Posted on 01/30/2016 6:28:10 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Donald Trump moved closer to a jury trial over allegations he misled Trump University students with promises that seminars as good as the Wharton business school would be taught by his "handpicked" instructors.
Trump, 69, and the school on Wednesday lost a bid to throw out the claims by senior citizens and other disappointed students ahead of trial. The billionaire and his business, which stopped enrolling students in 2010 and changed its name to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, convinced U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego there was no need for a court order barring further misrepresentations about the seminars.
A pretrial hearing is set for January in the five-year-old lawsuit as the real estate tycoon pursues the Republican nomination for president.
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Trump called the New York attorney general "incompetent" and a "lightweight." The suit is pending. Other consumer cases were filed in Florida and California.
"If you go to Wharton or Harvard, they didn't have a 98% approval rating," Trump, who graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, told CNN after Schneiderman's lawsuit was filed. "People loved the school. The school was terrific."
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These other colleges are actually staffed by professional instructors qualified via academic degrees in the subject matter being taught. Trump's diploma mill was taught by self-help gurus with no relevant academic credentials and where a record existed, a history of failure in the endeavor (real estate investing) being taught.
“These other colleges are actually staffed by professional instructors qualified via academic degrees in the subject matter being taught. “
You’re right, that’s worse. There’s a reasonable expectation the nondischargable loans they push will lead to a job.
After all only an idiot would fall for some seminar “taught by self-help gurus with no relevant academic credentials”. I guess it’s a good thing the debt is dischargeable.
http://time.com/money/4010695/trump-university-scam-donald-trump/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/trump-sued-for-running-scam-university.html
This story is sooooooo last year. LOL.
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