The following article by David Fahrenthold was posted on the Washington Post website June 14, 2018:
Donald Trump directed millions of dollars to his tax-exempt foundation. Here’s how. (Video: Peter Stevenson, Lee Powell/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
New York’s attorney general filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children Thursday, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity and saying that Trump had repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at 2016 campaign events.
In the suit, Attorney General Barbara Underwood asked a state judge to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation. She asked that its remaining $1 million in assets be distributed to other charities and that Trump be forced to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties. Continue reading “New York files civil suit against President Trump, alleging his charity engaged in ‘illegal conduct’”