Gonna suck having two highly public federal trials back to back, one for racketeering, the other a class action consumer fraud.
How can you film a commercial saying you hand picked people, then get sued for not hand picking them, and call it "puffery". He blatantly lied to get money from people
It takes a HUGE amount of evidence to get class action status and for RICO charges to goto trial.
Make America great again for criminals?
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Just hours after Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, a federal judge in San Diego said he plans to allow former students who claim to have been cheated by Trump University to take the billionaire candidate to trial...
The racketeering case was filed in 2013 after Curiel had denied a request to add the RICO claim to the earlier consumer-fraud lawsuit against Trump and his school. That case also accuses Trump University of elder abuse because many of the alleged victims were senior citizens.
The racketeering lawsuit alleges that Trump University was part of a four-year scheme by Trump to make tens of millions of dollars by falsely telling prospective students that they would be taught his real estate secrets by handpicked instructors at an “elite” university equivalent to Wharton Business School, where he graduated in 1968.
Trump University sales pitches touting “secrets” and “handpicked instructors,” his lawyers contend, are mere “puffery” common to advertising that can’t be used to argue there was fraud. In addition, Trump believed the students were receiving a high-quality education and there’s no evidence he intended to defraud them, they said.
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