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   Trump Pays $2 Million to 8 Charities for Misuse of Foundation   
   Under a settlement, the president admitted he had used his charity to   
   bolster his campaign and settle business debts.   
      
   President Trump has paid $2 million to eight charities as part of a   
   settlement in which the president admitted he misused funds raised by the   
   Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid and pay off   
   business debts, the New York State attorney general said on Tuesday.   
      
   The foundation’s giving patterns and management came under scrutiny during   
   Mr. Trump’s run for office, and last year the New York attorney general   
   filed a lawsuit accusing the president and his family of using the   
   foundation as an extension of their businesses and the campaign.   
      
   The payments were part of a settlement announced last month that capped a   
   drawn-out legal battle. In the end, the president admitted in court   
   documents that he had used the foundation to settle legal obligations of   
   his businesses and even to purchase a portrait of himself.   
      
   “Charities are not a means to an end, which is why these damages speak to   
   the president’s abuse of power and represent a victory for not-for-profits   
   that follow the law,” the attorney general, Letitia James, said in a   
   statement. “Funds have finally gone where they deserve — to eight credible   
   charities.”   
      
      
      
      
   Last month, a state judge ordered the president to give $2 million to the   
   eight charities, or $250,000 per charity. Under the settlement, Mr.   
   Trump’s lawyers also agreed to liquidate the Trump Foundation’s remaining   
   assets of more than $1.7 million and disburse them to those same   
   nonprofits, which have no connection to the president or his family.   
      
   The president wired payments directly to the organizations a few weeks   
   ago, but the payments were not made public until this week, an official in   
   the attorney’s office said.   
      
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   The nonprofit groups that received payments were the Army Emergency   
   Relief, the Children’s Aid Society, Citymeals on Wheels, Give an Hour,   
   Martha’s Table, the United Negro College Fund, the United Way of the   
   National Capital Area, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.   
   Each received a total of $476,140.01.   
      
   In a statement, Marc Mukasey and Alan Futerfas, the attorneys for the   
   foundation, said the attorney general “doesn’t want the media to focus on   
   the massive trial they lost today.”   
      
   “Our case was amicably resolved weeks ago,” the statement said. “The judge   
   commended both parties for the resolution. The legacy of the Trump   
   Foundation — which gave away many millions to those most in need at   
   virtually no cost — is secure.”   
      
      
      
   In a mid-November filing, the attorney general’s office requested that the   
   judge, Justice Saliann Scarpulla of State Supreme Court in Manhattan,   
   order Mr. Trump not to write off the payments as charitable contributions   
   in his tax filings, but the judge did not do so.   
      
   As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump, who at first dismissed the suit as a   
   political attack, made 19 detailed admissions, acknowledging, for example,   
   that the foundation had purchased the $10,000 portrait of himself that was   
   ultimately displayed at one of his Florida hotels.   
      
   He admitted to using the foundation’s money to settle obligations of some   
   of his for-profit companies, including a golf club in Westchester County,   
   N.Y., and Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida which he frequently   
   visits.   
      
   And he admitted that the foundation had given his presidential campaign   
   control over about $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a   
   veterans fund-raiser in Iowa in January 2016. Mr. Trump acknowledged the   
   fund-raiser was in fact a campaign event.   
      
   The Trump Foundation, which Mr. Trump founded in 1987, disbanded last   
   December after an investigation by Barbara Underwood, then-acting attorney   
   general of New York. Ms. Underwood’s office found “unlawful coordination   
   with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing,   
   and much more.”   
      
   It is illegal for charitable foundations to advance the self-interests of   
   their executives.   
      
   The investigation had been started by the former attorney general, Eric T.   
   Schneiderman, and was based on information first reported by The   
   Washington Post during the presidential campaign. Ms. James took over the   
   case when she was sworn into office in 2019.   
      
   As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump’s three children who were officers of   
   the foundation — Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — were   
   ordered to undergo mandatory training to ensure they do not engage in   
   similar misconduct in the future.   
      
   On Tuesday, the attorney general’s office confirmed the children had   
   undergone the training.   
      
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