Tuesday, 26 April 2016

JUDGE RULES TRUMP UNIVERSITY FRAUD CASE WILL GO TO TRIAL

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    Judge rules Trump University fraud case will go to trial

         
     
     
     
     
     

     
     

    A New York judge ruled Tuesday that a fraud lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general against Donald Trump and his real estate school will go to trial, setting up a potentially unprecedented situation that could feature the Republican presidential front-runner taking the stand.

    Justice Cynthia Kern on Tuesday denied the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s request that she rule on the case now, paving the way for a trial over allegations by the attorney general that Trump University fraudulently bilked students out of a collective $40 million. Trump is a defendant in the case.
     
    Jeffrey Goldman, a lawyer for Trump, told Justice Kern they would demand a jury trial, not one decided by a judge. After the hearing at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Goldman said the trial could come as early as this fall.
    Such a move could thrust Trump into the courtroom in the middle of a contentious presidential election.
    Schneiderman, a Democrat, filed a civil lawsuit against the now-defunct Trump University in 2013 alleging that it exploited Trump’s celebrity status to persuade people to enroll in expensive courses that failed to deliver on their promises. Trump University defrauded more than 5,000 students in New York out of thousands of dollars each, according to the complaint, by billing itself as a real estate school and charging students as much as $35,000 without having proper licensing.
     
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