WTF?!? TRUMP UNIVERSITY HAS A 98% APPROVAL RATING. SO WHY IS NY AG SCHNEIDERMAN GOING AFTER THEM?

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TRUMP UNIVERSITY HAS A 98% APPROVAL RATING. SO WHY IS NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN WASTING MILLIONS IN TAXPAYER MONEY GOING AFTER THEM?

http://www.98percentapproval.com/ABOUT.html

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

This website was created to bring to the public's attention the gross incompetence of New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. Despite letting the fat cats of Wall Street slip away without a single conviction following the worst financial collapse in this nation's history – leaving more than 20% of all homes in New York still underwater -- in the last year, Eric Schneiderman has instructed his office of more than 650 attorneys to instead focus their attention -- and significant taxpayer resources -- on far more mundane matters such as preventing the merger of two online food ordering services, cracking down on the owner of a Brooklyn tortilla factory for workers’ compensation violations and prosecuting a Suffolk car wash owner for not properly distributing tips to workers, all in an effort to pursue his own personal political agenda in advance of the next election.

In the case of Trump University, the situation is even more disturbing. While Schneiderman’s investigation into Trump University first arose out of a larger inquiry into for-profit schools that accepted federal funding, his office quickly learned that neither Trump University nor its students had ever received any form of federal funding, subsidies or other government aid and offered all of its students a 3 day money back guarantee if they were not completely satisfied. Despite learning these facts, for the last two years, Schneiderman’s office has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars conducting a no holds barred, scorched earth investigation, assigning as many as ten of his staff members to interview former Trump University employees and review literally hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Making matters worse, Schneiderman chose to devote such valuable taxpayer dollars to looking into Trump University even though there was already a class action lawsuit pending in California brought by the firm of disgraced former lawyers and convicted felons Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss.

And what did Schneiderman’s office find after wasting so much of the taxpayers’ hard earned money? Exactly what Trump University told the Attorney General on day one – that as much as 98% of those students who participated in Trump University programs were not only satisfied with their Trump University experience, but would recommend the program to a friend.

"The training was excellent, best real estate training I have attended.” – BK

“Thank you for a great, informative, energizing, helpful, practical & fun seminar.” – JT

“This opened my eyes to real estate opportunities.” – KV

“Great presentation!” –WC “Excellent information. Thank you all!” – VP

“This seminar really opened my eyes. Thank you so much, you are truly excellent!” – II

“I am never disappointed when I come to a Trump seminar.” – PM

“I learned more than expected. The staff were all powerful and outstanding. What a great team to be a part of!” – JL

“Well presented. Well organized. Excellent teachers.” - CC​

These are just a few of the comments by the more than 10,000 former Trump University students who filled out surveys sharing their experiences. 98% approval. That’s a better approval rating than even Harvard. Let’s be real: if this weren’t Trump, there would be no investigation!

However, this is not the first time Eric Schneiderman has used his stature as Attorney General for his own political gain or to attack critics of President Obama. Indeed, one recent New York Post article entitled, “Democratic Hit Man”, rightfully pointed out that while Schneiderman, elected with a paper thin resume, “seems to spare no expense in attacking critics of President Obama but hasn’t lifted an investigative finger when it comes to the sleaze involving fat cats in his own party.” According to the article, the backlash against Schneiderman’s one-sided tactics has gotten so bad that “the ‘investigate Schneiderman’ movement is gaining traction among congressional Republicans, particularly in the House Financial Services Committee.”

Just as significant, the calls for an investigation into Schneiderman’s tactics arose even before it was revealed that former State Senator Shirley Huntley had provided information to the FBI that Schneiderman was engaging in corruption and other illicit dealings. Given all of this, together with the fact that Schneiderman has accepted political contributions from the same lawyers suing Trump University in California, is there any doubt that with a 98% approval rating from its students and a 3 day money back guarantee, that Schneiderman’s investigation into Trump University is nothing more than a politically motivated witch hunt?


But don’t just take our word for it, see for yourself. Unlike reading a newspaper article, here you can find all of the evidence to substantiate the facts: more than 10,000 handwritten surveys filled out by former Trump University showing a 98% approval rating, video of former Trump University students, including Tarla Makaeff, who despite stating on video that “I thought today was great. All of the speakers were really good”, is now the named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit in California demanding a refund, and news articles documenting Eric Schneiderman’s abuse and misuse of the New York Attorney General’s Office for his own political gain.

You have heard the allegations, now see the facts, see the evidence and make your own judgment about how your hard earned tax dollars are being wasted.


Links at the site have the following:

- PDF Files: The following files contain over 10,000 surveys from Trump University students demonstrating their overwhelming satisfaction with the program.


- Videos: Former student Tarla Makaeff is suing Trump University claiming that she didn't receive her money's worth. But that's not what she said in 2008 when she was taking classes at Trump University. Watch this video to see how much she loved the program.


Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst: Schneiderman suit "a very weak case".

- Articles - 11 Articles from 2013 giving actual information including info about the corrupt Schneideman' "shakedown racket" and using political motivations to attack those he doesn't like

Law 360 - December 3, 2013 TRUMP SAYS NY AG'S STUDENT FRAUD SUIT BROUGHT TOO LATE

New York Post - December 2, 2013 TRUMP FIRES BACK AT AG SCHNEIDERMAN

New York Post - November 22, 2013 ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN'S SHAKEDOWN RACKET

The American Spectator - November 5, 2013 SHAKEDOWN SCHNEIDERMAN

The American Spectator - August 29, 2013 IS ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN A CROOK?

New York Post - August 15, 2013 AG'S HISTORY WITH "KICKBACK" HONCHO

New York Post - May 10th, 2013 STATE SENATOR BOMBSHELL: ATTORNEY GENERAL DIRTY TOO

Politicker - June 22, 2013 HUNTLEY ACCUSES SCHNEIDERMAN INVESTIGATION AS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED

New York Post - June 23, 2013 DEMOCRATIC HIT MAN, RISING GRIPES ON SCHNEIDERMAN

Queens Tribune - June 27, 2013 HUNTLEY CALLS OUT SCHNEIDERMAN AND SMITH

New York Times - August 13, 2013 Suit Accuses Online Lender of Violating NY Rate Caps.pdf
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Comments from FR where I found the above article:

I read that the Repubs in Albany have started a recall of this attorney gen who started the Trump investigation, not because of the Trump investigation in particular, but because he goes full throttle on any critic of Obama. Oh my gosh, Trump sure falls into that category.


Everyone realizes there are only 5 students in this class action lawsuit...and the Top complainer (Tara Makaeff) has now opted out.

Might be because Tara made a video praising the seminars. That "Swear to God" might have frightened her.

And one long one that is excellent:

Trump real estate seminars were offered as Trump University between 2004 and 2009. In 2010 they were offered as Trump Entrepreneur Institute. The business stopped in June of 2010. The effort had 5,000 students over 7 calendar years. New York court papers say the effort grossed $40 million over the seven years.

I’m not going to deal with the deep details of the cases in California - they are sour grapes or buyers remorse cases for money damages. When they call them Class Actions lets be sure everyone knows what that means. Attorneys who specialize in class actions create a group of defendants whose damages are too small to be worth it, try to enlist a group of defendants, none of whom manage the litigation, to try and create a big legal bill for profit by addressing the supposed harms suffered by the group. Two such efforts were started in California. There can not be that many of the 5,000 from California when you take out all the NY FL TX IL MA seminar takers.

Personal note: one time a San Diego atty with no nexus to me whatsoever did this to me. He filed one case, assumed there must be other parties similarly situated and asked a judge to create the opportunity for him to go establish there were others and have me pay for it. We stopped that but that’s how it works.

The Trump seminars had questionaires filled out by the attendees presumably so they could improve the program. Good thing they did as now those are evidence of what they did and what the attendees thought of it. Go here:

http://www.98percentapproval.com/

There you can read the questionnaire results. 4900 of the folks absolutely agreed they got what they expected. So we have 100 people, that needed to be herded up by class action lawyers. Two percent of $40mm is $800k. Decremented by those of the 100 people that are from California. Thats what we are talking about. Surely Trump will spend far in excess of that just to clear his name in California. If you get a letter in the mail form a Class Action lawyer saying you should join our class as we try to extract money damages from Donald J. Trump without having to do anything or spend a cent, many would say I’m in. On to New York.

Our protagonist there is the loathesome atty. gen. Eric Schneiderman - he’s the dolt thats trying to wreck Fan Duel and Draft Kings. Go here to find out about this modern Elliott Spitzer

http://observer.com/2014/02/the-politics-and-power-of-a-g-schneiderman/ and his publicity hound cases.

Newly elected Shneiderman brought an action against Trump Entrepreneur in May of 2011, a year after it closed only four months after he was elected.
read about him shaking down the Trumps and Trump employees for political contributions behind the scenes of his case here:

http://observer.com/2014/10/time-runs-out-on-attorney-generals-fraud-suit/

As the case is poised today, the only New York matters not already dismissed by the court is the use of the name Trump University. There are 121 seminar takers left that paid an aggregate $105,000 - $867.77 each - not all form New York. The harm to these people ? That they were mislead into believing that Trump University, a three day real estate seminar might have been an actual University. No one could sit on 60 Minutes and claim they thought they were attending Harvard or Columbia. It’s ridiculous. Which leaves the California cases.

On to the politics of the matter: Many of these seminar attendees were smart enough to understand the opportunity that distressed real estate presented @ 2007 and afterwards. The overwhelming majority did three days and stopped. Those that went deeper into the training paid for it of their own volition. A few, many years later at the behest of a publicity hound Atty. Gen. that said over and over again it is a ‘weak case’ or upon receiving a letter in the mail from a class action lawyer are now crying foul. The truth of the matter is they paid for the deeper seminars and ended up for whatever reason not being able to utilize the knowledge and at least six years later (if not much longer) are crying foul. If they took a free seminar, then a paid one, then another paid one and then another at what point do they move from guileless consumers to prospective wannabe business people that paid for a service and didn’t capitalize on it?

CW and NR and the Cruznadians and the Rubiots and the WSJ tell us what great Conservatives and Free Market people they are. Now they are propagating this smear. If Trump had done something wrong, had something to hide, wouldn’t he have settled this for far less than the legal bills to fight it out? Keep in mind Trump bought Doral out of the bankruptcy court for $150 mm. The DC post office renovations alone are $200 mm. Wouldn’t great conservatives applaud an American that fought the NY atty gen and the class action lawyers? Wouldn’t real free market people put an ear to the ground and learn how hard business is now in the country?[/QUOTE]
 

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They are throwing every single thing they can at Trump now. I don't have the time to read everything or even listen to rallies or interviews lately - just too much stuff I have to do in my "real" life. I just hope that people in the US are not falling for the lies!
 
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