UPDATE: New York files suit against Trump, alleging his charity engaged in 'illegal conduct'
Source: Washington Post
The New York attorney general on Thursday filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children alleging "persistently illegal conduct" at the president's personal charity, saying Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit -- to pay off his businesses' creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion dollar giveaway at his 2016 campaign events.
In the suit, filed Thursday morning, attorney general Barbara Underwood asked a state judge to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation. She asked that its remaining $1 million in assets be distributed to other charities and that Trump be forced to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties.
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.
In the suit, Underwood noted that Trump had already paid more than $330,000 in reimbursements and penalty taxes since 2016. New York state began probing the Trump Foundation in response to an investigation by The Washington Post.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-files-suit-against-president-trump-alleging-his-charity-engaged-in-illegal-conduct/2018/06/14/c3cbf71e-6fc9-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html
Original story -
The lawsuit, filed by state Attorney General Barbara Underwood, comes after an investigation spurred by The Washington Post's reporting.
The suit accuses President Trump and his three eldest children of repeatedly misusing his nonprofit, including to pay off his businesses' creditors, decorate one of his golf clubs and stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at his 2016 campaign events.
Underwood asked a state judge to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation, to distribute its remaining $1 million in assets to other charities, and to force Trump to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and damages. She also asked that the president be banned from leading any other New York nonprofit for 10 years.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/14/new-york-files-suit-against-trump-alleging-his-charity-engaged-in-illegal-conduct/?utm_term.08c5b49153c1
Edit to add NYT article -
By Danny Hakim
June 14, 2018
The New York State attorney general's office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve the foundation and bar President Trump and three of his children from serving on nonprofit organizations, was an unprecedented rebuke of a sitting president. The attorney general also sent referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission for possible further action, adding to Mr. Trump's extensive legal problems.
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, culminated a nearly two-year investigation of Mr. Trump's charity, which became a subject of scrutiny during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. While such foundations are supposed to be devoted to charitable activities, the complaint asserts that Mr. Trump's was often used to curry political favor or settle legal claims against his various businesses, and even spent $10,000 on a portrait of Mr. Trump that was hung at one of his golf clubs.
The $10,000 portrait was one of several examples of the foundation being used in "at least five self-dealing transactions," according to the attorney general's office, violating tax regulations that prohibit using nonprofit charities for private interests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-attorney-general.html
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since I wasn't 100% sure. Glad to have DU's resident attorney on it. 
Happy birthday indeed!
I hope you can hear her laughing all the way from Chappaqua!
Oh, and fuck you and your slimey kids too!
Oops.
This looks like trouble.
I swear it's their playbook - projection! 
ramped-up, rabid Repug attacks on the Clinton Foundation and all the while making dozens of lame excuses for Herr tRump and his mob family scam.
And, very soon thereafter they will go after the Obama Foundation with vengeance.
They just can't seem to help themselves without a big daily dose of whataboutism, projection and deception.
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It's always been a scam since Day One. It has been used by the Trump family for political gain, financial skirting of the law and avoiding taxes. New York State, please lock this family up.
Cheeto doesn't want to settle the case - fine by us!
A Democratic senator might think this alone qualifies as 'high crimes and misdemeanors!'
I want to see how he applied this on his tax returns..............................when he was defrauding the stated purpose of the charity and was using the money for something else............like manicuring his golf greens....................fraud is still fraud................the traitor and his family have no clothes................humpty dumpty...................comes to mind.....................
happy birthday traitor.................did you choke on your cake when this came down..............a sane person would..............but probably not you................what a
What to get for the man who has everything.