New York Attorney General Looking Into Eric Trump Foundation

[DonViejo]

Source: Forbes



JUN 9, 2017 @ 01:18 PM

Dan Alexander, FORBES STAFF

By Dan Alexander and Matt Drange

The New York attorney general, which has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation for months, is now looking into the Eric Trump Foundation, after a report in Forbes exposed practices that seem to violate state laws. “The attorney general's office is looking into the issues raised by this report," said Eric Soufer, the communications director for the New York state attorney general.

One potential issue: The Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $100,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation, with the intent of covering the costs for payments to a Donald Trump-owned property, according to Ian Gillule, who worked at Trump National Westchester during two stints from 2006 to 2015.

"The interaction between the Donald J. Trump Foundation and the Eric Trump Foundation is a novel aspect to this situation," says Marcus Owens, who used to run the nonprofit division of the IRS. "It’s not often that you have a father and son set of foundations that are both under investigation by the same attorney general for basically misusing assets and interacting with each other in ways that cause assets to be used for non-charitable purposes."

The Eric Trump Foundation also gave donors the impression that all of the money raised at its annual golf event went to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a leading pediatric cancer center in Memphis, Tennessee. But according to IRS filings submitted by the Eric Trump Foundation, more than $500,000 went to other causes, several of which had ties to Trump family businesses or interests.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/09/new-york-attorney-general-looking-into-eric-trump-foundation/#7ab6170b1075

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Republican President Trump cannot pardon state crimes/prosecutions/convictions. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. "So he insulted POWs and Gold Star families...."

[deurbano]

3. They need to do this kind of investigation into anything connected with that corrupt

family of grifters (and their associates) in every state where they do business or "philanthropy." (Every state with a Democratic attorney general, that is; can't expect anything from Republicans.)

[Ligyron]

6. That's right.

I'm sure anywhere they look at a Trump and its money they'll find dirt.

This is a good place to start and I hope Mueller digs into the $$ angle too.

[Chemisse]

4. It's fraud and I'm sick of the Trumps getting away with it all.

You shouldn't be able to steal money from children with cancer (or veterans, or any other fake charity scam they have done) and just get away with it.

[ResistantAmerican17]

5. The Dingleberry

Doesn't fall far from the sphincter!

[question everything]

7. Eric Trump has a foundation? Doing waht?

Trying to make him looks intelligent?

[Auntie Bush]

9. Shilling money from unfortunate organization. Beats working!

[world wide wally]

8. The old shell game.

Trumps main occupation.
He has these meetings with foreign leaders at Mar A Lago and charges them for dinners and accommodations courtesy of you and me and Bubba.

[jaxind]

10. Tsk Tsk!

Maybe, tRUMP should have thought twice before running for President! Didn't he know that his and his family's dirt would be dug up? I can't wait for the day that this turd regrets the day he ever ran for office!!

[BamaRefugee]

11. THAT was the real challenge to him!

Being President? Pfffft, he could do that with his eyes closed, but bamboozling the entire world's fiscal watchdogs?
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

[iluvtennis]

12. Lock him up

[OldRedneck]

13. The Trump family probably wishes . . .

The Trump family probably wishes The Donald had never run for President.

They should have stayed in NYC and operated their criminal "real estate" empire. They were safe there because no one questioned them.

Now they are on full display and subject to examination by people who are not dependent on them. I suspect they already are wishing for the good old days before the spotlight turned on them 24/7.

[tanyev]

14. Nature and nurture, I suspect.

[Maeve]

15. Sic 'em!

Like a terrier on a bone!

[Montana ND]

16. Montana ND

Karma can be a bitch. I hope the whole Trump empire implodes.

[zentrum]

17. Grifters gonna grift. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. The turd doesn't fall far

from the asshole