Donald Trump to pay $2 million to settle New York Attorney General civil lawsuit against Trump Foundation and his children

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/trump-settlement-trump-foundation-new-york/index.html

A New York state judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to a collection of nonprofit organizations in connection with a settlement with the New York state attorney general's office to resolve a civil lawsuit alleging the foundation unlawfully coordinated with the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

In her decision filed Thursday, Justice Saliann Scarpulla found that "Mr. Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Foundation," including by "allowing his campaign to orchestrate" a televised fundraiser ostensibly for the foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, in January 2016, and allowing the campaign to direct the distribution of the money raised from that event "to further Mr. Trump's political campaign."
In her decision, however, the judge didn't impose one of the outcomes the attorney general's office sought: a ban on Trump and his children serving on the board of any other New York nonprofit. She also declined to order Trump to pay punitive damages.
The order and settlement bring an end to questions that first arose during the 2016 campaign about whether Trump used money raised under the guise of charitable work for political gain. The resolution puts the President in the unusual position of having to pay millions in damages while in office, at a time when he faces a large number of other personal legal battles.

 

[Gun Nut]

So now that he was shown to have violated campaign laws by losing this case, what is the legal impact on him or his family? The kids were implicated too.. so can they be indicted?

 

[Patooka]

How is this not as big a deal as the Ukraine shitshow? Using a charity as a front to fund an election campaign should disqualify anyone running for office in any democratic nation.

Yes, I fucking know this is Trump and the GOP we are talking about but still, what the fucking fuck?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

This court case completely vindicated Trump. The 2 million is a donation from his charity.

We are pleased that the court, in rejecting the attorney general’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-pay-2-million-in-n-y-s-foundation-abuse-suit

 

[Patooka]

This court case completely vindicated Trump. The 2 million is a donation from his charity.

We are pleased that the court, in rejecting the attorney general’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-pay-2-million-in-n-y-s-foundation-abuse-suit

That statement from Trump's lawyers doesn't really reconcile with how the article started specifically, "after he admitted to using his charitable foundation to raise money for political purposes during the 2016 campaign." Are they really so unaware how much this makes them look like a bunch of cunts?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Wow. $2 million.
I think my personal best was one time i dropped part of a guidance system for an SLBM, by accident, and i never reached anywhere near $2 million in the hole.
And i like, followed all the rules, was in the right procedure, i just hadn't checked the inspection sticker on the hand-cranked don't-dropper.
I can't imagine how you can ON PURPOSE be $2mill in the wrong and brag about how well the case came out.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

This court case completely vindicated Trump. The 2 million is a donation from his charity.

We are pleased that the court, in rejecting the attorney general’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-pay-2-million-in-n-y-s-foundation-abuse-suit

That statement from Trump's lawyers doesn't really reconcile with how the article started specifically, "after he admitted to using his charitable foundation to raise money for political purposes during the 2016 campaign." Are they really so unaware how much this makes them look like a bunch of cunts?

There are now two truths in the US: normal truth and Trump truth. He has a bullhorn in conservative media. There is no stopping him from doing whatever he wants and when he's wrong from spinning it and most conservatives will just accept it.

 

[Treedbear]

This court case completely vindicated Trump. The 2 million is a donation from his charity.

We are pleased that the court, in rejecting the attorney general’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-pay-2-million-in-n-y-s-foundation-abuse-suit

That statement from Trump's lawyers doesn't really reconcile with how the article started specifically, "after he admitted to using his charitable foundation to raise money for political purposes during the 2016 campaign." Are they really so unaware how much this makes them look like a bunch of cunts?

From the Washington Post article:

The foundation’s troubles were first uncovered in 2016 — starting when a Post reporter attended a Trump campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa. Onstage, Trump gave away a $100,000 check from the Trump Foundation to a local charity.

Federal law prohibits charities’ money from “participating” in political campaigns.

"... every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need."

Yeah, right. Now he has to get more than half the electorate to buy into that.

In addition, The Post found that Trump had used the charity’s money to make a $25,000 donation to a political committee associated with then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R). Charities are prohibited from making political gifts.

The Post also found that Trump had taken more than $250,000 from the charity to settle lawsuits involving his for-profit businesses. And Trump had used the charity to buy things for himself, including a helmet signed by former pro football player Tim Tebow, and a large painting of himself that was later hung on the wall of Trump’s Doral golf resort in Miami.

At the time, a Trump campaign spokesman named Boris Epshteyn said the arrangement regarding the painting was proper. Doral, he said, was actually doing the Trump Foundation a favor by storing the charity’s art collection on its wall.

“Right, of course, he’s doing a good thing for his foundation,” Epshteyn said then.

The court did not agree.

All of these incidents — the donation at the Iowa fundraiser, the donation to Bondi, the helmet and the painting — were cited in the settlement as examples of improper spending.

After its investigation, the attorney general’s office alleged that Trump had effectively treated the foundation as a personal checkbook — without taking care to follow the laws governing charity spending. In fact, the foundation had spent only $163 on legal fees from 2001 to 2016.

In an interview with Allen Weisselberg — a Trump Organization executive who was listed as the foundation’s treasurer — Weisselberg said he had no idea he was even on the board, according to the state’s lawsuit.

When state investigators asked about the foundation’s policies for handing out grants, Weisselberg said, “There’s no policy, just so you understand.”

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a professor of charity law at Notre Dame, said in an interview Thursday that Trump had broken one of the most basic rules of charities. Money put into a charity must be used for charitable purposes, even if the charity has your name on it.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re in charge of the charity. It’s the charity’s money, not yours,” Mayer said.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

That statement from Trump's lawyers doesn't really reconcile with how the article started specifically, "after he admitted to using his charitable foundation to raise money for political purposes during the 2016 campaign." Are they really so unaware how much this makes them look like a bunch of cunts?

There are now two truths in the US: normal truth and Trump truth. He has a bullhorn in conservative media. There is no stopping him from doing whatever he wants and when he's wrong from spinning it and most conservatives will just accept it.

Exactly. The control he has over what is truth is very disturbing.

 

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