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The Better Business Bureau says Trump University only received top ratings because it had already begun winding down, and there was little for anyone to complain about — though Donald Trump's campaign begs to differ. | AP Photo Better Business Bureau fires back at Trump

The Better Business Bureau fired back Tuesday at Donald Trump's numerous claims surrounding its ratings for his defunct Trump University business venture, issuing a point-by-point breakdown seeking to set the record straight. For one, it said, the business does not currently hold an A rating with the agency.

In its joint statement, the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the local BBB that represents metropolitan New York, referred to the institution as Trump University rather than its later moniker, Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, noting that it has not had a rating since September 2015. The rating for the venture fluctuated between D- and A+ over the course of the last several years.

Pointing to its reporting and rating retention period of three years, the agency noted that Trump University's rating was as low as D- in 2010, as well as the fact that as Trump U wound down operations in 2013, it received no additional complaints.

"Complaints over three years old automatically rolled off of the Business Review, according to BBB policy," the statement continued. "As a result, over time, Trump University’s BBB rating went to an A in July 2014 and then to an A+ in January 2015."

In other words, Trump University only received top ratings because it had already begun winding down, and there was little for anyone to complain about — though the Trump campaign begs to differ.

"They gave the program a rating and they admit that the rating was an A+," Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told POLITICO in an email. "Any lower ratings were given prior to the submission of documentation and other applicable paperwork. Once submitted, the program was awarded an even higher rating than previously shared."

As it had asserted last week, BBB also disputed Trump's claim that the agency faxed a copy of Trump University ratings during last Thursday's debate in Detroit. It also shot down the document Trump posted following the debate on social media, which it said was not a current document.

"It appeared to be part of a Business Review from 2014," the agency said in its statement.

BBB also said it has never accredited Trump University.

The agency's statement comes amid two separate lawsuits against the organization, in New York and California.

A federal appeals court on March 1 declined to toss out one of those lawsuits, a $40 million fraud case against Trump brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

“We look forward to demonstrating in a court of law that Donald Trump and his sham for-profit college defrauded more than 5,000 consumers out of millions of dollars,” Schneiderman said in a statement.

Trump has downplayed the lawsuit, saying it was "peanuts" and insisting he could easily have settled it, but didn't want to set a precedent.

He's also accused Schneiderman of doing the bidding of his campaign donors, a charge the attorney general has called false.

“This is a case about fraud. If you're talking about someone who you're looking at to be president, I think the issue of credibility is very important,” Schneiderman said on CNN last week. ”If you tell people we’re going to teach you Donald Trump secrets, and he’s never had any part of writing the curriculum — that’s fraud."