On Monday, Sherri B. Simpson, a former Trump University student, said that she wants to drop out of the recent $25 million class action settlement and instead take President Donald Trump to trial.
It’s a move that lawyers say could delay or endanger the November settlement, but Simpson says that she wants justice for being scammed out of her money.
According to Simpson, the Gold Elite course that she purchased after attending a three-day seminar in Florida in April 2010 was “a scam.”
“None of the promised resources were made available. The ‘mentor’ assigned to me disappeared and never returned my calls or emails,” she wrote in her sworn statement filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
Simpson’s New York-based lawyer Gary Friedman noted that “she was fleeced out of $20,000 she could scarcely afford,” and said that she had joined the class action suit hoping that Trump would either go to trial or be forced to admit his guilt. Instead, Trump settled out of court for $25 million, supposedly so he could focus on taking the highest office in the country.
“This was absolutely unsatisfactory to her,” Friedman said. “She wants to take him to trial. Any settlement with her would have to have an admission of liability for it to be acceptable. She’s very angry.”