President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting at the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. (Bloomberg photo by Erica Canepa) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit and give away […]
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New York files suit against Trump family, alleging Trump Foundation engaged in ‘illegal conduct’
The New York attorney general on Thursday filed suit against President Donald Trump and his three eldest children alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity, saying Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit – to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion dollar giveaway at […]
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Trump Foundation filing apparently admits to violating ban on ‘self-dealing’
President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation has apparently admitted to the IRS that it violated a legal prohibition against “self-dealing,” which bars nonprofit leaders from using their charity’s money to help themselves, their businesses, or their families. That admission was contained in the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s IRS tax filings for 2015, which were posted online […]
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N.Y. Attorney General orders Trump Foundation to stop fundraising
FindTheCompany | Graphiq ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York attorney general’s office has ordered the Trump Foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, saying it isn’t registered to do so. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s Charities Bureau, wrote in a letter dated Friday that the failure to stop immediately and answer demands for […]
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Donald Trump used Trump Foundation funds to settle legal problems
Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire’s for-profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents. Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trump’s charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against “self-dealing” — […]