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Complete article title: Greg Abbott’s top consumer attorneys built a $5.4M case against Donald Trump, but it never happened
I had not realised politicians could be bought for so little
Another investigation into Trump University was quashed by Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi. When asked for documents available under Florida's public documents law, Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel, received a 'few' pages. As Maxwell writes in his column, "Perhaps they thought no one would really look at them.If so, they were wrong.
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.”
I had not realised politicians could be bought for so little
A few years later, the AP reported, Abbott received $35,000 in donations from the billionaire real estate mogul for his successful gubernatorial bid.
Another investigation into Trump University was quashed by Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi. When asked for documents available under Florida's public documents law, Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel, received a 'few' pages. As Maxwell writes in his column, "Perhaps they thought no one would really look at them.If so, they were wrong.
8,491 pages raise more flags about Bondi's Trump money
Three days after the Orlando Sentinel wrote a story in 2013 about Floridians who felt scammed by a Trump affiliate, Trump's charitable foundation gave $25,000 to one of Bondi's campaign committees.
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Bondi's office originally claimed it had received "no complaints" about the Trump University (Page 3,229) since she took office.
Later, a staffer said: "Under this administration, we have received one complaint regarding Donald Trump, Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute (page 4,268).
Later still, a staffer said two (page 5,142).
Yet another wrote: "Just so everyone is aware, we have 100 complaints about The Trump Group." (Page 1,733), though that August 2013 message didn't cite a timeframe..