(Julia Conley) The Trump family’s charity, the Trump Foundation, agreed to dissolve Tuesday amid a lawsuit filed by New York State which accuses the organization of a “shocking pattern of illegality”—but the Trumps’ legal troubles won’t end with the dissolution.
by Julia Conley, December 18th, 2018
The Trump family’s charity, the Trump Foundation, agreed to dissolve Tuesday amid a lawsuit filed by New York State which accuses the organization of a “shocking pattern of illegality”—but the Trumps’ legal troubles won’t end with the dissolution.
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation last June, accusing the Trump family of using the charity for immense “personal and political gain.” Underwood will continue to pursue her suit against the foundation, seeking $2.8 million in restitution and a court order banning Trump and his three eldest children from serving on the boards of any New York charities in the future.
“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone,” Underwood said in a statement. “We’ll continue to move our suit forward to ensure that the Trump Foundation and its directors are held to account for their clear and repeated violations of state and federal law.”
The walls are closing in on Trump.
He just lost his foundation.
His businesses and presidency are also at risk. https://t.co/s8h0yFtuvX
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 18, 2018
So in just the last week Trump’s personal lawyer was sentenced to prison, his campaign advisor/national security advisor is set to be sentenced for lying to the FBI, and his foundation is being shutdown for gross illegality.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 18, 2018
Under the agreement, the foundation has 30 days to shut down and determine which New York charities will be given the remainder of its assets.
President Donald Trump established the foundation in 1987 and served as its president until he took office in January 2017. His sons Eric and Donald Jr. still serve on its board.
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Underwood’s suit was filed after a two-year investigation, which found that the family used the foundation’s funds to settle legal claims against Trump’s real estate empire and to purchase a $10,000 portrait of Trump.
The family also funneled the foundation’s money to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign—a violation of federal law, which states that charities are “prohibited from participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of a candidate.”
“Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation—including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more,” Underwood said.
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David Farenthold’s extensive reporting on the foundation’s activities for the Washington Post sparked New York state’s investigation.
“The Post‘s reporting showed that, for years, Trump appeared to treat the foundation—which was, by law, an independent entity—as a checkbook for gifts that bolstered his interests,” wrote Farenthold on Tuesday.
The foundation’s funds, Farenthold wrote—which were ostensibly meant to serve “charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes”—were used for fees ranging from $7 to pay for Donald Trump Jr.’s enrollment in the Boy Scouts when he was a child to more than $264,000 for the restoration of a fountain outside one of Trump’s hotels in New York.
“For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public—even nationally televised—promises to give his own money away. It was, in large part, a facade,” Farenthold wrote in October 2016 when he first reported on his findings.
“Instead, throughout his life in the spotlight, whether as a businessman, television star or presidential candidate, The Post found that Trump had sought credit for charity he had not given—or had claimed other people’s giving as his own,” he added.
Trump’s lawyers attempted to have Underwood’s lawsuit dismissed—not disputing her charges but asserting that a sitting president is immune from such legal action. A New York state Supreme Court judge ruled last month, however, that Trump’s team “failed to cite a single case” supporting that claim.
Anand Giridharadas, author of the book Winners Take All, about philanthropy among elites, pointed out that the shutdown of a sitting president’s charity for blatant self-dealing is no doubt noteworthy—but that such conduct is far from unusual in the richest enclaves in the U.S. and around the world.
“What separates Trump from many elites is just sloppiness,” Giridharadas wrote on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1075071778567925760
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As of today i have read there is less then 3 million in that Foundation. If this was anyone other then Trump we would have never have heard of it. Foundations were originally set up for the wealthy to avoid taxes and you can deduct expenses from it because you own the Foundation. Notice you do not hear of investigations into the Ford. Rockefeller. Routhchild etc etc Foundations. the real criminals or even Gates Foundation who have all killedand,maimed millions of innocent people; but only recently Gates vaccines to India came out where he openly bragged about how “If they get the Vaccines right they will be very successful” and they were Killing many innocent victims in India for which finally India sued the Gates Foundation. If you want to compare what the Trumps have done in comparison to these others its clear they set out to humiliate and destroy him and his family. i also agree one wrong does not make others right. Its just another Witch Hunt.
Love him or hate him. He’s STILL, the BEST President, we
have ever had…!
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The most misleading article ever published by SITS. The only way you would post this nonsense is if you did not even do a cursory research. I realize that you expect people to do their own research and that what you publish is not necessarily something you believe to be true, but journalism without consideration for integrity is abhorrent. I am unsubscribing.