Dive Summary:
- New York's attorney general is suing Donald Trump for $40 million, saying he helped run a phony "Trump University" that put students in expensive and mostly useless seminars and failed to deliver on apprenticeships.
- The attorney general says many of the 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 thought they would meet Trump but instead got their photo with a life-size cut-out of him.
- Trump's attorney said Trump University had provided the state with thousands of testimonials from students and said 98% of students termed the program "excellent"; he says the suit is politically motivated.
From the article:
... State Education Department officials had told Trump to change the name of his enterprise years ago, saying it lacked a license and didn't meet the legal definitions of a university. In 2011 it was renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Institute, but it has been dogged since by complaints from consumers and a few isolated civil lawsuits claiming it didn't fulfill its advertised claims. ...