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Cease and Desist - NY AG to Trump
Topic Started: Oct 3 2016, 12:43 PM (129 Views)
George K
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-foundation-new-york-20161003-snap-story.html

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The New York attorney general has ordered the Donald J. Trump Foundation, headed by the Republican presidential candidate, to immediately “cease and desist from soliciting contributions in New York.”

The agency said that the foundation was in violation of state law by raising money in New York while failing to register itself as a charity and to file financial statements.

“The failure immediately to discontinue solicitation and to file information and reports… shall be deemed to be a continuing fraud upon the people of the state of New York,” read a harshly worded letter from the attorney general’s office dated Friday and made public Monday on the agency’s website.

The agency gave the Trump Foundation 15 days to comply. The most immediate concern appears to be a Jan. 28 fundraiser held in Des Moines, which drew considerable publicity because Trump attended it in place of a Republican primary debate.

However, larger questions have been raised in recent weeks about the Trump foundation. Unlike other family foundations, Trump and his relatives have given little of their own money, using the foundation instead as a way to raise money from others, while publicizing the Trump name, the Washington Post reported last week. In one case, the newspaper reported, Trump used $20,000 earmarked for charity to buy a six-foot tall painting of himself.

In another case, Trump paid a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for a 2013 donation by the foundation to a campaign group supporting Florida Atty. Gen. Pamela Bondi.
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Typical Dem playbook....
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George K
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Oct 3 2016, 01:46 PM
Typical Dem playbook....
The NY AG sits in the "leadership council" for the Clinton campaign, you should know...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-schneiderman-rules-1475537652

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Mr. Schneiderman’s office, in a letter sent Friday and released Monday, ordered the Donald J. Trump Foundation to cease raising money in New York. According to the letter, the Trump outfit is not correctly registered in the state to solicit funds.

The AG gave the foundation 15 days to turn over reams of paper, including audited financial statements and annual financial reports going back many years. Mr. Schneiderman warned in his letter that failure to comply will be deemed a “fraud upon the people of the state of New York.”

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The AG has endorsed Mrs. Clinton and sits on the Democratic nominee’s New York “leadership council,” which the Clinton campaign describes as the “in-state leadership” for her campaign, charged with “amplifying the campaign’s national voice to New York families” and “aiding the campaign with rapid response.”

Mr. Schneiderman’s prosecution of her opponent certainly qualifies as “rapid.” He could easily have waited until Nov. 9 to divulge his investigation and unveil his order. If the Trump Foundation has been deficient with its paperwork for as long as the AG’s office says, a few more weeks of delay would hardly hurt.

“To the public it will appear that Schneiderman acted not in the interest of his client, the State, but for whatever influence his announcement might have on the election outcome,” NYU School of Law Professor Stephen Gillers told LawNewz.com, and Mr. Gillers is no conservative.

Witness how responsible prosecutors operate: In Florida, state attorney Mark Ober recently requested that Governor Rick Scott assign a different attorney to look into allegations that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was influenced by a Trump campaign donation. Mr. Ober noted that he had worked with Ms. Bondi for decades and viewed her as a “close personal friend,” and that his oversight of the case would be a conflict of interest. Mr. Schneiderman isn’t even feigning an interest in the neutral application of law.

There’s also Mr. Schneiderman’s screaming double standard. A September Scripps News investigation found that “year after year the [Clinton Foundation and Clinton Health Access Initiative] have ignored New York law and related instructions” when it comes to revealing foreign donors. New York charity law requires nonprofits to divulge the name of each government “agency” (foreign or domestic) and “the amount of each contribution” each year. It found that Mr. Schneiderman has the power to force that disclosure but has refused to do so.

This abdication is especially notable given that Mr. Schneiderman has been on a tear to force conservative nonprofits to reveal their confidential lists of donors—the better for the left to know whom to harass and target. The lawless AG has sued an outfit known as Citizens United to get its donor list, and in late August he convinced a federal judge to help him trammel that group’s First Amendment rights. Mr. Schneiderman bragged, as usual, that this disclosure is protecting his state from “fraud and abuse.”

New York citizens deserve to be protected from abuse—of the prosecutorial kind that Mr. Schneiderman is exercising to swing an election. The irony is that Mr. Trump’s critics keep telling us that he must be defeated because he poses a unique threat to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. What about the abuses that Mr. Schneiderman is practicing now? Where’s the liberal outrage?
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