By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:57 EST, 24 August 2013 | UPDATED: 12:00 EST, 25 August 2013 New York's attorney general has sued Donald Trump for $40 million, claiming the real estate mogul helped run a phony 'Trump University' that falsely promised to make students rich. Instead, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that the university steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships. After the lawsuit was filed on Saturday, Trump shot back that it is false and politically motivated. Schneiderman says many of the 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 thought they would at least meet Trump but instead all they got was their picture taken in front of a life-size picture of him.
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accused university of encouraging students to pay for expensive, useless seminars
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Students paid as much as $35,000 to attend the university
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Trump has claimed that the suit is politically motivated
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