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But Jay Sekulow, who is now an attorney to Donald Trump, had a private jet to finance. His law firm was expecting a $3m payday. And six-figure contracts for members of his family needed to be taken care of.
Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.
Attorneys and other experts specialising in nonprofit law said the Sekulows risked violating a federal law against nonprofits paying excessive benefits to the people responsible for running them. Sekulow declined to detail how he ensured the payments were reasonable.
This is all highly unusual, and it gives an appearance of conflicts of interest that any nonprofit should want to avoid, said Daniel Borochoff, the president of CharityWatch, a Chicago-based group that monitors nonprofits.
This article is from 2017 but well worth a read.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Important read
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the Foreign Press to out another Blood Sucking leech . My guess is,their was not a single Candy Ass Reporter State side to work this story. Can't rag on the Nobility .
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Trump had to pay back $2M+ and the kids only got their hands slapped and had to attend classes on how to operate a charity. I didn't see if the kids had to pay back any of the money.
Good grief. I just read the article in full. He may think he has all bases covered, but I should think an audit would be advisable.
I have a feeling that a lot of these Republican clowns run charities on the side and have probably shared ways to get by with it. When Bush was running for office, there were some brothers from Texas who were running several charities for children. I was amazed at how quickly several DUrs tracked their company/foundation down and found the address was a post office box site...whatever you call those places. Not sure how that racket ever turned out.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)Seems like it's easier to avoid detection when the fraud is committed under cover of religion.
Of course, red don's charity scam probably would have escaped scrutiny if he hadn't been installed as president.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)So a bottom feeder finally reached the apotheosis of his career by becoming 45's lawyer, a position which has an irresistible allure to the bottomest of bottom feeders ?
{in Homer voice} Mmmmmm ... scummy !
SunSeeker
(51,691 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Huckubee says, "Give it up for the Jay Sekulow band"...
H2O Man
(73,605 posts)There are, at most, perhaps a half-dozen worse people on earth today. But Jay is giving them a run for their money.
Initech
(100,102 posts)3sam3
(19 posts)Sure smells the same to me...