| Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Legal Lawsuit accuses Trump family of peddling phony get-rich schemes 
 
 A new lawsuit filed in federal court Monday accuses President Donald Trump and his children of convincing consumers to invest in get-rich-quick schemes, while also accepting “large, secret payments” from the companies they were pitching.
– President Trump, his three eldest children, and the Trump Organization defrauded thousands of consumers by persuading them to invest in phony get-rich-quick schemes, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Monday, accuses Trump and children Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka of failing to disclose that they were accepting "large, secret payments" from the entities they were promoting as legitimate business opportunities, the New York Times reports. The four plaintiffs say they invested in telecommunications firm ACN after watching Trump's promotional videos. They say Trump made false claims about the company's chances of success while quietly accepting millions of dollars from it. "This case is about four working-class Americans, and thousands more just like them, who were deliberately defrauded by Donald J. Trump, his family, and the corporation that bears their name," states the lawsuit. The suit accuses the Trumps of leveraging the family brand to make a "series of false and misleading statements and omissions to ensnare vulnerable consumers." The plaintiffs include a hospice caregiver named as "Jane Doe," who says she paid $499 to register with ACN and thousands more to attend company events, but only earned $38 in two years, Politico reports. The lawsuit is being funded by the Tesseract Research Center, whose chairman is Democratic donor Morris Pearl. (Trump paid $25 million to settle Trump University lawsuits.)