The latest controversy involving the Trump family has caught a Connecticut-based financial advisor right in the middle.
A long, extensively reported story in the Washington Post recounts the experiences and travails of an undocumented worker, Juan Quintero. Quintero contends he had been let go after 18 years employment as a groundskeeper at the Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Hopewell Junction, N.Y and from his work at a hunting preserve owned by the brothers Trump. The Trump family allegedly cleaned house, so to speak, of all undocumented workers in their employment in the wake of revelations the family's businesses have relied on their labor for years.
The hunting preserve where Quintero worked is called the Leather Hill Preserve, a 171-acre tract of land in upstate New York about 100 miles north of New York City. According to the report, it is co-owned by the financial advisor, Jeffrey Ferraro, a senior relationship manager for TD Wealth (a part of TD Bank). Ferraro had previously been mentioned in relation to the Leather Hill Preserve in a Daily Mail story published in February 2018, which reported on neighbors complaints of shooting-related noise. In that story, he was identified as being “the company’s organizer and in sales records as a representative for the LLC." It's not clear whether Ferraro, as a representative or co-owner of the preserve, knew of Quintero's immigration status.
Ferraro has not responded to a voicemail left at his number, publicly listed on his “personal web page.”
