New York – NY Sues To Dissolve Trump Foundation, Cites Illegal Conduct

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    FILE - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump walks past a pile of papers during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonNew York – New York’s attorney general on Thursday sued U.S. President Donald Trump and his namesake foundation, saying the nonprofit should be dissolved after more than a decade of illegal conduct, including support for Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

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    Barbara Underwood, the attorney general, accused the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors of conducting “extensive unlawful political coordination” with the campaign, and “repeated and willful self-dealing” to benefit Trump’s personal and business interests.

    “The Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to non-profits, regardless of their purpose of legality,” Underwood said in a statement. “That is not how private foundations should function.”

    The foundation could not immediately be reached for comment.

    Trump’s children were also named as defendants in the attorney general’s petition, filed with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

    New York is also seeking $2.8 million of restitution plus penalties, a 10-year ban on Trump serving as a director of a New York nonprofit, and one-year bans for his children Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka.


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    chachom
    chachom
    5 years ago

    I wonder if she’s looked into the Clinton Foundation?

    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    5 years ago

    If the Left had done to Obama,or Clinton ,what they do to Trump ,they would have been gone a long time ago .

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    5 years ago

    Your tax dollars at work

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    5 years ago

    I suppose the legal merits of NY’s position are irrelevant…all that counts is that the Great Leader is being challenged…and anyone who dares do so is an unpatriotic, snowflake, fake news loving enemy of the people.

    Ain’t that right, Party Loyalists?

    You guys are an embarrassment.

    5 years ago

    Having dealt with private foundations for 42 years now, I can say that much of what was reported by the media constituted blatantly illegal actions by the Trump Foundation. I have heard nothing similar with regard to either the Clinton or the Carter foundations (even if some sources of support of either questionable).

    abilenetx
    abilenetx
    5 years ago

    This is called Tit for Tat you complained about Clinton we will look into his. I will bet they will turn every stone to indict him for something, where the Clintons are down right illegal and taking foreign money for favors for political and nothing will be looked into or picked apart. Favoritism too bad the government hates it own and rather see the country go down just to be right even when it may not be.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    5 years ago

    This is yonasonw, in response to the alleged chiddush that prosecutors went after Trump’s foundation only because he’s President.

    1. You think it’s unusual that visible politicians attract more interest from government investigations? Really? See Clinton 1 and Clinton 2;

    2. That said, reading summaries of the complaint makes it abundantly clear that the allegations are both substantive and serious, and that the investigation has been underway for a long time.

    AmYisroel
    AmYisroel
    5 years ago

    When will they be going after the Clinton foundation which was used to launder money and accept payments from foreign governments for favors while the machashefa was Secretary of State

    5 years ago

    To Yonason-While you are entitled to your opinion (no matter how distasteful it is), there is one thing that I absolutely hate about your postings, and one which is offensive to every Jew. You keep repeating Nazi slogans in German (i.e. Heil Trump, similar to Sig Heil or Heil Hitler, using the term fuehrer, and other Nazi German terms, which should have ended in 1945). Can you at least refrain from using those disgusting Nazi terms, or are you addicted to using them?

    Vvvvv
    Vvvvv
    5 years ago

    Poor Democrats, can’t seem to catch a break in all their many efforts to try and harm this president, Russia collusion hoax, etc., that now they’re resorting to attacking the foundation. It’s amazing that they’re looking at a foundation after they turned a blind eye to the outright corruption and thievery of the Clinton foundation! Wow, they’re so fair and balanced!