Trump targeted in education case Donald Trump has hit back against Eric Schneiderman after the New York attorney-general filed a lawsuit claiming the property mogul helped run a sham real estate course. Mr Schneiderman announced on Sunday that he was suing Mr Trump, the Trump Entrepreneur Insitute and the institute's former president for more than $40m. Mr Schneiderman said that the institute, which used to be known as Trump University, promised students they would learn "from Donald Trump's handpicked instructor a systematic method for investing in real estate that anyone can use." But Mr Trump "did not handpick even a single instructor at these seminars and had little or no role in developing any of the Trump University curricula, or seminar content," Mr Schneiderman said in a statement outlining the lawsuit. The claims provoked a strong reaction from the Trump Organization, which rushed to set up a website to repudiate Mr Scheiderman's allegations. The website states that 98 per cent of Trump University's students rated the programme as "excellent." "The action has no merit and is nothing more than a cheap publicity stunt to deflect from [Mr Schneiderman's] weak job performance," a Trump spokesman said. Maybe his office should focus more of their attention and the use of our tax dollars on bringing to justice those responsible for the financial meltdown. Mr Schneiderman said that New York's state education department in 2005 told Trump University to change its name since it did not meet the legal definitions of a university. Despite charging $10,000 to $35,000 for "elite" real estate courses, students did not receive "substantive instruction" on how to raise money for real estate investment, the New York attorney-general said. "More than 5,000 people across the country who paid Donald Trump $40m to teach them his hard-sell tactics got a hard lesson in bait-and-switch," Mr Schneiderman said. No one, no matter how rich or popular they are, has a right to scam hard working New Yorkers. Anyone who does should expect to be held accountable.