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Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump University lawsuits
AP via Portland Press Herald ^ | Nov. 18, 2016 | DAVID KLEPPER and ELLIOT SPAGAT

Posted on 11/19/2016 1:22:35 AM PST by GonzoII

The settlement includes restitution for students and $1 million in penalties to the state but does not require Trump to acknowledge wrongdoing.

SAN DIEGO — President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University, his former school for real estate investors.

The deal announced Friday by New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would settle a lawsuit he filed three years ago, plus two class-action lawsuits in California filed on behalf of former Trump University students.

(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; trump; trumptransition; trumpu
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Good move IMHO, don't need this dogging him around..
1 posted on 11/19/2016 1:22:35 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

I think he makes that just in interest a day doesn’t he?


2 posted on 11/19/2016 1:29:15 AM PST by Az Joe (11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
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To: Az Joe

I don’t know but he can certainly handle it...


3 posted on 11/19/2016 1:30:30 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Exactly. Smart move. He needs and wants to be able to focus on being president of the US to “make America great again”.

The MSM and the Dems would like to sink him if they could.


4 posted on 11/19/2016 1:36:40 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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MSM will probably ‘harp’ on this for a few days. Just sayin.


5 posted on 11/19/2016 1:45:17 AM PST by duckman
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To: GonzoII

$10,000,000 for the lawyers..$1850 each for the plaintiffs.


6 posted on 11/19/2016 1:48:21 AM PST by RonnG
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To: GonzoII

Presidet Trump is clearing the decks of his battle ship.

The Trump ship of state is leaving port on 20th January, 2017.

Fully provisioned with ordnance and victuals, commanded by the very best.

We must stay ashore as part of the signals corps, but the battle will be joined, and we will emerge victorious!

God bless the United States of America.


7 posted on 11/19/2016 1:53:08 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Az Joe

I know a number of college graduates who paid far more in tuition who are currently waiting tables, driving cabs, and living with their parents. Maybe this will set a new trend of suing the colleges in class action lawsuits. I hope it does.

I myself have three relatives, college graduates of four year state schools, in that boat. One, a History major, is waiting tables at Olive Garden, another, a Psychology major, is a nurse’s assistant emptying bed pans, another, a Poly-Sci major, is unemployed, and all three ( ages 25-30) are living with their parents and voted for Hillary.

If Trump University can held accountable for failing to properly educate its students for the real world, why not the state colleges and universities?


8 posted on 11/19/2016 2:27:38 AM PST by RonnG
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The judge had external interests and should have recused himself.

He certainly can not look forward to advanced appointments on the bench - maybe he should switch careers.

9 posted on 11/19/2016 2:29:12 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Candor7

Hear! Hear!
Reporting for duty!


10 posted on 11/19/2016 3:36:14 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: RonnG

Their plight is not the fault of the university.

They spent four years pursuing an effectively worthless degree, instead of learning a marketable skill that is in demand.


11 posted on 11/19/2016 3:41:41 AM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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To: GonzoII

Part of the deal is they can never speak of it. They all gave glowing ratings..


12 posted on 11/19/2016 4:16:51 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: GonzoII

Did they think they were attending Harvard?


13 posted on 11/19/2016 4:27:50 AM PST by FES0844 (Gv)
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MSM will probably ‘harp’ on this for a few days. Just sayin.

Sure they will. Watch for tape of Trump saying "I'll never settle...I'm going to reopen Trump University" and all the rest. But despite all that settling was the wisest course. It gets him behind and allows him to get on with the transition.

14 posted on 11/19/2016 4:34:17 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: RonnG

If Trump University can held accountable for failing to properly educate its students for the real world, why not the state colleges and universities?

There a doctrine in law called “ contributory negligence” wherein the plaintiff is guilty of creating their own situation and precluded from recovery.

Not to be overly critical but even in the 1960’s when I was in school, Socialogy and Poli-Sci majors were objects of cackling derision.


15 posted on 11/19/2016 4:55:15 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: DoodleDawg

Best part: It’ll now be open season on every so-called institution of higher learning in the country. Sic ‘em, snowflakes!


16 posted on 11/19/2016 4:59:11 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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Snowflakes: some of your alma maters have billions in endowments. Yours, and your lawyers, for the taking....

CHARGE!!!!!


17 posted on 11/19/2016 5:02:40 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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Lefties, you are soooo gonna rue going after Trump U....


18 posted on 11/19/2016 5:03:36 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Innovative

When I hear the MSM, all I hear is “Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah , , , now, back to you,
Jennifer . . “


19 posted on 11/19/2016 5:06:27 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

Know what I heard this time: ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching....


20 posted on 11/19/2016 5:17:19 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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