Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-lacks-the-certification-required-for-charities-that-solicit-money/2016/09/29/7dac6a68-8658-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html

Donald Trump is really in some difficult legal trouble which has nothing to do with Trump University. I hope they hold off on any indictment until after the election. We need to let the election take its course without every Attorney General deciding that they are going to charge a candidate criminally. I can say this without any hesitation......if Trump's foundations were registered as a not for profit in the State of Illinois......he would already have been indicted by a grand jury. I am afraid if this country is not going to become a third world nation, we need to stop these so called investigations which may be intended to bypass legitimate political hard ball, and at least delay indictments until after the election, and before the candidate taking office.

2seaoat wrote:Donald Trump is really in some difficult legal trouble which has nothing to do with Trump University.   I hope they hold off on any indictment until after the election.   We need to let the election take its course without every Attorney General deciding that they are going to charge a candidate criminally.  I can say this without any hesitation......if Trump's foundations were registered as a not for profit in the State of Illinois......he would already have been indicted by a grand jury.   I am afraid if this country is not going to become a third world nation, we need to stop these so called investigations which may be intended to bypass legitimate political hard ball, and at least delay indictments until after the election, and before the candidate taking office.

No, Seaoat, the voters need to know about their candidates. It's the job of the press to make these things known. And this is not Trump's first rodeo, so much of this should have come out years ago. He first started running for President in 1988. The fact that people take this con man seriously is scary.

Press doing their job is not the problem. The problem is bastardizing our criminal justice system and investigatory committees with politics. They took the challenge to the Affordable Care Act to Pensacola because only the stupidest constitutional argument in the history of statutory review could find a home in Pensacola. Next you will have the Pensacola SA prosecuting Hillary for not paying her bill at the local hotel.....get it.

I understand completely. I watched it when Bill Clinton was President.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39417-the-trump-foundation-looks-like-a-personal-piggy-bank

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From the WaPo article:

"...The Trump Foundation was established by Trump in 1987 to give away the proceeds of his book “The Art of the Deal.” Trump is still the foundation’s president.

For many years, Trump was the foundation’s sole donor: He gave a total of $5.4 million between 1987 and 2006.

Under state law, the foundation during that period was required to have only the ­least-demanding kind of certification, referred to as “EPTL,” because it is governed by the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law.

Under that registration, the Trump Foundation filed annual reports with the Internal Revenue Service and the state. But the state did not require an independent audit to ensure that the charity was handling its funds properly.

[Trump is doing his foundation a favor by ‘storing’ its portrait on golf resort wall, adviser says]

But starting in the early 2000s, Trump’s foundation began to change. It began to take in donations from other people.

At first, it happened a little bit at a time. In 2004, for instance, an autograph seeker sent $25 to Trump Tower, along with a book he wanted Trump to sign. The book came back signed. The money was deposited in the Trump Foundation.

Then, the gifts began to get larger.

In 2005, Trump’s wife, Melania, was named “Godmother” of a new ship launched by Norwegian Cruise Lines. As part of its agreement with Melania Trump, the cruise lines said, it gave $100,000 to the Trump Foundation. The Trump campaign has not responded to requests for comment on the gift.

In the meantime, Trump himself drastically reduced his gifts. After 2008, tax records show he stopped giving altogether. Since then, according to tax records, the Trump Foundation has received all of its incoming money — more than $4.3 million — from other donors.

Under state law, charities that solicit donations from others in New York must register under a different law, called “7A” for its article heading..."

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So, he's not even donating his own money to his "foundation", but he's using those funds to pay off AG's in Texas and Florida, to buy portraits of himself, and to pay his business-related legal fees. And he apparently didn't even register the charity he ostensibly put together for veterans. What does it take for people to realize that Trump thinks the laws don't apply to him? Why would anyone think that Trump has the interests of the country in mind? And why are there so many people willing to sell out our democracy?

Trump is a criminal. His intent was clear. The proofs are clear. He will be prosecuted. I simply want the same after the election.

yawn

http://truthfeed.com/clinton-foundation-exposed-as-bill-and-hillarys-crooked-personal-piggybank/9921/

PkrBum wrote:yawn

http://truthfeed.com/clinton-foundation-exposed-as-bill-and-hillarys-crooked-personal-piggybank/9921/

Lies.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16680

Overall Score & Rating 94.74
Financial 97.50
Accountability & Transparency 93.00

4 out of 4 stars


Program Expenses

(Percent of the charity’s total expenses spent on the programs
and services it delivers) 86.9%
Administrative Expenses 8.7%
Fundraising Expenses 4.2%
Fundraising Efficiency $0.03
Working Capital Ratio (years) 1.17
Program Expenses Growth 17.3%
Liabilities to Assets 15.3%

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Trump's foundation is not rated.

Trump will be indicted......we have clearly seen that Clinton will not be indicted. Please compare the two foundations because the facts are clear. One is operated as a criminal enterprise and the other has saved thousands of lives. Innuendo and lies continue, but will Trump take a drug test after the next debate?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-clintons-big-fat-greek-bond-wedding/article/2603174

The State Department has admitted it lost a 2012 email between Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan and a Clinton Foundation employee, which may demonstrate a financial conflict of interest for the former secretary of state.

The email contained an attachment memo about Greek bonds — a significant detail given the heavy investments Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, was making in the Greek economic recovery during that same period.

Chelsea Clinton, Mezvinsky’s wife, is a board member at the Clinton Foundation. The fact that one of Clinton’s closest aides shared insider information about the economic climate in Greece with the foundation — just one year after Mezvinsky and fellow Goldman Sachs alum founded a hedge fund that operated primarily by placing bets on international economic trends — raises questions about the many potential conflicts of interest that could have arisen from the Clintons’ web of connections.

The email in question was provided earlier this month to conservative-leaning Citizens United through the Freedom of Information Act. Sent in July 2012 from Sullivan to Amitabh Desai, a Clinton Foundation employee, and Justin Cooper, an aide to Bill Clinton, the message indicates a memo titled “Solidarity Bonds Greece Revised” was attached to the email.

But after a lawyer from Citizens United asked the State Department to provide a copy of the attachment, government attorneys said the agency “does not have” the original email authored by Sullivan.

Mezvinsky was touting a strategy for making money by “betting that the Greek bailout would raise the price of bonds” and had attracted some big investors who also happened to be major donors to the Clinton Foundation.

Mezvinsky’s former employer Goldman Sachs was also involved, bringing skills accumulated during what Fox News described as “a checkered history of manipulating the value of Greek debt, to the detriment of Greece.

Investments in Mezvinsky’s fund came while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. While her discussion of the Greek economic crisis in emails is expected given the nature of her position, the fact that her team shared information about Greek bonds with outsiders raises questions.

This is not the first time questions about Clinton using government information, possibly including classified documents, to assist Mezvinski’s hedge fund have been raised. Privileged information about Greek bailout plans would obviously have been very useful to the fund Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law was managing.

As it turned out, he needed a lot of help because the $325 million fund went belly-up, after losing ninety percent of its value.

Really......inside information......you have become a joke. Do you really think investors depend on the state department for economic information.....too funny.....how stupid does someone have to be to swallow that innuendo.....folks who make billions because of their networks of information, are going to depend on the state department for financial understanding of Greece......fricking idiocy.

New York AG Orders Trump Foundation to Halt Activity

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-foundation-ordered-to-halt-activity-by-new-york-prosecutor_us_57f29146e4b024a52d301870?&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pol%2010316&utm_content=pol%2010316+CID_581bcd29adb99d89b0b94ef5e24889ca&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20more

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"The Donald J. Trump Foundation is being ordered to cease its activities in New York state by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The charity was not properly registered under state law to conduct its activities and solicit donations, according to Schneiderman’s office.

“The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fund-raising activities in New York,” wrote James Sheehan, head of the NYS Attorney General’s Office Charities Bureau, in a letter sent Friday and released Monday.

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The foundation has 15 days to come into compliance with the law, and must also ensure that no other charities or third parties raise funds or conduct related activities on its behalf. Failing to take the required steps within that period will amount to “a continuing fraud upon the people of the state of New York,” the letter stated.



The Huffington Post has reported extensively on the Trump Foundation’s questionable dealings.

The letter from Schneiderman’s office represents another political blow to Donald Trump, who has suffered an extraordinarily bad run since his disappointing debate performance last week.

The stretch of political foibles includes the GOP presidential nominee’s ongoing body-shaming of a former Miss Universe and his pulled-from-thin-air suggestion that his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, has been cheating on her husband, former President Bill Clinton. On Saturday night, The New York Times reported that Trump claimed a nearly billion-dollar loss on his tax returns in the 1990s, which could have enabled him to avoid paying federal income taxes for 18 years.

Schneiderman also went after a Trump venture in June, when he said the beleaguered Trump University’s work amounted to “straight-up fraud.”

“It’s fraud. This is just straight-up fraud. It’s like selling people something you say is a Mercedes and it turns out to be a Volkswagen,” Schneiderman said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” adding that Trump’s so-called university wasn’t what it claimed to be.

Read the letter below:..."

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