back negative and MOM issued an employment pass to Brochez.

In October 2013, MOM received information that Brochez was HIV positive and directed him to cancel the personalised employment pass he had obtained in Feb 2011.
Brochez responded by saying that he had been falsely accused and told MOM he would supply "proof of being free of HIV".

To prevent the pass from being cancelled, the couple repeated the ruse they had used in 2008 at the clinic Ler was working at at that time.
As a result, MOM allowed him to retain his pass.

According to court documents, Brochez said he and Ler were in love and the only way for them to be together was to commit the offences due to the “discriminatory” laws.

He also claimed that he posed no public health risk as he had been taking antivirals since 2008.
WHAT ELSE DID HE FAKE?
When police raided Brochez' residence, they seized several certificates purportedly issued to him, said court documents.
This included a linguistics degree from Vanderbilt University, a Master’s degree in developmental and child psychology as well as a doctorate in psychology and education from University of Paris. A professional teaching certificate was also seized.

Investigations revealed that all the certificates were forged and that Borchez neither attended the institutions nor obtained the qualifications.
He had used the certificates to apply for jobs with educational institutions in Singapore.
Authorities also found a Bahamian passport with the name Malatesta da Farrera-Brochez in a safe.
Though the passport bore the same birth date and photograph of Brochez as shown in his US passport, police confirmed that it was a fake.
During his work in Singapore, Brochez received multiple awards and recognition for teaching excellence. He also published articles in scientific journals and books on child psychology.
Brochez has also represented Singapore at international conferences for academia and research.
In a 2010 interview with a local newspaper, Brochez claimed that he was enrolled in Princeton University at the age of 13. However, he transferred to Vanderbilt University in his first year because he felt the latter offered better linguistic courses.
In the interview, Brochez said he could converse in eight languages, including Hebrew and Spanish, saying that he was "a gifted child".
Brochez claimed he was a successful "laboratory rat" of his mother, a Dr Theresa King, who was purportedly a renowned professor of child and adolescent pscyhology in the UK.
"My mother is a really big influence in my life. I would not have made it without all her help and guidance," he had said in the interview.
However, according to online British daily The Independent, there was no psychologist with such qualifications under the name given by Brochez.
When The Independent contacted a UK-registered psychologist who qualified under the name given by Brochez, the news site was told that Brochez was not her son, and that she did not specialise in any of the relevant areas.

 

[laksaboy]

Mikhy the Gay:

 

[songsongjurong]

where is the list?

 

[mojito]

Mikhy the Gay:

I remember this guy from the time sinkies were getting outraged at FTs with fake degrees. How time flies! And we still getting screwed.

 

[AhMeng]

Pink Dot... Lol

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Mikhy the Gay:

And u have such a sicko teaching kids...no wonder the tolerance for faggots n their sick ways have increased amongst the younger generation. They are doing a better job with promoting faggot propaganda than the Pap n the wonders of pinky

 

[KuanTi01]

Who is on the list? How come no Wikileaks style exposure? I hope no member of the Royalee dynasty is on the list!

 

[AhMeng]

Can a Virgin get Aids?

 

[Cottonmouth]

MOH's cyber defence is as loose as Ginfreely's cheebye. Anyone with access can just download the whole list like that?

 

[Semaj2357]

wow - possibilities of ruined marriages, pre-nuptials, job losses, extortion, severed-relationships, disrupted families etc are on the cards.
those on the list are screwed twice, literally

 

[KuanTi01]

Give Dr Ler a medal for his anal sense of loyalty to his sex buddy. He did it all out of love!

 

[laksaboy]

Gan Kim Yong = Gan Kar Chng

 

[JohnTan]

Investigations revealed that all the certificates were forged and that Borchez neither attended the institutions nor obtained the qualifications.
He had used the certificates to apply for jobs with educational institutions in Singapore.
Authorities also found a Bahamian passport with the name Malatesta da Farrera-Brochez in a safe.
Though the passport bore the same birth date and photograph of Brochez as shown in his US passport, police confirmed that it was a fake.
During his work in Singapore, Brochez received multiple awards and recognition for teaching excellence. He also published articles in scientific journals and books on child psychology.
Brochez has also represented Singapore at international conferences for academia and research.

This Brochez has deceived Singapore tremendously. The ISD should send a special ops team to nab him and bring him back to stand trial. We should also claw back all the awards given to him and rescind all his published research work.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

This Brochez has deceived Singapore tremendously. The ISD should send a special ops team to nab him and bring him back to stand trial. We should also claw back all the awards given to him and rescind all his published research work.

The issue is how come so easy to decisive? N also how many have slip through the cracks? All employment pass holders need to be checked and their qualifications verified. All fraudulent ones will be charged, deported and CPF seized for use by Singkies for singkies

 

[Hypocrite-The]

This Brochez has deceived Singapore tremendously. The ISD should send a special ops team to nab him and bring him back to stand trial. We should also claw back all the awards given to him and rescind all his published research work.

Trump has sacked all illegals working for him. Singkies must do the same


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Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall
By Joshua Partlow, David A. Fahrenthold

January 26, 2019 at 3:17 PM


Margarita Cruz spent eight years as a housekeeper at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y. Last week, she was one of more than a dozen employees let go without warning. (Dalton Bennett, Jesse Mesner-Hage/The Washington Post)
OSSINING, N.Y —They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trump’s golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation.

Some were trusted enough to hold the keys to Eric Trump’s weekend home. They were experienced enough to know that, when Donald Trump ordered chicken wings, they were to serve him two orders on one plate.

But on Jan. 18, about a dozen employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned, one by one, to talk with a human resources executive from Trump headquarters.

During the meetings, they were fired because they are undocumented immigrants, according to interviews with the workers and their attorney. The fired workers are from Latin America.

The sudden firings — which were previously unreported — follow last year’s revelations of undocumented labor at a Trump club in New Jersey, where employees were subsequently dismissed. The firings show Trump’s business was relying on undocumented workers even as the president demanded a border wall to keep out such immigrants.

Trump’s demand for border wall funding led to the government shutdown that ended Friday after nearly 35 days.

In Westchester County, workers were told Trump’s company had just audited their immigration documents — the same ones they had submitted years earlier — and found them to be fake.

“Unfortunately, this means the club must end its employment relationship with you today,” the Trump executive said, according to a recording that one worker made of her firing.

“I started to cry,” said Gabriel Sedano, a former maintenance worker from Mexico who was among those fired. He had worked at the club since 2005. “I told them they needed to consider us. I had worked almost 15 years for them in this club, and I’d given the best of myself to this job.”

“I’d never done anything wrong, only work and work,” he added. “They said they didn't have any comments to make.”

“I started to cry,” said Gabriel Sedano, an immigrant from Mexico who was among those fired. He had worked at the club since 2005. “I told them they needed to consider us,” he said. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
Adela Garcia vacuums in 2016 before then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, in a speech at the golf course, vowed to keep jobs from undocumented immigrants. Garcia told The Post she was fired Jan. 18. (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
The firings at the New York golf club — which workers said eliminated about half of the club’s wintertime staff — follow a story in the New York Times last year that featured an undocumented worker at another Trump club in Bedminster, N.J. After that story, Trump’s company fired undocumented workers at the Bedminster club, according to former workers there.

President Trump still owns his businesses, which include 16 golf courses and 11 hotels around the world. He has given day-to-day control of the businesses to his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

In an emailed statement, Eric Trump said: “We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment. Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately.”

He added that it is one of the reasons “my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform. The system is broken.”

Eric Trump did not respond to specific questions about how many undocumented workers had been fired at other Trump properties and whether the company had, in the past, made similar audits of its employees’ immigration paperwork. He also did not answer whether executives had previously been aware that they employed undocumented workers.

Related: [Listen on Post Reports: Reporter David Fahrenthold on how time ran out for a dozen undocumented employees of the Trump organization ]

This Trump golf club does not appear in the government’s list of participants in the E-Verify system, which allows employers to confirm that their employees are in the country legally. Eric Trump did not answer a question about whether the club would join the system.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.

The firings highlight a stark tension between Trump’s public stance on immigration and the private conduct of Trump’s business.

In public, Trump has argued that undocumented immigrants have harmed American workers by driving down wages. That was part of why Trump demanded a border wall and contemplated declaring a national emergency to get it.

But, in Westchester County, Trump seems to have benefited from the same dynamic he denounces. His undocumented workers said they provided Trump with cheap labor. In return, they got steady work and few questions.

“They said absolutely nothing. They never said, ‘Your Social Security number is bad’ or ‘Something is wrong,’ ” said Margarita Cruz, a housekeeping employee from Mexico who was fired after eight years at the club. “Nothing. Nothing. Until right now.”

Adela Garcia and Margarita Cruz Carreon, who were fired on Jan. 18, talk with their attorney Anibal Romero. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
An employee-of-the-month award given to one of the undocumented immigrants who worked at the golf course. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
An employee who was fired holds 14 years of pay stubs from his time working in landscaping at the course. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
In June 2016, Trump gave a campaign speech at the Westchester club and recounted how he had hugged mothers and fathers whose children had been murdered by illegal immigrants.

“On immigration policy, ‘America First’ means protecting the jobs, wages and security of American workers, whether first or 10th generation,” Trump said in his speech. “No matter who you are, we’re going to protect your job because, let me tell you, our jobs are being stripped from our country like we’re babies.”

To document the firings at the golf club, The Washington Post spoke with 16 current and former workers at the club — which sits among ritzy homes in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., 27 miles north of Manhattan. Post reporters met with former employees for hours of interviews in a cramped apartment in Ossining, N.Y., a hardscrabble town next door, whose chief landmark is the Sing Sing state prison.

Among those workers, six said they had been fired on Jan. 18. They and their attorney confirmed the other terminations.

Another worker said he was still employed at the club at the time of the purge despite the fact that his papers were fake. His reprieve did not last long, however. His attorney later said he was fired that night.

The workers brought pay stubs and employee awards and uniforms to back up their claims. They said they were going public because they felt discarded: After working so long for Trump’s company, they said they were fired with no warning and no severance.

“Keep us in mind,” Cruz said, addressing Trump and the country.

The interviews were organized by an attorney, Anibal Romero, who is also representing undocumented workers from Trump’s club in Bedminster.

The Trump Organization has shown “a pattern and practice of hiring undocumented immigrants, not only in New Jersey, but also in New York,” Romero said. “We are demanding a full and thorough investigation from federal authorities.”

The workers were largely from Mexico, with a few from other countries. Most said they crossed the United States’ southern border on foot and purchased fake immigration documents later. Many bought theirs in Queens.

They said Trump Organization bosses did not seem to scrutinize these documents closely when they were hired.

In June 2016, Trump gave a campaign speech at the club in which he said he had hugged mothers and fathers whose children had been murdered by illegal immigrants. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
Uniforms that were worn by a worker who was fired. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
Edmundo Morocho, an Ecuadoran maintenance worker, said he was hired around 2000 with a green card and Social Security card that he said he purchased in Queens for about $50. The green card he showed The Washington Post says it expired in 2002, but a decade passed before the Trump club told him that he needed to replace it, he said.

Morocho bought a new card, he said. It had a different birth date than the first one, but he said the Trump club didn’t raise questions. The Post viewed both cards. It was unclear if they were forged or stolen.

“The accountant took copies and said, ‘Okay, it’s fine,’ ” Morocho recalled. “He didn’t say anything more.” Eric Trump did not respond to a question asking about the club’s process for reviewing employees’ immigration documents.

Another employee — Jesus Lira, a banquet chef from Mexico — said that, on two occasions in 2008, an accountant at the Trump club rejected his fake documents and told him to go obtain better ones.

“She said, ‘I can’t accept this, go back and tell them to do a better job,’ ” Lira recalled. He said he returned to Queens a third time and found documents that the club accepted. Eric Trump did not respond to a question about Lira’s account.

The Post spoke to two former managers from the club about the employees’ accounts. One former manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the club’s internal practices, said the club relied on its accounting department to scrutinize the immigration documents and that the department rejected about 20 percent of applicants because of immigration questions.

The other former manager said the broader Trump Organization placed far more emphasis on finding cheap labor than it placed on rooting out undocumented workers. The former manager characterized the attitude at the club as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

“It didn’t matter. They didn’t care [about immigration status],” said the former manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve ties with current Trump executives. “It was, ‘Get the cheapest labor possible.’ ” The former manager said the assumption at the club was that immigration authorities were not likely to target golf clubs for mass raids.

Edmundo Morocho in the uniform he wore as an employee for Trump National Golf Course. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
At the club, undocumented workers said they resented the unspoken understanding that they would never be promoted to management. But many had fond memories of interactions with Trump family members, who visited the club for parties and weekends.

Sedano, the maintenance worker from Mexico, said he had a set of keys for a home that Eric Trump used at the course, because Sedano was responsible for taking out the trash there and making repairs.

Sedano recalled cleaning the railings one day at the club’s main entrance when Donald Trump approached him.

“He asked me how long I had worked there. At that time, it had been about five years,” Sedano recalled.

Trump noticed Sedano’s wedding ring. He handed Sedano $200.

“He said, ‘Take your wife out to dinner,’ ” Sedano said. “I’ll never forget that.”

Alejandro Juarez, a native of Mexico who had worked as a server and food runner at the club since 2007, said Eric Trump greeted him by name at a party in December.

“I was serving hors d’oeuvres,” Juarez recalled, “and he told me, ‘Thanks, Alejandro. Thanks for everything, okay?’ ”

Margarita Cruz recorded the meeting in which the Trump Organization fired her. (The Washington Post/)
The firings began about 10 a.m.

Cruz, the fired housekeeper, knew what was coming before she went in, because she’d heard from other workers who’d already been fired. She felt like the workers were sitting there “like little lambs, lined up for the slaughterhouse.” She hit the “record” button on her phone before her firing began.

Deirdre Rosen — an executive who identified herself as the head of human resources for the Trump Organization — began by reading from papers in front of her, Cruz said. An interpreter, listening in on speakerphone, translated her words into Spanish.

He translated Rosen’s statement that, after a Trump Organization audit, the paperwork Cruz submitted in 2011 “does not appear to be genuine.”

Then he translated Rosen’s question: “Are you currently authorized for employment in the United States?”

“Um, no,” Cruz replied.

“No,” the man on the phone translated.

Rosen continued: “By law, the club cannot continue to employ an individual knowing that the individual is, or has become, unauthorized for employment,” Rosen told her. “Unfortunately, this means the club must end its employment relationship with you today.”

Cruz told them she was a single mother with two children and asked why she had not been given some warning, so she could look for another job.

“The law says as soon as we know that you do not have authorization that we cannot continue your employment. That’s why,” Rosen said. As Cruz left, Rosen said, “Have a great day.”

Rosen could not be reached for comment.

Afterward, Cruz said she felt that — from one instant to the next — the Trump Organization had sought to transform her from an employee to a nonentity.

“We’re just working. How can they take our taxes, charge us for this or that, and not give us any rights?” Cruz said. “When they take our taxes, we count as people. Why don’t we count in other things?”

She said, “We don’t exist.”

“When they take our taxes, we count as people. Why don’t we count in other things?” Cruz said about treatment by Trump’s company. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
Alice Crites, Tom Hamburger and Philip Bump contributed to this report.

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Joshua Partlow is The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Mexico. He has served previously as the bureau chief in Kabul and as a correspondent in Brazil and Iraq.

David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police.


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