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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: CNN, NY Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation, Charity
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report (WaPo): https://t.co/9Rw5uU7cbp
Matea Gold @mateagold 15m15 minutes ago
Underwood also asks that Trump be banned from leading any other New York nonprofit for 10 years seeking to apply a penalty usually reserved for the operators of small-time charity frauds to the president of the United States.
twitter.com/mateagold/status/1007273826919550976
Caroline O. @RVAwonk
"The Attorney Generals investigation found that Trump Foundation raised in excess of $2.8 million in a manner designed to influence the 2016 presidential election at the direction and under the control of senior leadership of the Trump pres. campaign." https://t.co/9JvRd4GA0c
Caroline O. @RVAwonk 1h1 hour ago
"In violation of state and federal law, senior Trump campaign staff, including Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski, dictated the timing, amounts, and recipients of grants by the Foundation ..."
twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1007278481628123142
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I want his evil, corrupt world to come crashing down around him!
malaise
(269,054 posts)I want Cohen to jump out of the bake with a sign - here I come prosecutors
Exotica
(1,461 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Oh Happy Birthday
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)And of course when it comes to immigration the gop xenophobes in congress just love to bring out the "we're a nation of laws" mantra ad nauseam.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Despite a life of firsts first in her law-school class, the first woman to serve as the nations solicitor general and now the first to serve as New York States attorney general Barbara D. Underwood has spent most of her career as a No. 2.
Working largely behind the scenes, she has served as the big-thinker-in-residence for a succession of bosses. In the 1980s, Ms. Underwood worked for the Brooklyn district attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, who recently called her one of the most brilliant people Ive ever met. Ten years later, she served as a top deputy to Zachary W. Carter when he was the United States attorney in Brooklyn.
And soon enough Ms. Underwood went on to take a job as the chief lieutenant to Seth P. Waxman, the United States solicitor general under President Bill Clinton. A thousand people asked for the job, Mr. Waxman said. I chose her.
Underwood 73, has spent a decade as the offices top appellate lawyer.
She replaces AG Eric Schneiderman.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/schneiderman-replacement-barbara-underwood.html
thbobby
(1,474 posts)I did not know enough about her. Still, do not I suspect. How fitting for spanky!
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)It was not easy for a woman of her generation to go to law school back then. And to become the AG of New York. Wonderful!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)total lack of ethics and willingness to brutalize is appealing to some clients.
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)She is very sharp, a genuine pro.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Well done, NY.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)you can't blow out these charges..............................
Whats your tax returns say about this fraud......................your going into court to explain ................fraud...........................................................
You and your criminal clan can go to jail..........................you have to testify under this indictment .....................happy fucking birthday......................... ...........................Traitor.......................
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)tavernier
(12,392 posts)You will want to save your breath for when you blow your top!!
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Oh that's right ... Eric! Lock him up, lock them all up.
They've been milking this fake "Foundation" for tax-free goodies for the last 20 years.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Reeks of fraud.
His life is a fraud.
His essence is a fraud.
He frauded his way into the Presidency.
Orange is the new fraud.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I think his son Barron is the only non-fraud. But give him time, he's only 12 or 13 years old.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)as the successor to the Trump Family grifting empire. Hopefully all he'll get are some rusted leg irons and the framed picture of his great-great-grandfather's whorehouse in B.C. Canada, donated by Prime Minister Trudeau. Barron might be the first Trump to actually have to work for a living. What a disgrace!
Duppers
(28,125 posts)How will they arrest 45 if he refuses to leave the WH?
It would take an impeachment and conviction but what is the probability of that?
Question: if the Dems were to gain all their Senate and House Seats would it be enough to have a two-thirds majority?
There's going to be a constitutional crisis one way or another. Trump will continue to degrade governmental institutions.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Maybe at the State of the Union address? He has to go to Congress for that, they can throw the cuffs on him and take him down on national TV.
yonder
(9,667 posts)murielm99
(30,745 posts)fucking military parade. Or, at Mar-a-Lago. How long can he go without playing golf?
Siwsan
(26,268 posts)Have some fans blowing the "aroma" towards the door. Then have the food truck personnel dressed like Vladdie Putin and Kimmy Jong Un.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)restitution, damages, the dissolving of the Trump foundation and temporary bans on any of the Trumps from opening charities for a certain period.
Let's hope this eventually gets referred for State criminal charges due to tax crimes and campaign finance violations.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)hitting him financially is like Stormy kicking him in the balls. Just not enjoyable for him and his grifter clan.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)...on tax crimes and others.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Federal charges will just get ignored or pardoned.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)all the federal and state papers they signed promising that this was a charity, and that NONE of this money was going to be used for any personal reasons. None. Lying on those forms holds a criminal penalty, both federal and state, if I'm not mistaken.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)...
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)The timing of this is partially meant to blunt the noise Hair Fuhrer is going to make about the IG report.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)The perfect icing on his birthday cake!
onecent
(6,096 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Justice my ass.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Of how trump accused others (Hillary and Bill Clinton) of corruption with no finding of anything against them, and now he is getting sued , and criminal charges may be next. This is trump , a corrupt , and lying criminal con man conning people out of anything he can get. And his claims he didn't conspire with putin and others to steal e mails, and corrupt the last election mean nothing. His supporters must now send in more money to his campaign , so he can funnel it into his pockets to use on his lavish lifestyle while feeding them more BS. He's an orange PT Barnum , and has found conning them with his propaganda is working.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)If you collect money for "charity" that you can't write checks out of the same account for your personal bills and campaigning?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#b21302c6b4a3
Or even give to a different charity...
If you are raising money for X, and you give it to Y, that is fraud, even if Y is a charity, says James Fishman, a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York who now teaches at Pace Universitys law school. If Im writing a check for somebody, and you give it to somebody else, I mean that is fraudulent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/29/eric-trump-foundation-told-donors-money-went-to-kids-with-cancer-then-gave-to-different-causes/#12deab2ca16ft-causes/#12deab2ca16f
Nitram
(22,822 posts)You can't turn around without bumping into another one. Winning the presidency was the stupidest thing he ever did.
W T F
(1,148 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Man, the New York AG included in their petition an actual picture of a note that is clearly in Trump's handwriting directing his charitable foundation to use funds to settle a legal issue involving Mar-a-lago. Trump can deflect all he wants; that's clearly illegal.</p> Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) <a href="
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mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)maybe, if Hillary had called him that onstage, to his face, just once, she'd be president today.. mmm what might have been. Even before this, his list of criminal behavior is and was legend. She should have gone there, live and in color.
If you don't fight the bullies loud and strong, they steal the election. Hindsight; 20/20
edbermac
(15,941 posts)Theres a whole bunch of people in line ahead of you.