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Friday, June 3, 2016

State AGs Who Dropped Trump "University" Fraud Probes Got Big Donations From Trump

As scores of students complained that Trump University was a ripoff, the Better Business Bureau in 2010 gave the school a D-minus, its second-lowest grade. State regulators also began to take notice.
The office of then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, opened a civil investigation of "possibly deceptive trade practices." Abbott's probe was quietly dropped in 2010 when Trump University agreed to end its operations in Texas. Trump subsequently donated $35,000 to Abbott's successful gubernatorial campaign, according to records.
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Trump has fought to have the New York action thrown out on procedural grounds, but earlier this year a state appeals court cleared the case to go to trial.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi briefly considered joining with Schneiderman in a multi-state suit against Trump University. Three days after Bondi's spokeswoman was quoted in local media reports as saying the office was reviewing the New York lawsuit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 contribution to a political fundraising committee supporting Bondi's re-election campaign. Bondi, a Republican, soon dropped her investigation, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.
If I’m not mistaken, that is the textbook definition of bribery. 
Big h/t to Vox.com for highlighting this element of the scandal: www.vox.com/...
Update 1:
From polecat, in the comments:
(Pam Bondi) endorsed Trump for President back in March.  
Furthermore, that $25K contribution might be illegal, not just in the bribery sense, but also in the 501(c)(3) sense.
This is more than just bribery, ericwise0.  There is some real Tax Fraud there, too.

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