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Trump Foundation Lacks the Certification Required
for Charities That Solicit Money
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Trump Foundation Lacks the Certification Required
for Charities That Solicit Money
By David A. Fahrenthold
September 29, 2016 at 8:25 PM
Washington Post
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
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/grd3s22
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Schneidermans office declined to comment on whether it was investigating
the lack of registration for the Trump Foundation. Schneiderman had
previously launched an investigation of the foundation in the wake of
reports by The Washington Post that Trump used his charitys money to make
a political gift, to buy paintings of himself and to settle legal disputes
involving his for-profit businesses.
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Tax filings show that in each of the past 10 years for which there are
records, the Trump Foundation raised more than $25,000 from outsiders. Tax
records alone do not reveal whether the donations amounted to
solicitations under New York law, but in several cases there is strong
evidence that they did.
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For instance, the foundation has received more than $2.3 million from
companies that owed money to Trump or one of his businesses but that were
instructed to pay the foundation instead, according to people familiar
with those transactions.
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In the most obvious example of a public solicitation, the Trump Foundation
set up a website early this year to collect small-dollar donations that it
promised to pass along to veterans. In all, the website said, the Trump
Foundation took in $1.67 million through that site.
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But, as of this week, the Trump Foundation had not obtained the state
registration required to ask for donations, according to a spokesman for
Schneiderman.
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Experts on charity law said they were surprised that Trumps foundation
given its connections to a wealthy man and his complex corporation did
not register to solicit funds.
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Hes a billionaire who acts like a thousandaire, said James J. Fishman, a
professor at Pace Universitys law school in White Plains, N.Y. He said
Trumps foundation seemed to have made errors, including the lack of proper
registration, that were more common among very small family foundations.
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In 2005, Trumps wife, Melania, was named Godmother of a new ship launched
by Norwegian Cruise Lines. As part of its agreement with Melania Trump,
the cruise lines said, it gave $100,000 to the Trump Foundation.
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In the meantime, Trump himself drastically reduced his gifts. After 2008,
tax records show he stopped giving altogether. Since then, according to
tax records, the Trump Foundation has received all of its incoming money
more than $4.3 million from other donors.
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Under state law, charities that solicit donations from others in New York
must register under a different law, called 7A for its article heading.
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Then, this year, Trump skipped a Republican primary debate in Iowa and
instead held a televised fundraiser for veterans causes. As part of that
effort, he set up a website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, which took donations
via credit card and sent them to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
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Over 1,670,000 raised online, said the thank-you message from the Trump
Foundation, after The Post made a $10 donation in March.
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The most important consequence of not registering under the more rigorous
7A level was that the Trump Foundation was not required by the state to
submit to an annual audit by outside accountants. In such an audit,
charity-law experts said, the accountants might have checked the Trump
Foundations books comparing its records with its outgoing checks, and
asking whether the foundation had engaged in any transactions that
benefited Trump or his businesses.
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In recent years, The Post has reported, Trumps foundation does appear to
have violated tax laws in several instances.
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In 2013, it gave a donation to a political group supporting Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) despite a ban on nonprofit groups making
political gifts. The Trump Foundation then filed an incorrect tax filing,
which omitted any mention of that gift, and said incorrectly that the
money had gone to a charity in Kansas. Trump paid a $2,500 penalty tax for
that political gift this year.
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