Off-Topic: Trump used charity funds to pay off legal problems
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems/2016/09/20/adc88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html
In another case, court papers say one of Trump's golf courses
in New York agreed to settle a lawsuit by making a donation to
the plaintiff's chosen charity. A $158,000 donation was made
by the Trump Foundation, according to tax records. The other
expenditures involved smaller amounts. In 2013, Trump used
$5,000 from the foundation to buy advertisements touting his
chain of hotels in programs for three events organized by a
D.C. preservation group. And in 2014, Trump spent $10,000 of
the foundation's money for a portrait of himself bought at a
charity fundraiser. Or, rather, another portrait of himself.
Several years earlier, Trump had used $20,000 from the Trump
Foundation to buy a different, six foot-tall portrait. If the
Internal Revenue Service were to find that Trump violated
self-dealing rules, the agency could require him to pay
penalty taxes or to reimburse the foundation for all the money
it spent on his behalf. Trump is also facing scrutiny from
the office of the New York attorney general, which is
examining whether the foundation broke state charity laws.
More broadly, these cases also provide new evidence that Trump
ran his charity in a way that may have violated U.S. tax law
and gone against the moral conventions of philanthropy. "I
represent 700 nonprofits a year, and I've never encountered
anything so brazen," said Jeffrey Tenenbaum, who advises
charities at the Venable law firm in Washington. After The
Post described the details of these Trump Foundation gifts,
Tenenbaum described them as "really shocking." "If he's using
other people's money -- run through his foundation -- to
satisfy his personal obligations, then that's about as blatant
an example of self-dealing [as] I've seen in a while,"
Tenenbaum said.
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