A New York judge ruled on April 26 that the state’s $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University will to go to trial.
The judge heard the procedural arguments in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s ongoing lawsuit against the presidential hopeful and his former school for real estate investors.
The lawyers also discussed whether the trial should be decided by a jury or a judge—no decision has been made. No date has been set for the trial.
The attorney general filed the lawsuit in 2013, accusing the real-estate mogul of using bait-and-switch tactics to get students to pay for classes with Trump’s “handpicked” experts that were not up to standards. The attorney general’s office said its investigation found that Trump did not handpick a single instructor for the seminars and had little or no participation in developing any of the school’s curricula or seminar content.
“More than 5,000 people across the country who paid Donald Trump $40 million to teach them his hard sell tactics got a hard lesson in bait-and-switch,” said Attorney General Schneiderman in 2013.
