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   From: LawrenceSolomon@trumpslaves.org   
      
   How the I.R.S. Could Punish Trump and His Foundation   
      
      
   By Jesse Drucker   
   June 14, 2018   
      
   The New York attorney general sued President Trump and his foundation on   
   Thursday. But his bigger problem might be with the Internal Revenue   
   Service.   
      
   The lawsuit accused Mr. Trump and three of his children of using the   
   Donald J. Trump Foundation, a nonprofit charity, for political and   
   business purposes, even though he signed federal tax returns swearing that   
   wasn’t happening. Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood referred her   
   findings to the I.R.S. for further investigation.   
      
   Any involvement of the I.R.S. puts in play a range of possibilities. The   
   agency has the power to bring civil penalties, and its investigation could   
   lead to federal criminal charges.   
      
   Similar behavior has prompted federal prosecutions, according to lawyers   
   who have worked on such cases.   
      
      
      
   In 2007, Vincent Fumo, then a powerful Democratic state senator in   
   Pennsylvania, was indicted by the Justice Department for misusing a   
   charity run by a former member of his government staff. A federal jury   
   convicted him. Mr. Fumo’s punishment: four years in prison.   
      
   The lawsuit by the state attorney general, filed in New York’s Supreme   
   Court, claims that Mr. Trump’s charitable foundation was used to help his   
   2016 campaign and to pay legal settlements involving his businesses. The   
   foundation was supposed to be solely for dispensing money to nonprofit   
   organizations and other activity in the public interest.   
      
   The suit seeks to dissolve the foundation and have its funds disbursed to   
   unnamed charities. The action did not seek criminal penalties against Mr.   
   Trump or his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, who are   
   among the foundation’s board members and are named as defendants in the   
   suit.   
      
   The Trump Organization — the foundation itself has no employees — said   
   that “virtually every dollar donated to the foundation went to worthy   
   causes, and helped any number of the most vulnerable among our citizens.”   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/business/trump-foundation-irs-attorney-   
   general.html   
      
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