NY AG opens investigation into Trump Foundation

[Deepak]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...al-opens-inquiry-into-trump-foundation-228125

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into the Donald J. Trump Foundation “to make sure it’s complying with the laws governing charities in New York," he said Tuesday.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed Schneiderman’s remark and said the New York Attorney General’s office “has opened an inquiry into the Trump Foundation based on troubling transactions that have recently come to light.”

 

[Deepak]

The NY AG ordered the Trump Foundation to immediately stop soliciting donations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4d295a-8987-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html

The New York attorney general disclosed Monday that it ordered Donald Trump’s personal charity to cease fundraising immediately after determining that the foundation was violating state law by soliciting donations without proper authorization.

The message was conveyed in a “notice of violation” sent Friday to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, of which Trump is president.

The night before, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s foundation — which has subsisted entirely on other people’s donations since 2008 — had failed to register with the state as a charity soliciting money.

Because of that, Trump’s foundation had avoided rigorous annual audits that New York state requires of charities that seek the public’s money. Those audits would have asked, among other things, if the foundation’s money had been used to benefit Trump or one of his businesses.

“The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York,” wrote James G. Sheehan, the head of the charities bureau in the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D).

 

[TV and credit cards]

Trumpy spin this one to point positive yet? Looks like a gimme to me.

 

[Deepak]

Trumpy spin this one to point positive yet? Looks like a gimme to me.

I don't think they can. More likely they're hoping no one pays attention with all of the other items in the news about him.

 

[braces_for_impact]

Things may just be catching up to our Cheeto Jesus.

Trump's Tax Records Show He May Have Understated His Salary by Millions to the IRS

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Dennis Miller once did a skit where he said "Have you ever woken up after a bender and had absolutely no idea what you did all weekend? Run for President - someone will find out for you".

Donald Trump seems to have done so many shady things over the years and the idea that he didn't know in advance that a good number of them would come out if he ran for office means that he's too fucking stupid to be President.

 

[laughing dog]

Trumpy spin this one to point positive yet? Looks like a gimme to me.

He can try to spin it as the Democrats playing politics.

 

[bilby]

Dennis Miller once did a skit where he said "Have you ever woken up after a bender and had absolutely no idea what you did all weekend? Run for President - someone will find out for you".

Donald Trump seems to have done so many shady things over the years and the idea that he didn't know in advance that a good number of them would come out if he ran for office means adds slightly to the already existing mountain of evidence that he's too fucking stupid to be President.

FTFY.

 

[ZiprHead]

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/trump-often-stole-credit-for-other-peoples-charity-when-he-actually-donated-it-was-to-benefit-himself?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+NP_Top_Stories+(National+Post+-+Top+Stories)

Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.

But now he was sitting in Fisher’s seat, next to Giuliani.

“Frank Gifford turned to me and said, ‘Why is he here?’ ” Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.

“Just sing past it,” she recalled Gifford telling her.

So they warbled into the first song on the program, “This Little Light of Mine,” alongside Trump and a chorus of children – with a photographer snapping photos, and Trump looking for all the world like an honored donor to the cause.

Afterward, Disney and Buchenholz recalled, Trump left without offering an explanation. Or a donation. Fisher was stuck in the audience. The charity spent months trying to repair its relationship with him.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Dennis Miller once did a skit where he said "Have you ever woken up after a bender and had absolutely no idea what you did all weekend? Run for President - someone will find out for you".

I think that was Maher.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Dennis Miller once did a skit where he said "Have you ever woken up after a bender and had absolutely no idea what you did all weekend? Run for President - someone will find out for you".

I think that was Maher.

No, it was Miller.