BOSTON (MA)
The Patriot Ledger
September 6, 2018
By Neal Simpson
A Whitman man is speaking out for the first time about the years of sexual abuse he says he endured as a child at the hands of a man who is now a celebrity real estate guru and author of a Trump University book.
Finlay S. Walsh, now 43, called a press conference Thursday morning to describe how David Lindahl, the owner of a Rockland-based real estate education company, abused him for years as a child and left him with a lifetime of trauma.
Walsh’s attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, said Lindahl served only 10 months of a 10-year sentence for the abuse and just last year paid Walsh $812,000 as part of a settlement agreement.
“I don’t think anybody can heal what I’ve gone through, but I want the truth to come out,” Walsh told reporters as he stood beside Garabedian, who is best known for representing victims of clergy sexual abuse.
Lindahl’s attorney, James Budreau, declined to comment Thursday. Calls to Lindahl’s real estate education company, RE Mentor, were not returned.
Lindahl started RE Mentor, which is hosting a three-day networking event in Boston starting today, in 2002 and claims on its website to have bought and sold more than 8,200 real estate units, calling himself “North America’s Leading Authority on Entrepreneurial Success.”
In addition to NBC, CBS, Fox News and ABC, he has written three books on real estate and says that now-President Donald Trump personally asked him to co-author a book for Trump University, a now-defunct for-profit education company.
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