Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money
Source: Washington Post
By David A. Fahrenthold
September 29 at 8:25 PM
Donald Trumps charitable foundation which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney generals office.
Under the laws in New York, where the Donald J. Trump Foundation is based, any charity that solicits more than $25,000 a year from the public must obtain a special kind of registration beforehand. Charities as large as Trumps must also submit to a rigorous annual audit that asks among other things whether the charity spent any money for the personal benefit of its officers.
If New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) finds that Trumps foundation raised money in violation of the law, he could order the charity to stop raising money immediately. With a courts permission, Schneiderman could also force Trump to return money that his foundation has already raised.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-lacks-the-certification-required-for-charities-that-solicit-money/2016/09/29/7dac6a68-8658-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html
drray23
(7,636 posts)with all that is being found out about Trump why is it that he is not being indicted yet ? Are prosecutors ( or district attorneys I guess ) afraid they would be viewed as interfering with the electoral process ? Any other person would be indicted by now . Are they keeping their powder dry for november 9 ?
BayouBengal07
(1,486 posts)To give Trump a political shield to hide behind for a few years; all that campaign cash floating around for the taking...He did say he might be the only candidate who could make money on a presidential run.
Eugene
(61,935 posts)Let's see:
Cuba.
Trying to fire women who aren't pretty enough.
This.
Have I missed anything?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)radical noodle
(8,010 posts)Or the dominoes falling. Once one starts peeling away the layers of most organizations one can often start finding all the corners they cut, but he's a big fraud. This presidential run is the worse thing he could have done.
keithbvadu2
(36,865 posts)No legitimate certificate for a phony charity?
Is that it?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,865 posts)I meant: was that accurate?
It was by no means a defense of him.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)If you're campaign manager only admits one of your crimes of the day, can you still say, "You're fired"?
CarrieLynne
(497 posts)...i got enough shit in my background just from partying a lil too hard in the 80's lol
WHY the fuck would anyone with the background this guy has EVER run for prez? you KNOW u dont pass the sniff test man! (BTW - wrong kinda Sniff there Don ) you just want ALL your shit out ion the open? wifes nakey pics? dirty dealings w our enemies? shit man think for a minute lol
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The thread that just won't go away
We need a list of Trump's known crimes.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)The Internet is not large enough to hold a list of Trump's known crimes, and most people can't type fast enough to keep a list like that updated with the New Crimes of the Hour.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)this latest scandal
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)the article notes:
Unlike his fathers charity, however, the Eric Trump Foundation has registered to solicit funds in the state and files an annual audit report. The two Trump foundations share an accountant, Donald Bender of the firm WeiserMazars. A spokeswoman for the firm declined to comment on Thursday.
So the son's foundation, which employs the exact same accountant, does follows the regulations.
In case you didn't read the entire article, it indicates that there is a different between solicited gifts, and gifts merely received without any fund-raising effort or request. If someone gives a gift to a charity which did not solicit it in any way, that gift would not trigger this registration/reporting requirement. Since they did not employ a professional fund raiser, they also may claim that the rule doesn't apply to them. However, there's evidence, noted in the article, that certain gifts were directly solicited by Trump.