President-elect Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million this Friday to settle three lawsuits against his University, which was accused of bilking students out of $40 million.
Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, said the decision marked a major victory for the six thousands students involved with the case, adding that “every victim will receive restitution and that Donald Trump will pay up to $1 million in penalties to the State of New York for violating state education laws.” The dispute, which involved two class-action suits in California and the case brought forward by Schneiderman, marked one of the more controversial moments of Trump’s presidential campaign, during which he claimed U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not preside impartially over the class-action lawsuits because of his Mexican ancestry.