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In mid-August 2015, a number of web sites reproduced a story about business magnate (and 2016 Republican presidential hopeful) Donald Trump's having responded to the pleas of the parents of a critically ill 3-year-old Jewish boy, using his private jet to ferry the child from Los Angeles to New York for medical treatment after commercial airlines declined to carry the boy: The story was factual, although many websites that reproduced versions of it in August 2015 did not provide the timeline behind it, leaving readers with the impression that it related a recent occurrence. However, those accounts described an event that took place 27 years earlier and were all based on an archived article published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency back on 20 July 1988: It isn't quite true, though, to say that Trump hasn't used the story to boost his public image. Although (as far as we know) Trump himself hadn't yet brought it up during the 2016 presidential campaign cycle, he touted it as one of his accomplishments in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, which he put out as he was flirting with seeking the presidential nomination of the Reform Party: This is also a story Donald Trump might now want to distance himself from because in 2014 the sick boy's father, Harold Ten, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of taking part in a scheme that allowed a ring of brokers, investment advisers and their clients to profit from the deaths of terminally ill patients:
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