Breaking: Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising...

[OscarQ]

by NY ag office.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-ordered-to-stop-fundraising-by-ny-attorney-generals-office/2016/10/03/1d4d295a-8987-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews

[OscarQ]

The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday.

James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s charities bureau, sent the “notice of violation” to the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Friday, according to a copy of the notice provided by the press office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D).

The night before that, The Washington Post had reported that Trump’s charity had been soliciting donations from other people without being properly registered in New York state.

According to tax records, Trump’s foundation has subsisted entirely on donations from others since 2008, when Trump gave his last personal donation. This year, the Trump Foundation made its most wide-ranging request for donations yet: it set up a public website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, to gather donations that Trump said would be passed on to veterans’ groups.

But the Trump Foundation never registered under article 7A of New York’s Executive Law, as is required for any charity soliciting more than $25,000 per year from the public. One important consequence: Trump’s foundation avoided rigorous outside audits, which New York law requires of larger charities which ask the public for money.

“The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York,” Sheehan wrote to the Trump Foundation, of which Trump himself is still president. The Trump Foundation has no paid employees, and its board consist of Trump, three of his children, and one Trump Organization employee. They all work one half-hour per week, according to the charity’s most recent IRS filings.

Schneiderman ordered the Trump Foundation to supply the state, within 15 days, with all the legal paperwork required of charities that solicit money from the public.

In addition, Sheehan ordered that Trump’s foundation provide all the financial audit reports it should have provided in prior years, when it raised money without legal permission. He said that if Trump’s foundation did not stop its fundraising and file the proper paperwork, that would be considered “a continuing fraud upon the people of New York.”

Trump’s campaign has not responded to The Post’s questions about the Trump Foundation’s registration in New York state. The campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Schneiderman’s order, sent early Monday afternoon.

[ufcasey]

Copy of the letter:

[ufcasey]

Campaign response:

[eclaires]

Lofl.

I want this election to end with Trump in jail.

[katietornado]

Oct 3, 2016 12:16:34 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Lofl.

I want this election to end with Trump in jail.

I don't want to be that guy, because I find it so distasteful from the other side, but...

lock him up
lock him up
lock him up...

[andwhat]

[katietornado]

[paulryansdignity]

[marriedfilingjoint]

[downtoearth]

...but he's such a good businessman...

[sparrowsong]

Oct 3, 2016 12:16:34 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Lofl.

I want this election to end with Trump in jail.

I can think of nothing that would be that satisfying.

[lagom]

I wish I could say this is unbelievable.

Nope.

Totally believable. Expected, even.

[One Girl In All The World]

[CallingAllAngels]

I don't even need him to go to jail. He can be booked and released for all I care. I just want a photo of him in handcuffs and a mug shot.

[katietornado]

"While we remain very concerned about the political motives behind Attorney General Schneiderman's investigation, The Trump Foundation nevertheless intends to cooperate fully with the investigation. Because this is an ongoing legal matter, the Trump Foundation will not comment further at this time."

- Hope Hicks

[mrshandy]

[katietornado]

LOL HRC is holding a rally in Toledo and destroying him right now, and she's having fun doing it.

"He says he's the one who can fix things, and that's like having the fox guard the hen house. And here's what I'm really stunned by. I get stunned by something every day in this campaign, but here's one of the many things I get stunned by. He has put forward a tax plan that would cut his own taxes even more. It would be like, 'you're paying zero. You expect us to pay you to stay in business, all the rest of us in America?'"

ETA LOLOL:

"What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a year?"

[elleblue]

Oct 3, 2016 12:16:34 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Lofl.

I want this election to end with Trump in jail.

Forget anything else, THIS is what I want for Christmas this year. 

[iamali]

Oct 3, 2016 12:27:54 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

I don't even need him to go to jail. He can be booked and released for all I care. I just want a photo of him in handcuffs and a mug shot.

What sucks is all the die hard Trump supporters wouldn't care. In fact, they spin it and claim he was the victim.

[katietornado]

Farenthold is on CNN right now.

Brooke Baldwin suggested they may have to return the millions of dollars.

[bex]

I like how Hope Hicks is all, "we remain concerned about the political motivations."

NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.

I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE TRUMP U INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. HOW ABOUT DEM APPLES.

literally. dem apples.

lol.

I'm on a post lunch high, sorry.

[silva]

poor ivanka.

[jeaniebueller]

Wonder if Ivanka regrets this yet: www.cnn.com/2016/10/01/politics/ivanka-trump-tv-ad-donald-trump/

[tessalb]

This is delicious.