Trump, kids to pay $2 million in settlement

God dammit

Why oh why do people keep letting him off the hook. For a little money it all goes away.... every damn time.

He lied, he cheated convict him.

‘Regular’ people get hail time for fake charities & charity fraud why let these entitled jerks off the hook?
www.google.com/amp/s/myfox8.com/2019/09/16/nc-woman-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-after-using-fake-charity-to-commit-fraud/amp/

If you read what the case was about, what the charges were, what trump et al did and what the judge had to rule about it, it’s like what he was doing with the Ukraine funding—-using other people money to benefit himself personally and politically.

He is, was, always will be a complete and dishonest fraud.

"Among Mr. Trump’s admissions in court papers: The charity gave his campaign complete control over disbursing the $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a fund-raiser for veterans in Iowa in January 2016, only days before the state’s presidential nominating caucuses. The fund-raiser, he acknowledged, was in fact a campaign event. ...

Under its terms, Mr. Trump’s lawyers agreed to give the Trump Foundation’s remaining assets of $1.7 million to a group of charities that have no connection to the president or his family. They included the Children’s Aid Society, Citymeals on Wheels, the United Negro College Fund, the United Way of the National Capital Area and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The $2 million in damages Justice Scarpulla awarded, which were akin to a fine, were to be paid to those same groups.

Both sides agreed that three of Mr. Trump’s children who were officers of the foundation — Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump — will undergo training in order to ensure they do not engage in similar improprieties. As board members of the foundation, the president’s children were named as defendants in the lawsuit.

Though the board was supposed to oversee the foundation’s expenditures, Mr. Trump admitted that it never met over a period of nearly two decades.

Mr. Trump agreed that any charity he becomes involved with in the future will have a majority of independent directors, lawyers with expertise in nonprofit law and an accounting firm to monitor its grants and expenses.

Ms. James hailed the court’s decision and the resolution of the lawsuit as “a major victory” that would send a warning to “those who would abuse charities for personal gain.” Mr. Trump, she said, had used the foundation as “a piggy bank to promote his political interests.” She added: “No one is above the law — not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the president of the United States.”

In a statement, a spokesman for the Trump Foundation attacked the original lawsuit as “politically motivated.” (All three of the New York attorneys general who worked on the case were Democrats.) The foundation also portrayed the damages awarded by Justice Scarpulla as a “contribution,” adding that it was “pleased to donate an additional $2 million” to “worthy organizations.”"

www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/nyregion/trump-charities-new-york.html

They can't stop lying - even about the settlement itself.