Greg Abbott's Office Chased Trump University Out of Texas, Emails Show

[douglas9]

The Texas Attorney General's Office ran Trump University out of the state in 2010, according to emails that surfaced as part of USA Today story on the controversial get-rich-quick seminars.

The emails were dug up by Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and show that then-AG Greg Abbott's office opened a deceptive trade practices investigation of the seminars, which cost thousands and purported to teach real estate newbies "everything they need to know to be a successful residential restate broker — in 3 days." (Which seems reasonable to us. Our general rule of thumb is: if you can't learn it in three days, it ain't worth knowing, and that includes cardiovascular surgery).

But Assistant Attorney General Rick Berlin told Donald Trump's lawyers that "the promises made to students were 'virtually impossible to achieve'" and that the information covered "is essentially unusable," according to the story.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/greg-abbotts-office-chased-trump-university-out-of-texas-emails-show-8451271

[hobbit709]

1. sort of.

http://juanitajean.com/hes-coming-to-the-flood/

If I can find my waders, I want to ask him about this. Abbott opened up a deceptive trade practices case against Trump University. Did any of the students in Texas get their money back? Nope. Wanna know why?

[Javaman]

2. probably because he was denied a cut of the profits. nt

[douglas9]

3. Greg Abbott’s top consumer attorneys built a $5.4M case against Donald Trump, but it never happened

AUSTIN — The state’s consumer protection division, working for then-Attorney General Greg Abbott, sought permission in May 2010 to pursue what it believed was a strong case to sue Donald Trump and Trump University for bilking Texas taxpayers out of more than $2.6 million.

But that lawsuit was never filed.

Instead, the investigation Abbott had opened into the now-defunct real estate training program and Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was dropped and Trump University agreed to cease operations in Texas.

The former deputy director of Abbott’s Consumer Protection Division now alleges that the attorney general office’s decision to quash the lawsuit against Trump — later a major donor to Abbott’s campaign — was a political move that left Texas consumers “high and dry.”

“The decision not to sue him was political,” John Owens told The Dallas Morning News. “Had [Trump] not been involved in politics to the extent he was at the time, we would have gotten approval. Had he been just some other scam artist, we would have sued him.”


http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/06/greg-abbotts-top-consumer-attorneys-built-a-5-4m-case-against-donald-trump-but-it-never-happened.html/