N.Y. attorney general slams Trump U. as a 'fraud'

NEW YORK, June 2 (UPI) -- The case against Trump University is strong and will prove the entire program was a fraud, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Thursday.

In an interview on ABC's Good Morning America, Schneiderman said the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, "personally pocketed $5 million" from his Trump University "scam."

"He keeps saying he's going to win the case, but he keeps losing motions" in court, Schneiderman said.

"This never was a university," said Schneiderman who is suing Trump on allegations of fraud. "The fraud started with the name of the organization. It really was a fraud from beginning to end."

Schneiderman said Trump "bilked people out of millions of dollars" and vowed to "make sure he pays it back."

The attorney general said he will demand Trump takes the stand when the case comes to court, even if the real estate mogul and reality TV star is president. "He doesn't have immunity from civil fraud trials," he said.

Trump faces three class action lawsuits against Trump University over accusations of fraud. Trump has said he will fight them all in court.

Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in one of two California cases, this week released damaging testimony from former Trump U. employees who called the program "a facade, a total lie" and a "fraudulent scheme" that "preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money."

Curiel also allowed the release of one of the Trump U. "playbooks'" that gave employees ways to sell course that in some cases cost up to $34,995.

Trump argues Schneiderman is part of the Hillary for New York Leadership Council, and is suing him for political reasons. Schneiderman contends "The case was brought in August 2013 over a year of investigation and extensive negotiations with Trump."