https://www.foxnews.com/politics/po...oundation-funds-in-settlement-with-ny-ag

The New York Attorney General's office announced Thursday that a judge has ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages for improper use of funds at the Trump Foundation in connection with the 2016 presidential primaries and his own political purposes, as part of a lawsuit Trump and the foundation settled with state Attorney General Letitia James.

James' office had requested $2.8 million in restitution and a $5.6 million penalty, but Judge Saliann Scarpulla decided $2 million was a more reasonable restitution amount and declined to issue a penalty.


As part of the settlement, Trump admitted to misusing Trump Foundation funds and agreed to limitations placed on future charitable work. If he chooses to start a new charitable organization, he would have to report it to the state attorney general's office, according to an announcement from James' office.

TRUMP FOUNDATION AGREES TO DISSOLVE AFTER LAWSUIT ALLEGED 'ILLEGAL CONDUCT'

"The Trump Foundation has shut down, funds that were illegally misused are being restored, the president will be subject to ongoing supervision by my office, and the Trump children had to undergo compulsory training to ensure this type of illegal activity never takes place again,” Attorney General Letitia James said in statement. “The court’s decision, together with the settlements we negotiated, are a major victory in our efforts to protect charitable assets and hold accountable those who would abuse charities for personal gain."

But Trump himself released a statement on Twitter on Thursday night saying James is “deliberately mischaracterizing this settlement for political purposes."

The state filed the lawsuit against the Trump Foundation in June 2018, and the settlement includes four stipulation agreements, the first of which was fulfilled when the Trump Foundation agreed to shut down in Dec. 2018. The other three stipulations were added in Oct. 2019. They include distribution of the remainder of the foundation's assets to charities approved by James' office, training for the president's children Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr., and 19 paragraphs of Trump's admissions of illegal activity.

Those admissions include failure of the foundation's board to meet or engage in proper oversight, and details regarding coordination with Trump's 2016 campaign, including a Trump Foundation fundraiser that the campaign organized, and use of foundation funds to pay legal obligations, and for a $10,000 portrait of Trump. As part of the settlement, James' office said, Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed the foundation for the portrait.

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The Attorney General's office stated that the $2 million in damages and the remaining $1.78 million that the foundation has will go to Army Emergency Relief, the Children’s Aid Society, Citymeals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha’s Table, United Negro College Fund, United Way of National Capital Area, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In a statement, a Trump Foundation spokesperson said the foundation was "pleased to donate an additional $2 million" to those organizations.

"Following the 2016 presidential election, the Trump Foundation publicly announced its intention to voluntarily dissolve and distribute all of its remaining funds to charity," the statement said.

It continued: "Unfortunately, that donation was delayed due to the Attorney General’s politically motivated lawsuit. We are pleased that the Court, in rejecting the Attorney General’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution."

Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation

https://q13fox.com/2019/11/07/judge-fines-trump-2-million-for-misusing-charity-foundation/

NEW YORK — A judge Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests.

New York state Judge Saliann Scarpulla imposed the penalty after the president admitted to a series of abuses outlined in a lawsuit brought against him last year by the New York attorney general’s office.

Among other things, Trump acknowledged in a legal filing that he allowed his presidential campaign staff to coordinate with the Trump Foundation in holding a fundraiser for veterans during the run-up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses. The event was designed “to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,” Scarpulla said.

In a defiant statement issued Thursday evening, though, Trump suggested he was neither sorry nor in the wrong.

“I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history, who can give major money to charity (19M), charge no expense, and be attacked by the political hacks in New York State,” he wrote.

He assailed a series of Democratic attorneys general of New York who were involved with the suit, saying they should have spent their time investigating the Clinton Foundation.

“It has been 4 years of politically motivated harassment,” Trump said.

Trump’s foundation will be dissolved and its $1.7 million in remaining funds will be given to other nonprofits, under agreements reached by Trump’s lawyers and the attorney general’s office.

As part of those agreements , made public Thursday, the two sides left it up to the judge to decide what penalty Trump should pay.

The settlement was an about-face for Trump. He had tweeted, “I won’t settle this case!” when it was filed in June 2018.

Trump’s fine and the charity’s funds will be split evenly among eight organizations, including Citymeals on Wheels, the United Negro College Fund and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Attorney General Letitia James welcomed the resolution of the case as a “major victory in our efforts to protect charitable assets and hold accountable those who would abuse charities for personal gain.”

“No one is above the law — not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the President of the United States,” said James, a Democrat.

The president admitted, among other things, to arranging for the charity to pay $10,000 for a 6-foot portrait of him. He also agreed to pay back $11,525 in foundation funds that he spent on sports memorabilia and champagne at a charity gala.

Trump also accepted restrictions on his involvement in other charitable organizations. His three eldest children, who were members of the foundation’s board, must undergo mandatory training on the duties of those who run charities.

Charities are barred from getting involved in political campaigns, but in weighing the Iowa fundraiser, Scarpulla gave Trump credit for making good on his pledge to give $2.8 million that his charity raised to veterans’ organizations.

Instead of fining him that amount, as the attorney general’s office wanted, the judge trimmed it to $2 million and rejected a demand for punitive damages and interest.

The Trump Foundation said it was pleased by those decisions, claiming that the judge “recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need.”

Trump Foundation lawyer Alan Futerfas said the nonprofit has distributed approximately $19 million over the past decade, including $8.25 million of the president’s own money, to hundreds of charitable organizations.

At the time of the Iowa fundraiser, Trump was feuding with then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and refusing to participate in the network’s final Republican presidential primary debate before the Iowa caucuses.

Instead, he held a rally at the same time as the debate at which he called on people to donate to veterans’ charities. The foundation acted as a pass-through for those contributions.

James said the evidence of banned coordination between campaign officials and the foundation included emails exchanged with then-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

In one email, a Trump company vice president asked Lewandowski for guidance on precisely how to distribute the money raised.

Trump also admitted in the agreements to directing that $100,000 in foundation money be used to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, instead of paying the expense out of his own pocket.

In addition, the foundation paid $158,000 to resolve a lawsuit over a prize for a hole-in-one contest at a Trump-owned golf course, and $5,000 for ads promoting Trump’s hotels in the programs for charitable events. Trump admitted these transactions were also improper.

As part of the settlement, Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed the Trump Foundation for the cost of the portrait.

Total bull chit.

Year old news.



I sure can't blame him for shutting down any damned thing in NY.

You sure hate Trump.

Who did you vote for in 2016?

Who you pulling for this time?

Maybe you are in the wrong spot for your trolling?

When is someone going after the millions that the Clinton's misused in their pay for play scheme? Why are blatant Democrat abuses of power, etc, gone after? Deep State? Big government employees have been very crooked since the Clinton's were in the White House.

From crime to politics. Easy transition.
MAGA

It's unfortunate that Trump is the only politician saying the things that need to be said and doing the things that need to be done. As a person I don't particularly like him but none of the others have as good of a message.

LOL.

Yeah, you trollbots know what crime is after 8 years of Obama and Hillary.

Yawn.

Agree with the above except "doing the things that need to be done".
He hasn't changed things.

Hurry UP, Ruth!

Tell us again how he's not changed anything.

He questioned the hillary foundation so in typical bolshevik fashion they went after his foundation. He gave them 2 million to go away.

Why i'll put him up against any politician when it comes to special interests, lying, cheating and stealing.

I’ll bet you will jack off all week in front of your Bernie Sanders poster over that news.

It's not old news, the order just came out on Thursday, per the article. He tried to shut it down because he got caught playing fast and loose with the money. Just putting up data shouldn't imply hate for Trump. You've got to take the good with the bad, and decide for yourself where the balance is.

I thought Rick Perry was going to be the nominee in 2016. I was wrong.

Trump plays fast and loose with money, his money not so much, other peoples money for sure.

It's worth keeping a close eye on any sitting president, and not get into the hero-worship mode with any of them, regardless of party.

Sycamore

As the world turns.
Trump gives his Trumpsters an empty MAGA.
In return the Trumpsters KHA.

Kicked hiLIARy’s Ass!

Ah a typo!
Should be KTA.

"Must...get...Trump!.....gasp...sob...

The bastards are relentless

Interesting that the usual HYPOCRITICAL Trump haters on here such as Sickmore, Paddler PUSSY, GreyCRAPS, Rolling Turds and others, NEVER post anything regarding the overwhelming evidence of corruption by Hillary bitch Clinton, the corruption within the Clinton Foundation, her campaign, FISA abuses within the deep state, corruption within the DNC, UKRAINE collusion by the DNC and Hillary campaign, the demoCRAP party corruption, other deep state corruption etc and etc.........Why hell! Cannot do that!!

Trump haters here are an extension of CNN, MSLSD, NY Slimes, Washington COMpost and other lib rags.....

Trump Change compared to the $145,000,000.00 paid to Clinton for signing off on the Uranium One deal.

Sacrificing the safety and security of every American citizen for profit by the Satanist Hillary Clinton is completely ignored by the Demonrat/Communist/pedophiles here at the Fire.

Nope, not a thing, Charlie.

I assume you returned your entire tax cut to the IRS. Hmmmmm? Or are you all hat and no cattle?

I didn't return mine. But I just donated the largest campaign contribution I've ever made to the Trump 2020 campaign.

So they are now finished with the Trump Foundation. They can get a good start on investigating the Clinton Foundation.

Money Laundering - It's just what clintons do.

The only problems I see are the flag pole and the portrait, the rest is pure political bullshit.

I guess my question is how much did you donate to charitable organizations this year?

It's not so much "trump hating" but more SSDD hating. But Trumpsters don't get it. They just KTA!
Trump talks [bleep] and carries a little stick cause he has little hands.

Seriously UpChuck, get some help for you TDS, we're worried about you.....

........................Oh! I forgot to include you in my last post there SAcharlie (up chuck).......As usual, a very typical IMMATURE post from yer ass...

How about u posting sometime, some links and articles of overwhelming evidences of abuses of power against Trump by the deep state, actual Russian and Ukraine collusion by the DNC, FISA abuses by the deep state, abuses of Adam LYING Schiff of deliberately refusing the POTUS to any counsel, cross examinations, or the denial of all due process........................You damned HYPOCRITE!!!

LOL
I didn't get a tax cut. Exemptions were just juggled around for us commoners.
And you did get a tax cut either.
If you were really one of the rich that did you wouldn't be fuggin around on this forum.
What was your marginal tax rate; what was your effectine tax rate? Do you know the difference?

..............................SA (up CHUCK) charlie..................You are such an immature and an extremely hypocritical ASS!!!!.............What a damned CLOWN!

TDS UpChuck......

Heavy Drinking in the morning again?


https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

Maybe try taking up a hobby like hunting or fishing

Just tired of an idiot repeating BS he was told. Like y'all do.

Trump Change compared to the $145,000,000.00 paid to Clinton for signing off on the Uranium One deal.

Sacrificing the safety and security of every American citizen for profit by the Satanist Hillary Clinton is completely ignored by the Demonrat/Communist/pedophiles here at the Fire.

.......................Well we are tired of an idiot (YOU), who keeps repeating all the BS YOU are told and and that YOU take in like a damned sponge from the lib media.....Like Y'ALL Trump haters do...

Turnabout is fair play!!...............IDIOT!!!

Poor SAcharlie.

We!
Do anything on your own.
Oh, its just like BHO always says, you had help.

..LOL>>>LOL>>>>LOL.................U are quite the clown up chuck charlie. Try using your brain (what brain) and post some viable sensible english................You could not debate your way out of a wet paper bag!!............

The pills are kicking charlie, try to stay coherent.

Says the Soros shill........

I swear if anyone hits him with Narcan when he OD's I'm gonna fuqk 'em up!

Well why don't you do just that. Really find it and post right now. Something real and verified, not Hannity bullshit.

What was this about???

These trolls aren’t interested in that, understand? They are however, very interested in getting IN YOUR HEAD.

did you read it?



why aren't any of you armchair patriots investing in these mines? Why don't you buy them from these damned foreigners?

Russia has more money than I do?

What nothing!
Thought you had all that covered. You know a sound reason for being in the KTA club; other than being just a good old boy.

..............Hannity Bullchit uh?? Ok Bonehead! Why don't YOU TRY AND DISPROVE Hannity then uh?? Many times on HIS SHOW he has outlined the specific statutes and the specific laws and the overwhelming evidence of corruption on the demCRAP side..... And while you are at it how about disproving Mark Levin uh?? How about Greg Jarrett?? Alan Dershowitz too?? Hey wanna try John Wool?? Lets see now. How about you disproving Joe DeGenova as well uh??

Other than Hannity all above are legal and Constitutional EXPERTS!! Light years ahead of your ass when it comes to an education and the law.

You are a blithering idiot throw up charlie...Ooooops! UP CHUCK charlie. And quite the hypocritical idiot as well........Research your own damned links clown...

Oh SACharlie...........It is you who will be KTA on Nov 3rd 2020...................MORON!....................Cuz u gonna lose big time.

What? No links and articles you talk about of the deep state and FISA abuses.
I told you no Hannity bullshit and you tell me to disprove his bullshit. You're a joke.
The others you mention are paid performers for the media. They will say whatever they are asked to say for a buck. If later they are shown to be wrong they then say new evidence came to light after that interview. Lawyers are hired guns that say anything for a price, day in & day out, cause they don't shoot bullets.

Reminds me of a song by REO Speedwagon...Heard It From A Friend Who Heard It From A Friend.....

From USA,gov......

Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
Created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
Record number of regulations eliminated.
Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
Providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to POTUS efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
Reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
Reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.

I did not have to pay the ACA penalty. Saved $1500. My 2018 tax bill was $2200 less than my 2017 even though I made almost exactly the same amount. Some tax forms I paid more on in 2018. But the reductions still gave me $3700 more to spend on things like a new roof.

LOL
Not really from USA.gov(well a link to the whitehouse).

It's whitehouse bullshit no more creditable than Hannity bullshit.

What you posted is put out from here.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

"Trump Administration Accomplishments"

THEY DON'T EVEN TRY TO GIVE IT AN UNBIASED SOUNDING TITLE.

$2200 is good.
IIRC $600 or so for me. Paperwork at office.

Don't know about $1500 ACA penalty. Does the come up if you carry no health ins?

"E"mbellish.

..........U are one pathetic idiot Charlie...It would not matter what links I posted. With you as with all Trump haters, proven FACTS don't matter to ya....Your hatred for Trump, TRUMPS the truth, because from your tiny un-educated pea brain,,,get Trump no matter how,,, is all that matters................ .............................

Squeeze you have nothing to post. I called you out on it so you call me names. How do you keep showing up in a thread where you were shown to be a fool?

You calling someone a fool is laugh out loud funny.

Carry on stupid.

"The New York Attorney General's office"...

Don't you have a clue?

Truly laughable, isn't it

New York. What goes on there?

Tony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Cynthia Nixon, etc.

Like looking into a sewer.

LOL!

.......OK SAcharlie....Dispute anything in the above post with actual facts and please site your sources that dispute anything above regarding Trump's accomplishments since taking office....You dispute them? Well then site your sources......Also please site specific statutes in the laws specifically under the US Constitution article 2,,,that specifically shows that Trump has committed any impeachable offenses.....

Don't be confused about what you originally asked of me.
Your premise is the deep state is against trump. The DNC collude with Russia and Ukraine. There were FISA abuses and so on.
SO YOU NEED TO PROVE YOUR OWN PREMISE; not I.

They go after Trump for $2million, yet reputedly hundreds of millions have gone missing from the Clinton Foundation. Seems fair and unpoliticized.

Not defending Trump in this instance, just would like to see the fair and unbiased application of the law.

.....................I do not need to prove anything Mr. IGNORANT!!.....It would not matter to you what I or anyone else posted regarding all of the WELL KNOWN, PROVABLE, ILLEGAL corruption and complete frame job against Trump by the deep state Obama holdovers, the demCRAP party, the DNC, the Hillary campaign and on and on....In fact bonehead, Durham has now classified his investigation as a "CRIMINAL" investigation.......

Ya see there SA IDIOT. Any of us could post whatever proving all of the misdeeds etc. But you would completely disregard, excuse it and sluff it all off saying that it was all FOX NEWS propaganda, or these people are getting paid by Fox news to say this and that, and/or Trump is paying them to say this and that...IT WOULD NOT MATTER...You would come up with anything, any and all reasons to completely disregard it all.........................So Mr. sa upchuck Charlie, here are a few predictions for ya.

1) Soon to be released IG Horowitz report will disclose major ILLEGAL FISA abuses and expose those responsible.
2) The John Durham report released next year, will expose how the Russian/Ukraine collusion HOAX all began, who orchestrated it and why. Well we all know why! There will be criminal referrals from IG Horowitz.

3) There will be indictments from Durham coming down the pike......Will not look good for ya UPCHUCK....
4) Trump will still be impeached by the house....Will FAIL in the senate.
5) Trump gets re-elected by a huge electoral college margin.

So check 'em all off one by one there SAcharlie...........Cuz after all is said and done, I will look forward to replicating those famous words made famous many years ago in a certain TV commercial by an animated tuna fish that has your name written all over it.................

SORRY CHARLIE..............

The two million fine is the least of his problems in NY.

Trump has until 11/14/19 to appeal his latest loss in the Court of Appeals in the SDNY to the Supreme Court. If the SC turns it down, and they likely will, then Trump's accountants will turn over 10 years of his personal and corporate tax returns to the criminal grand jury investigating him.

This is just another example of the strong preying on the weak. Trump is too weak to do anything about it except to cry on twitter.

Like you giving and receiving head from other men on the way home from football games! LOL

Seems to me if anything was there, the IRS would have blown the trumpet loudly YEARS ago.

This country is full of mental midgets.

My dad used to say"You can not win an argument with a fool"Just put Short Dick Chuck on ignore like I just did and the stupidity is gone.Don`t feed the Trolls.

You know you've been here before just to have the rug pulled out from underneath you. One would think you'd wise up and start to question things..........

TDS is a cumbersome thing to live with.

You should get some friends together and protest outside the criminal court in Manhattan as a symbol of support. Your boy needs you now more than ever. First impeachment and now prosecution in his own home town. It's just so unfair. Clinton and Obama earn hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of their time in office and your boy gets impeached and indicted. Just because he's a weakling doesn't mean he deserves to be abused like this. Where's the justice?

Lemme know if you need help coming up with catchy slogans for you picket signs. I'd be glad to help if I can.

...................Well RT,,,short for Rolling Turds.....First off. Impeachment vote by the house and passed by the house,,IS NOT impeachment. An impeachment vote by the house is meaningless.

"OUR BOY" is be doing just fine. So no RT, none of us will need your help coming up with any of your so-called catchy slogans for use on picket signs.

I have a good feeling that indictments will be coming down all-right....But it will not be Trump who will be indicted.....

Stay tuned RT.............