What charities?
Trump defends foundation after vowing to shut it down
http://nypost.com/2016/12/27/trump-defends-foundation-after-vowing-to-shut-it-down/...The foundation has been the target of critics for allegedly misusing funds. In September, Trump paid a $2,500 penalty after it was revealed that the foundation violated tax laws when it made a political contribution.
The non-profit is also under investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman....
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Trump’s Foundation Appears To Be Guilty Of What He Accused Hillary Clinton of Doing
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/22/donald-trumps-foundation-guilty-accused-hillary-clintons-foundation.html...We already knew about the ongoing investigation into the Trump Foundation for self-dealing by the New York Attorney General, but David A. Fahrenthold struck again, having found that President-elect Donald Trump’s foundation admitted to the IRS that it used its charity money to help the leaders, their businesses or families.
At the risk of repeating myself, it’s called self-dealing.
“That admission was contained in the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s IRS tax filings for 2015, which were recently posted online at the nonprofit-tracking site GuideStar. A GuideStar spokesman said the forms were uploaded by the Trump Foundation’s law firm, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius,” Fahrenthold reported Tuesday in the Washington Post. Fahrenthold was alerted to the filing by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Things get even stickier according to Philip Hackney, who told Fahrenthold that this disclosure leads to the question why it’s the first time the charity has admitted to self-dealing. “He said that, since the prior years’ returns were signed by Trump, that opened the president-elect to questions about what he had missed and how.”
Trump has not explained where the assets are that his foundation purchased for him, his wife, and others or how these situations were charity, other than a spokesperson claiming that his bar hanging a $10,000.00 picture of him purchased by the foundation was a favor for the charity, as it was providing storage. It’s unclear what transactions they are admitting to as self-dealing....