Judge weighs woman's request to quit Trump University suit

[...] as the Republican presidential front-runner and his lawyers try to portray the Southern California yoga instructor as the face of a federal class-action lawsuit against Trump University, she wants out.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel will consider Makaeff's request to withdraw from a lawsuit that says Trump University seminars and instruction fleeced students with unfilled promises to teach the secrets of real estate success.

Makaeff's attorneys say the yoga instructor was unaware of Trump's "false advertising" when she completed the surveys and didn't want to risk alienating anyone who might advance her career.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Makaeff on the surveys when considering Trump's defamation claim in 2013, saying, "As the recent Ponzi-scheme scandals involving onetime financial luminaries like Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford demonstrate, victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced."