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Really? You piece of shit.

Trump Fined $2 Million For Diverting Money From Vets Fundraiser to His Campaign

 
Benjamin Hart
11/7/2019
 A judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million to a group of charities on Thursday, ruling that the president had broken the law by directing the proceeds from an event advertised as benefiting veterans to his presidential campaign instead.

The lawsuit stems from the wild days of the 2016 Republican primary. Because of a feud he maintained with Fox News at the time, Trump decided to skip a debate hosted by the network just before the Iowa caucuses in January 2016, and hold his own, competing event instead — a televised fundraiser for veterans. Shockingly enough, it turned out the event wasn’t quite on the level. Rather than having the foundation run the event and direct all proceeds to the charities, as promised, Trump did something quite different. As New York State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla put it in her decision on Thursday:

“Mr. Trump’s fiduciary duty breaches included allowing his campaign to orchestrate the Fundraiser, allowing his campaign, instead of the Foundation, to direct distribution of the Funds, and using the Fundraiser and distribution of the Funds to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign.”

The lawsuit was brought by New York State attorney general Barbara Underwood, who announced last year that the Trump Organization would shut down amid her investigations into its well-documented chicanery. Though Trump had said on Twitter that he would fight the fundraiser case, his lawyers and the state have been in talks for months to negotiate a settlement.

It’s a loss for Trump, but $2 million is a minor blow in his universe — and the judge could have been harsher. She decided not to impose any punitive damages on the president, nor impose lifetime bans on him and his children from serving on the boards of New York–based charities in the future, conditions the state had been seeking. (Though she did put into place other restrictions involving his future charitable endeavors.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-fined-dollar2-million-for-diverting-money-from-vets-fundraiser-to-his-campaign/ar-BBWqP3w?ocid=sf

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The story is misleading (shocker right). The money was all given to charity. The fine is for tying politics in with the charity. The campaign has to be kept separate from all charitable fundraising. 

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Just now, Mainecat said:

Cover Trump any way you guys can. He was convicted and ordered to pay 2 million to veterans. The veterans he promised to pay.

Hes a lying piece of shit.

I’d say it takes one to know one here but, really, it’s just you.

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49 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Really? You piece of shit.

Trump Fined $2 Million For Diverting Money From Vets Fundraiser to His Campaign

 
Benjamin Hart
11/7/2019
 A judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million to a group of charities on Thursday, ruling that the president had broken the law by directing the proceeds from an event advertised as benefiting veterans to his presidential campaign instead.

The lawsuit stems from the wild days of the 2016 Republican primary. Because of a feud he maintained with Fox News at the time, Trump decided to skip a debate hosted by the network just before the Iowa caucuses in January 2016, and hold his own, competing event instead — a televised fundraiser for veterans. Shockingly enough, it turned out the event wasn’t quite on the level. Rather than having the foundation run the event and direct all proceeds to the charities, as promised, Trump did something quite different. As New York State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla put it in her decision on Thursday:

“Mr. Trump’s fiduciary duty breaches included allowing his campaign to orchestrate the Fundraiser, allowing his campaign, instead of the Foundation, to direct distribution of the Funds, and using the Fundraiser and distribution of the Funds to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign.”

The lawsuit was brought by New York State attorney general Barbara Underwood, who announced last year that the Trump Organization would shut down amid her investigations into its well-documented chicanery. Though Trump had said on Twitter that he would fight the fundraiser case, his lawyers and the state have been in talks for months to negotiate a settlement.

It’s a loss for Trump, but $2 million is a minor blow in his universe — and the judge could have been harsher. She decided not to impose any punitive damages on the president, nor impose lifetime bans on him and his children from serving on the boards of New York–based charities in the future, conditions the state had been seeking. (Though she did put into place other restrictions involving his future charitable endeavors.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-fined-dollar2-million-for-diverting-money-from-vets-fundraiser-to-his-campaign/ar-BBWqP3w?ocid=sf

Draft dodging and stealing 2 million from Veterans and no jail time. 
No outrage from Republicans.

They have zero shame. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, Angry ginger said:

the members here over 60 seem to have a remembering issue.  Makes sense now how many memory care facilities i see being built to serve the boomers.  

We're all going to get there sooner or later.

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For those that won't go to the link

However, neither Trump, nor his children Ivanka and Eric, nor his foundation, were found to have "stolen" or kept any of the donations, and so none of them "admitted to" any such actions. The New York Supreme Court explicitly acknowledged that all the funds raised for veterans groups had ultimately reached veterans groups.

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1 hour ago, racer254 said:

For those that won't go to the link

However, neither Trump, nor his children Ivanka and Eric, nor his foundation, were found to have "stolen" or kept any of the donations, and so none of them "admitted to" any such actions. The New York Supreme Court explicitly acknowledged that all the funds raised for veterans groups had ultimately reached veterans groups.

OUCH!!

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7 hours ago, Mainecat said:

Cover Trump any way you guys can. He was convicted and ordered to pay 2 million to veterans. The veterans he promised to pay.

Hes a lying piece of shit.

and again why dont you get in to specifics of why he was fined ? truth not as juicy I guess .oh you did not follow our red tape laws you have to pay even though the money went to where it was supose to go . fucking hack will follow any tds lemming over the edge 

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1 hour ago, Ez ryder said:

and again why dont you get in to specifics of why he was fined ? truth not as juicy I guess .oh you did not follow our red tape laws you have to pay even though the money went to where it was supose to go . fucking hack will follow any tds lemming over the edge 

Hell no.  It's all about deception.  These people are trained to do exactly that.

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Trump is such a boyscout

“For more than a decade, the Donald J. Trump Foundation has operated in persistent violation of state and federal law governing New York State charities. This pattern of illegal conduct by the Foundation and its board members includes improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.”

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3 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

Trump is such a boyscout

“For more than a decade, the Donald J. Trump Foundation has operated in persistent violation of state and federal law governing New York State charities. This pattern of illegal conduct by the Foundation and its board members includes improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.”

Compared to the current crop of elite dems, like Biden, YES HE IS.

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