Trump personal driver of over 25 years drops overtime lawsuit
President Trump’s longtime personal driver dropped a lawsuit against his former boss over alleged unpaid overtime, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Noel Cintron voluntarily withdrew his complaint against the Trump Organization, according to a court filing in federal court in Manhattan, Bloomberg reported. The filing did not specify whether the lawsuit was settled out of court.
{mosads}Cintron, who worked as a driver for Trump for more than two decades, claimed in a lawsuit filed in July that he was forced to work “thousands” of hours in overtime and was not given a “meaningful raise” in more than 10 years.
In the lawsuit, Cintron claimed he worked 550 hours of overtime every year and was not paid time-and-a-half. He also claimed he was not paid for work on holidays and vacations, and that he did not receive accurate wage statements.
Cintron sued for 3,300 overtime hours, just those during the past six years, due to the statute of limitations. He sought $200,000 in damages through the lawsuit.
Bloomberg reported that the Trump Organization claimed after Cintron filed the lawsuit that the driver was paid “generously and in accordance with the law.”
Trump has repeatedly touted that he refuses to settle lawsuits, though he agreed last year to a $25 million settlement as part of a class action fraud suit against the now-defunct Trump University.
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