Tierney Sneed · Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 12:10 pm
Donald Trump used more than a quarter of a million dollars of his charity's funds to settle personal legal issues, a report published Tuesday by the Washington Post found. Tax law experts told the Post that the transactions appeared to be a violation of charity "self-dealing" prohibitions.
Monday's report comes on the heels of another Washington Post story earlier this month revealing that in recent years the coffers of the Trump Foundation have been largely filled by other people's contributions, yet Trump often took credit for donations the charity made.
The Washington Post reviewed a number of legal cases involving either Trump or his businesses in which a total of $258,000 of Trump Foundation money was used to settle disputes. Often, Trump would promise to make a charitable donation in order to resolve the legal issue at hand, but then would write a Trump Foundation check -- even though he or one of his businesses was a party in the lawsuit.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-charity-used-for-legal-cases
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