Noel Cintron was Trump’s personal chauffeur for 25 years. He’s suing for unpaid wages, calling his ex-boss ‘callous’
‘Trump is purportedly a billionaire, but he has not given his personal driver a meaningful raise in over 12 years’
US President Donald Trump’s former personal chauffeur on Monday sued the Trump Organisation for years of unpaid overtime, claiming he was exploited and denied a meaningful raise for more than a decade.
It is the latest of many lawsuits against Trump or his businesses.
Noel Cintron, who served as driver for Trump, his family and businesses for more than 25 years, was replaced by the Secret Service when his boss won the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He then joined the security staff.
In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has … exploited and denied significant wages
The New York lawsuit, dated Monday, is seeking to recover more than 3,000 hours in overtime, penalties, damages and lawyers’ fees for the “harm” Cintron suffered while on the Trump company payroll.
“In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has, through the defendant entities, exploited and denied significant wages to his own longstanding personal driver,” the 14-page lawsuit states.
While Trump is “purportedly a billionaire, he has not given his personal driver a meaningful raise in over 12 years!” it alleged.
The Trump Organisation, the umbrella company which is being run by the president’s adult sons Donald Jnr and Eric while their father is in office, said Cintron was “at all times paid generously and in accordance with the law.