Former Texas Regulator Said He Was Muzzled For Investigating Trump University

A former Texas official said a fraud investigation into Trump University was silenced in 2010, under “highly unusual” circumstances. Former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens told CBS he had a strong case against Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s company for scamming students at his unaccredited real estate school. Shortly after the company folded in 2010, Owens’ says he was ordered to drop the case.

At the time, Owens’ boss was Greg Abbott, then the state attorney general and now the state’s Republican governor.

But Owens, now retired, made public a 14-page internal summary of the state’s case against Trump on Friday. The Attorney General’s office, now led by Abbott’s successor, Republican Ken Paxton, immediately issued a cease-and-desist letter to Owens in response....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/05/3784897/trump-university-texas-investigation/