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<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100605055552/http://www.trumpinitiative.com/ www.trumpinitiative.com (archived June 5, 2010)]</ref>
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100605055552/http://www.trumpinitiative.com/ www.trumpinitiative.com (archived June 5, 2010)]</ref>
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Trump University stopped enrolling students in July 2010 and no longer sells seminars or other programs.<ref>Michelle Ye Hee Lee, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/07/sorry-donald-trump-the-mexican-judge-was-just-following-the-law/ Sorry, Donald Trump, the Trump University judge was just following the law], ''The Washington Post'' (June 7, 2016).</ref>
In 2010, the office of Texas Attorney General [[Greg Abbott]] investigated Trump University. The AG did not file a lawsuit, but after exchanging communications with investigators that included requests from the investigators for customer lists and internal documents, Trump University closed its operations in the state.
The office of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in September 2013 that it was considering joining a New York lawsuit against Trump University.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 2, 2016 |title=Trump's $25K to A.G. Bondi merits probe |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-pam-bondi-donald-trump-scott-maxwell-20160402-column.html |accessdate=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Four days later, the [[Donald J. Trump Foundation]] donated $25,000 to "And Justice for All," a [[527 group]] supporting Bondi's re-election campaign. Following this, Bondi declined to join New York in the lawsuit. According to a Bondi spokesman, Bondi had personally solicited the donation from Trump several weeks before her office announced it was considering joining the lawsuit.<ref name=Horwitz>{{cite web |last1=Horwitz |first1=Jeff |last2=Fineout |first2=Gary |last3=Biesecker |first3=Michael |date=June 6, 2016 |title=Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case |agency=Associated Press |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e16a8223c24048d290883370dc6abe5b/florida-ag-asked-trump-donation-nixing-fraud-case |accessdate=June 6, 2016}}</ref> In September 2016 it was reported that the donation violated laws against political contributions from nonprofit organizations, and that Donald Trump had reimbursed the foundation from his own money and paid the IRS a $2,500 excise tax as a penalty.<ref>{{cite news |first=David A. |last=Fahrenthold |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=September 1, 2016 |title=Trump pays IRS a penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney general |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/01/trump-pays-irs-a-penalty-for-his-foundation-violating-rules-with-gift-to-florida-attorney-general/ |accessdate=September 7, 2016}}</ref> Trump denied that the donation was connected to the Trump University lawsuit, saying that it was for Bondi's performance as attorney general.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lima |first=Cristiano |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-denies-impropriety-trump-university-donation-controversy-227741 |title=Trump rejects impropriety in Trump U. donation controversy |work=Politico |date=September 5, 2016 |accessdate=September 7, 2016}}</ref>
==Lawsuits==
==Lawsuits==
Though Donald Trump is adamant, that 98% of the ''customers'' - as the students were called in internal documents - were satisfied,<ref>[http://www.98percentapproval.com/ 98% approval - The Truth about Trump University]</ref> more than 16% of the students who paid $35,000 for the top courses received refunds and more than 30% of those who paid for the $1,500 package got refunds.<ref>[http://time.com/4246394/donald-trump-university-98-percent-approval-lawsuit/ ''Donald Trump’s Defense of ‘University’ Relies on Shaky Math''] by Ryan Teague Beckwith, March 3, 2016, ''Time''</ref> As of November 2016, three lawsuits were pending over the practices of Trump University:
Though Donald Trump is adamant, that 98% of the ''customers'' - as the students were called in internal documents - were satisfied,<ref>[http://www.98percentapproval.com/ 98% approval - The Truth about Trump University]</ref> more than 16% of the students who paid $35,000 for the top courses received refunds and more than 30% of those who paid for the $1,500 package got refunds.<ref>[http://time.com/4246394/donald-trump-university-98-percent-approval-lawsuit/ ''Donald Trump’s Defense of ‘University’ Relies on Shaky Math''] by Ryan Teague Beckwith, March 3, 2016, ''Time''</ref> As of November 2016, three lawsuits were pending over the practices of Trump University: