Ex-Texas official: 2010 Trump U probe dropped due to politics

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has moved to muzzle a former state regulator who says he was ordered in 2010 to drop a fraud investigation into Trump University for political reasons.

Paxton's office issued a cease and desist letter to former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens on Friday after Owens made public copies of a 14-page internal summary of the state's case against Donald Trump for scamming millions from students of his now-defunct real estate seminar.

Owens, now retired, said his team had built a solid case against the now-presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but was told to drop it after Trump's company agreed to cease operations in Texas.

The former state regulator told The Associated Press on Friday that decision was highly unusual and left the bilked students on their own to attempt to recover their tuition money from the celebrity businessman.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fb39c3abe1434694b802f241362eadf2/ex-texas-official-trump-u-probe-dropped-due-politics

[Democat]

1. Democrats in congress should start an investigation

And release the results two weeks before the election.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. K&R nt

[Rex]

3. Repukes hate consumer safety.

Pathetic lot of creatures.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. I should quite like to see the 14-pages of leaked internal documents.

I suspect it would be very damaging to Drumpf.