Erik Trump Foundation funneled $881,779 of donations to Trump golf courses

[Maru Kitteh]

Eric Trump Foundation Gave Directly To Donald Trump’s Company

An analysis of The Eric Trump Foundation’s financial documents reveal the charity funneled cash to Donald Trump.

Amidst sensational headlines of leaked tax returns and audio, a low-key analysis by The Daily Beast largely avoided the spotlight. A careful review of Eric Trump’s charity revealed the eponymous foundation spent large sums of money at fundraising events on Donald Trump’s golf courses—$881,779 in total. In 2013, $100,000 went directly to Donald Trump himself. He received a further $88,000 in 2014.

“There’s nothing necessarily wrong with contracting with businesses you own,” says Law Professor Philip Hackney. An ethical problem emerges, however, when such a “charitable” organization touts a 95 to 100 percent donation ratio, as The Eric Trump Foundation does. “There’s a question—maybe not of the legality, but of the ethics of it,” Hackney tells The Daily Beast.

More at ink http://reverbpress.com/finance/eric-trumps-charity-troubles-deepen/

Lock 'em up!

[NanceGreggs]

1. "Theres a question ...

... maybe not of the legality, but of the ethics of it."

There's the problem. We're dealing with a man who has no "ethics" - and the people who elected him either don't know what the word means, or don't care.

[Hugin]

3. I suspect "Ethics" will be among the first "Regulations" to go.

Look for the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) to be de-funded in the new Administration Reich.

https://www.eeoc.gov/

It's not just Trumpster behind this... It's the whole stinking Right Wing jihad. Keep in mind these guys want to end Women's Suffrage. They said so during the election.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. The legal infrastructure surrounding the office of the Presidency has clearly relied upon

electing persons who were at least intelligent enough to be concerned about the appearance of impropriety. The (semi)democratic election of a true megalomaniac was not considered. The need for some amendments is being brought into stark relief.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. There is a pattern with the Trumps..

[malaise]

4. A family of Cons and scumbags

what a bunch

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Rotten slimy apples from a rotten tree.

I was going to say rotten chicks hatched from rotten eggs begat by a rotten cock. Too lewd ? ?

[think]

5. Corruption laws need to be strengthened as corruption is basically legal now days...

[Emilybemily]

6. Rumps are grifters

Always have been, always will be

[Eugene]

7. Eric Trump suspends operations of his charitable foundation

Source: Washington Post

Eric Trump suspends operations of his charitable foundation

By David A. Fahrenthold December 22 at 4:35 PM

Eric Trump is suspending the operations of his charitable foundation — ceasing all fundraising — after facing questions about whether the foundation donors might get special access to members of the first family.

“No new money will come into the ETF bank account,” Trump wrote in an email message on Thursday.

That decision appeared to go beyond a pledge Trump had made a day earlier to the New York Times: In that interview, Trump said he would cease personally raising money for the foundation but left the broader fate of the foundation uncertain.

The Eric Trump Foundation, founded in 2007, raises more than $1.5 million a year through a golf tournament, online auctions and other events. One recent auction, for instance, offered a 10-week paid internship at the Trump Organization, which came with the chance to sit down for 15 minutes each with Eric Trump and his siblings Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. In another auction, the foundation offered a chance to pitch a business idea to Eric Trump over lunch.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/12/22/eric-trump-suspends-his-foundations-operations/?utm_term=.7968a0a281b8

[Maru Kitteh]

10. He's hoping they'll quit looking, so he can quietly "unsuspend" this income stream later

when daddy is finally, really king.

[onethatcares]

20. a chance to sit down for 15 minutes

with the assholes listed, be still my beating heart.

[barbtries]

8. it's called corruption.

for every single cent that comes their way, they finagle a way to put as much as possible into their own pockets. corrupt to the core. i plan to always make sure that not a single cent of mine makes its way into their boundless pockets of greed, but now that they have a path to my tax dollars, that's a rather empty determination on my part.

[Vinca]

11. Scamsters . . . all of them.

I hope when Trump tanks the economy - which is a sure thing - they lose their shirts.

[Hekate]

13. Grifters all

[superpatriotman]

14. I hope someone is keeping track of all this crap

Because I can't
There's just too much, and I suspect they count on that.

[Initech]

15. They gave Clinton so much shit for this, but when their side does it they look the other way!

Shit, there was a fucking documentary movie called "Clinton Cash"!!!! But the Trumps do it and they don't give a shit!!! Just... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! The hypocrisy fucking reeks!!!

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Right? Erik takes money for KIDS w/CANCER and gives it to Daddy, and

puts another chunk in his own slimy pockets . . . and *crickets* from the media!


I'm STILL WAITING for the media to deliver to us a daily colonoscopy on whether or not the American public finds Shitgibbon "honest and trustworthy."

honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy honest and trustworthy

The media positively drove this twisted narrative against Clinton while giving Shitgibbon a complete pass - and it continues.

Here - let me toss a few monitors with you!

[Initech]

19. If I hear one more republican talk shit about Clinton Cash...

Not only am I going to throw this story back in their stupid faces, I'm going to....

[spanone]

17. the trumps are fleecing america

[FSogol]

18. Grifters Gotta Grift