NEW YORK: Trump Files $100M Libel Suit Against State Attorney General

Last August, New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Donald Trump, allegedly that his Trump University real estate school was a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme that charged seminar attendees thousands of dollars for useless training.  Yesterday Trump sued Schneiderman for $100M, saying that the state has damaged his reputation. Yeah. Reputation.

In legal papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump says that his name, brand and reputation have been damaged by Schneiderman’s “malicious prosecution.” The attorney general “is using the publicity of a lawsuit . . . to further his political aspirations,” Trump lawyer Jeffrey Goldman charges in the legal papers, demanding “well in excess” of $100 million in damages. Schneiderman’s office filed suit last summer claiming that Trump University promised to make students rich but instead steered them into costly and mostly useless seminars. The suit claimed that Trump U.’s free seminars were often nothing more than sell jobs to get people to sign up for a $1,495, three-day seminar and eventually an “elite” program costing as much as $35,000 a person. Trump has been on the warpath against Schneiderman ever since, filing ethics complaints against him and denouncing the attorney general as a “lightweight” on Twitter.

In January a judge tossed some of the charges in Schneiderman's suit, but allowed the case to proceed.