Trump Institute was a traveling lecture series founded in 2005. The seminar series was owned and operated by Irene and Mike Milin of Boca Raton, Florida . It used Donald Trump 's name via a licensing agreement with Trump University . According to the general counsel for The Trump Organization , the licensing agreement expired in 2009 and was not renewed.
8-673: During 2006, its first full year of operation, the company put on 120 seminars in 30 cities across the United States, with The Trump Organization receiving a cut for every seat filled. Although the Institute and Trump University were separately owned, their operations overlapped, and they often used promotional materials bearing both names. Many students complained that the Institute made false promises of prosperity and provided little actual teaching, and that requests for refunds were refused or stonewalled. Hundreds of letters of complaint were filed with
16-585: The state attorneys general of New York , Florida , and Texas and with local Better Business Bureaus . Although Trump was not personally involved in the operation of the seminar, he endorsed the series in a broadcast infomercial titled The Donald Trump Way to Wealth . In the infomercial, Trump claimed that "I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar... I'm teaching what I've learned." Michael Sexton, Trump's partner in Trump University, said he chose to work with
24-450: The Milins because they were "the best in the business". But the Milins had a record of previous get-rich-quick schemes and fraud investigations in multiple states dating back to the 1980s. In 2016 it was revealed that the booklet for Trump Institute, titled Billionaire's Road Map to Success , included at least 20 pages that were plagiarized verbatim from Success magazine. The plagiarism
32-587: The attorney general is appointed by the governor. The attorney general in Tennessee is appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court for an eight-year term. In Maine, the attorney general is elected by the state Legislature for a two-year term. The District of Columbia and two U.S. territories, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, elect their attorneys general for a four-year term. 2014 marked
40-569: The first year that the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana Islands held an election for the office. In American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the attorney general is appointed by the governor. In Puerto Rico, the attorney general is officially called the secretary of justice, but is commonly known as the Puerto Rico attorney general. Many states have passed term limits limiting
48-597: The head of a state department of justice, with responsibilities similar to those of the United States Department of Justice . The most prevalent method of selecting a state's attorney general is by popular election. 43 states have an elected attorney general. Elected attorneys general serve a four-year term, except in Vermont, where the term is two years. Seven states do not popularly elect an attorney general. In Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Wyoming,
56-436: The selection to 2 consecutive terms (9 states); 2 terms maximum (4 states), but 33 states still have no term limits. State attorneys general enforce both state and federal laws. Because they are sworn to uphold the United States' constitution and laws as well as the state's, they may decline to defend a state law in federal preemption case. The current party composition of the state attorneys general is: The composition for
64-420: Was discovered by American Bridge 21st Century , a super PAC . State attorneys general ( Alabama to Missouri , Montana to Wyoming ) The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states , of the federal district , or of any of the territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer. In some states, the attorney general serves as
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