https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html
So basically he was having his charity (made up almost entirely of other people's money) pay off fines from local governments and people involved in litigation against him/his private business. That is blatantly illegal. It's funny that he calls Clinton 'crooked Hillary' considering he has been exposed as creating a charity in his name that doesn't use his money and then looting that charity to buy paintings of himself and get him out of legal troubles.
This guy is a walking monument to corruption and fraud. Sad!
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” — which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.
In one case, from 2007, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club faced $120,000 in unpaid fines from the town of Palm Beach, Fla., resulting from a dispute over the size of a flagpole.
In a settlement, Palm Beach agreed to waive those fines — if Trump’s club made a $100,000 donation to a specific charity for veterans. Instead, Trump sent a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity funded almost entirely by other people’s money, according to tax records.
So basically he was having his charity (made up almost entirely of other people's money) pay off fines from local governments and people involved in litigation against him/his private business. That is blatantly illegal. It's funny that he calls Clinton 'crooked Hillary' considering he has been exposed as creating a charity in his name that doesn't use his money and then looting that charity to buy paintings of himself and get him out of legal troubles.
This guy is a walking monument to corruption and fraud. Sad!