Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case

But the AP reports that shortly after Bondi received a $25,000 contribution from Trump in 2013, the Florida attorney general’s case against Trump University was dropped.

Bondi ended the lawsuit deliberations after the check arrived, the AP reported. I would never take money. “I’ve been obviously devastated over this”.

In a voicemail message to a Miami Herald/Tampa Times reporter, Bondi said, “I never, nor was my office, investigating (Trump). Which shows no one in my office ever opened an investigation on Trump University”, the statement read.

Bondi isn’t the only attorney general who was asked to investigate Trump University. Bondi cited a lack of evidence.

After several days of reports about Bondi’s office deciding not to pursue charges, coming around the time that she received a $25,000 check from a Trump foundation in 2013, the Tampa native finally spoke out last night, saying that her office was never investigating Trump U.

Was anyone surprised to read about the quid pro quo arrangement between Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump University?

Bondi has said Floridians could join the lawsuit from New York’s attorney general, who called Trump University’s seminars a “bait and switch scheme” that fleeced consumers of thousands of dollars. He has also helped Florida monetarily since 1999, donating $253,500 that Republicans mostly benefitted from (via The Associated Press). (New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman had just filed a lawsuit against the enterprise.) Bondi said that she would look into the matter. “When I call, they kiss my ass”.

As the AP pointed out, Bondi’s nixing of her investigation left Florida customers high-and-dry in their attempts at seeking restitution from the presidential front runner.

Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference about the Supreme Court’s second day of hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act March 27, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Bondi’s office said that its statement about receiving only a single complaint was accurate at the time because most of the complaints dealt with the Trump Institute, a separate corporate entity from Trump University, and were made before she took office at the start of 2011.

The web site of Larrabee’s law firm describes him as “a trial lawyer working to hold powerful corporations and wealthy insurance companies accountable to ordinary people”, and says he handles cases involving sexual and racial harassment and Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Trump has called Curiel’s credibility into question because the American-born judge is of Mexican heritage.