kind of upsell situation to get people to pay for a year-long workshop where they had to pay $35,000. here is what s funny. during that three-day seminar, speakers urged students to go out there on these breaks and call their credit card company to request increase necessary their credit limits. what the lawsuit is saying is this is so students could sink more money into even more classes at trump university. the lawsuits claims interesting. they lead like a lawsuit list of accusations. students were misled to believe trump would make an appearance. instead of getting a picture with him, they wound up getting a picture with a life-size picture of trump. not even the cardboard thing. maybe it was cardboard. it didn t come close to having him in the flesh there. i ve been reading trump has been responding. it s always fiery. his attorneys responded.
we just want him back. we want to know what happened to him. that was brianna keeler reporting. donald trump has been slapped with a $40 million lawsuit by the state of new york. the claim that trump defrauded students at his investment school trump university. allison, what is going on with this. grabbing headlines, this time for a bombshell lawsuit that accuses him of fraud. new york state attorney general eric schneiderman is suing trump for $40 million saying he wrongly took from people who were led to believe they would get rich taking classes. school used trump s well-known name to craft a bait and switch. students were lured into taking a free workshop that was just a sales pitch for a three-day, $1,500 seminar. the lawsuit says once the people were in there, it became this
dollars. cnn business correspondent alison kosik is in new york to tell us what this is all about and how much money this state is trying to get out of donald trump. reporter: the new york state attorney general s office is trying to get $40 million for what it says trump school wrongly took from people atte attending seminars and the allegations are shocking considering donald trump is one of the most famous billionaires. now, new york state is suing donald trump and the investment school trump university for making false promises about its classes with the lawsuit calling it an elaborate bait and switch. that students were told if they took part in seminars that they could learn trump s investing techniques. the lawsuit s claims read like a menu of accusations. i says the university was a sham, that it lured prospective students to a free 90-minute seminar that merely served as a sales pitch for another seminar. a three-day seminar that cost $1,500. the lawsuit says once that these