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pnwmom

(108,978 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:46 PM Apr 2016

N.Y. attorney general's Trump University suit going to trial

Source: USA Today

Judge Cynthia Kern made the decision to allow the case to proceed Tuesday.

“I am very pleased the judge has indicated her intention to move as expeditiously as possible to trial, as thousands of Mr. Trump’s alleged victims have been waiting years for relief from his fraud,” Schneiderman said in a prepared statement Tuesday. “We believe that Mr. Trump and (university president Michael Sexton) will be essential witnesses at trial. As we will prove in court, Donald Trump and his sham for-profit college defrauded thousands of students out of millions of dollars.”

Schneiderman wants Trump and the organization to pay back the 5,000 students nationwide as much as $35,000 each they invested to “participate in live seminars and mentorship programs with the promise of learning Donald Trump’s real estate investing techniques.”

The AG says the university deceived students into thinking the school was a legally charted “university.” In 2010, after cease and deist letters from New York, the organization changed its name to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative and later in the year ceased its operations.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/04/26/ny-attorney-generals-trump-university-suit-going-trial/83560048/



The article doesn't say when the trial may occur, but Trump is sure to ask for delays.

There is another class action lawsuit in CA, but I don't know what the status of that is.
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N.Y. attorney general's Trump University suit going to trial (Original Post) pnwmom Apr 2016 OP
I heard July or August for the trial. stopbush Apr 2016 #1
NO, no, no the trial has to be AFTER the convention, but before the election Brother Buzz Apr 2016 #3
A fine upstanding man like Donald Trump. Just unbelievable. olddad56 Apr 2016 #2

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
1. I heard July or August for the trial.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:23 PM
Apr 2016

Funny how the media has completely ignored this case while amping up the ridiculous idea that Clinton will be indicted in the e-mail non-scandal.

Brother Buzz

(36,432 posts)
3. NO, no, no the trial has to be AFTER the convention, but before the election
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:49 PM
Apr 2016

I'm liking October a whole bunch.

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