A civil racketeering lawsuit against Donald Trump can proceed as a class action, a federal judge has ruled, in a major incremental victory for a former student accusing him of running a bogus investment university. The ruling by Judge Gonzalo Curiel means that a California businessman named Art Cohen can sue Donald Trump on behalf of anybody who bought seminars from Trump University after January 2007. That lawsuit accuses Donald Trump and his university of violating federal racketeering law by scheming to defraud students into paying thousands for useless real-estate investing classes. Curiel's ruling is a big deal ... (full story)