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Donald Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:30 pm
by Nutso
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ity-fraud/
A New York judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to settle claims that he used his personal foundation as a piggybank to advance his personal and political interests. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed last year by New York’s attorney general, which accused the president of a pattern of “persistently illegal conduct” involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka were also named in the case.

The lawsuit alleged that the Trumps rarely, if ever, held board meetings or discussed foundation business and that much of the money the foundation disbursed was used to help Donald Trump—not serve some broader charitable purpose. The largest donation the foundation made was a $264,000 payment to the Central Park Conservancy in 1989, a contribution that went toward the rehabilitation of a fountain outside of a Trump property in New York City. The foundation was also used to purchase a football helmet signed by Tim Tebow for $12,000 and to buy at least one portrait of Trump, which was later hung in one of the president’s resorts.

In her ruling approving the final $2 million payment and settlement, Scarpulla repeatedly pointed to Trump’s misuse of the foundation during the 2016 presidential campaign. In January 2016, Trump, fueding with Fox News, skipped the cable news channel’s Iowa debate and instead counter-programmed a charity fundraiser, ostensibly to benefit veterans, in Des Moines. The event raised more than $2 million, but documents filed in the lawsuit show that Trump’s foundation ceded total control of how the money would be disbursed to Trump’s campaign.

“Is there any way we can make some disbursements this week while in Iowa?” then–Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wrote in an email to a Trump Organization executive at the time. The following week, Trump handed out $500,000 in donations from the foundation during a political event. He went on to make doling out checks to local charities part of his campaign-rally routine.

Re: Donald Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:59 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
It's a small amount, but it still get under that orange shitgibbon's skin.

Re: Donald Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:17 am
by McAvoy
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It's a small amount, but it still get under that orange shitgibbon's skin.
Definitely. He doesn't like to lose.