Chief Defendant
Donald John Trump Sr. utter from his own “loser lips” of missing the good old
days of actually never physically being a direct party to the monetary tax
system, of defendant “United States of America et al” as such
RICO Monetary not
paying taxes total of $916 million in one year x 18 years = 16,488,000,000,.00
16.4 Billion Minimum of supporting his Chief Defendant” Donald John Trump Sr.,
The Trump Organization Trump Tower 725 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10022
Co-Defendant
The Eric Trump
Foundation (ETF) The Eric Trump Foundation, 725 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor, New
York, NY 10022, with Co-Defendant(s) Ivana Zelníčková, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka
Trump, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump, Melania Knauss Trump, and Barron Trump
collectively Herein having both Public and (RICO) “Hidden” “Monetary Foreign
Holdings, Assets, properties, Corporations, Business, Companies, Retails,
shops, import, export, stores, homes, cars, chattel, Armory Collections ...
Primary Weapon Auto Rifles, Pulse Rifles, Scout Rifles and Hand Cannons Special
to include military missile weapons, and support thereof ect… based in foregin
government Russian Federation, Syria, Iraq and Iran in that for each (RICO)
conspire committed and achieved to defraud “United States”as a whole which Defendant
Donald John Trump declared a
$916 million loss
on his newly uncovered 1995 tax returns — a loss that would allow him to avoid
paying federal income tax for up to 18 years“, added to his 16.4 Billion
Minimum Collectively here in January 1st 2000
– 2016 engaging in supporting
“Global Financing
of Terrorism” of The “Knight of The Klu Klux Klan”, and foregin government
Terrorism within the “United States of America”, past, present and future being
in defendant Donald John Trump Sr. illegally conducted business in Communist
Cuba in violation of Defendant American trade bans Gov. Abbott says he ran
Trump University out of Texas. Neither assertions are correct,
Abbott paints
himself as the consumers' advocate and protector. The documents show those
representations to be false," Owens told CNN. Defendant Trump (RICO)
committed to bribery of a “public official whom accepted donated $35,000 to the
successful gubernatorial campaign of then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott
three years after a probe into the university’s "possibly deceptive trade
practices" was dropped by his office when the university agreed to cease
its Texas operations.
Defendant Donald
Trump “personally pocketed $5m” from his Trump University “scam”, just in New
York (alone) stated by: New York’s attorney general, which (Plaintiffs)
Collectively affirm with -out fuss and false allegation said 5 Million U.S.
Dollars having been Defendant “Donald John Trump Sr. and Donald John Trump Jr.
“War Chest” funding for funding “Whites Supremacy World Wide Terrorism, and
Mainly “Treason” directed to undermined, undercut, at President Barack Obama
“Military Commander in Chief AGENDA” especially in (Syria) and (ISIS) as
described in the already filed complaint in Bob Casey Crooked Klansmen Strong
hold Federal Courthouse as (Plaintiffs) stated and still able to show addition
funds of approximately able to further show in addition to massive
million being collected off the usage of “Veterans Fraud Fundraiser still be
conducted as of this undersigned “Notary Seal Date”
Defendant Mr.
Trump confused the Trump Foundation with his own bank account because he
occasionally treated it like one. Co-Defendant Melania Trump used $20,000 of
foundation funds to buy a six-foot painting of Mr. Trump at a charity art
auction. Mr. Trump bid $12,000 in foundation money to win a football helmet
signed by quarterback Tim Tebow. These examples appear to violate IRS rules
against charity officials engaging in “self-dealing.”
Donald Trump and
Kids Named in $250M Tax Scam
Four Donald
Trump-licensed real-estate developments are at the center of a huge income tax
evasion scheme, according to allegations in a lawsuit unsealed Thursday
afternoon by a judge in Manhattan.
The presumptive
Republican nominee is not personally accused. He is described as a “material
witness” in the evasion of taxes on as much as $250 million in income.
According to the court papers, that includes $100 million in profits and $65
million in real-estate transfer taxes from a Manhattan high rise project
bearing his familiar name.
However, his
status may change, according to the lawyers who filed the lawsuit, Richard
Lerner and Frederick M. Oberlander, citing Trump’s testimony about Felix Sater,
a convicted stock swindler at the center of the alleged scheme.
Trump received
tens of millions of dollars in fees and partnership interests in one of the
four projects, the Trump Soho New York, a luxury high rise in lower Manhattan.
His son Donald Junior and his daughter Ivanka also were paid in fees and
partnership interests, the lawyers said, and are also material witnesses in the
case.
Trump and Sater
traveled extensively together and were photographed and interviewed in Denver
and Loveland, Colorado, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, and New York. The two Trump
children were also with Sater in Moscow, Alan Garten, the Trump Organization
general counsel, has said.
Trump has
testified about Sater in a Florida lawsuit accusing the two of them of fraud in
a failed high-rise project. Trump testified that he had a glancing knowledge of
Sater and would not recognize him if he were sitting in the room.
Sater controlled
an investment firm named Bayrock, with offices in Trump Tower, and sought to
develop branded Trump Tower luxury buildings in Moscow and other cities. Court
papers show his salary in 2006 was $7 million, but it alleges that was a
pittance compared to his real income.
Sater then moved
into the Trump Organization offices. He carried a business card, issued by the
Trump Organization, identifying him as a “senior adviser” to Trump.
The four
developments were all handled as partnerships. Partnerships are not taxed and
are rarely audited because the profits are supposed to be reported as going to
the partners personally. The lawsuit says the profits simply were not reported
when Sater and others took their partnership profits and other income from the
deals.
The state tax
fraud lawsuit is known as a qui tam case in which citizens file as private
attorneys general on behalf of the government. In effect Lerner and Oberlander
are acting as prosecutors in the alleged tax fraud.
Eric
Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general, learned of the case soon
after it was filed in state court last August and declined to intervene. His
office confirmed that stance Thursday after the lawsuit was unsealed.
The suit says
Sater and other defendants owe at least $7 million in New York state income
taxes, a sum that would be tripled if they prevail.
If the federal
government were to intervene the federal taxes would come to about $35 million.
The tax fraud
lawsuit included 212 pages of documents, among them a flow chart that the
plaintiff claims showed how the scheme worked. The lawsuit alleges the tax
fraud scheme as simple, telling the judge “there need be no fear of complexity,
for there is none.”
New York state
tax law closely aligns with federal tax law in defining income, deductions, and
taxes due.
The case was
unsealed after Sater filed an action in Israel against a rabbi who says he was
cheated in a $40 million stock swindle. That was enough to persuade a federal
judge to unseal another lawsuit against Sater, Bayrock, and others earlier in
July. And in turn that disclosure prompted the state Supreme Court (trial
court) judge in Manhattan to unseal the tax evasion lawsuit.
Sater secretly
pleaded guilty to the stock swindle in 1998. The $40 million fleeced from
investors went to him, the Genovese and Gambino crime families and others.
In 1998 Sater
pleaded guilty in federal court, but the plea was kept secret. Sater was
sentenced in secret in 2009 to probation and a $25,000 fine with no jail time
and no requirement to make restitution.
That was an
extraordinarily light sentence, especially given Sater’s violent past. In 1991
he admitted to shoving the broken stem of a margarita glass into a man’s face
and was sentenced to two years.
Court papers,
testimony by Trump and a book by one of Sater’s confederates—The Scorpion and
the Frog, “The True Story of One Man’s Fraudulent Rise and Fall on the Wall
Street of the Nineties”—all tell how after his arrest Sater became an operative
for the Central Intelligence Agency, supposedly buying missiles on their way to
terrorists, which may explain the light sentence.
As to Trump,
every president starting with Richard Nixon and major party candidate since has
made public some or all of their tax returns. He has not, even as Hillary
Clinton has released her complete tax returns going back more than three
decades.
Trump has
explained his refusal to make his income tax returns public by claiming that
the ones he has filed for 2012 and since are under routine audit. Mark Everson,
a former commissioner of Internal Revenue has said there is no reason to hold
the returns back, even assuming they are being audited.
He has offered no
explanation for not releasing his returns for 2011 and earlier, years on which
he has said the audits are closed.
Documents made
public by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission show that despite living a
lavish lifestyle, Trump did not pay income taxes in 1978, 1979, 1992, and 1994.
He also paid no income taxes in 1984, by far his most lucrative year in his
career to that point, according to state and city tax tribunal proceedings I
reported on previously.
Plaintiffs Negro
Slaves herein assert (RICO) involved in Republican
Governor Greg Abbott. He ended the case against Trump University, and then a
few years later received $35,000 in campaign contributions as his reward. All
told, Donald Trump was facing a settlement cost of $5,400,000, but
Texas
Republican Greg Abbott let him off the hook with nothing more than a promise to
leave Texas, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the costs of investigating, and
leaving scammed students in the lurch.
State prosecutors
then led by Republican Greg Abbott spent eight long months hot in pursuit of
the fake education scheme pushed by Trump’s “instructors” at hotel ballrooms.
On January 6th, 2010 prosecutors sent an ominous “Civil Investigative Demand”
letter to Trump University.
Then, in May 2010
the State of Texas’ attorneys wanted to settle with Trump for full refunds of
not only the $3.7 million dollars going back to his scammed students but also
the $1.7 million in fines and legal costs that his victims racked up in their
pursuit of justice.
Texas prosecutors
built their case in writing, and cited the numerous legal violations in a memo,
and they also wrote this ominous conclusion about Donald Trump’s potential
legal defenses for operating his racket:
We believe there
is a possibility that Trump University will file for bankruptcy, primarily to
stay both the California federal court class action and this case.Today, both
the Republican Governor and current Attorney General of Texas both want to keep
their actions secret.
Current Texas
Attorney General Republican Ken Paxton, who’s indicted and facing securities
fraud charges, filed a cease and desist letter against the former official in
his office for releasing public records showing the letters sent demanding
information from Trump’s scam university.
But former
Deputy Chief Texas AG John Owens spilled the beans anyway, on how advanced and
seemingly airtight the state’s case against Donald Trump’s person and Trump
University really was in Texas.
Under the Texas
Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, the state’s attorney has
the right to request a copy of advertising documents, and what’s being given to
the public for inspection, including the now infamous “Playbooks” and
organizational charts, contracts, etc. Trump U was ordered retain all records
for inspection and deliver by
February 1st,
2010.Newly unsealed court records show that the scam’s “playbook” instructed
high pressure pitchmen to use shame in their interrogation of “prospects” and
“clients” who were just marks and not actually considered “students” at the
Trump
University. The Texas authorities came to believe Trump University broke the
state law saying that:
Defendants
falsely assert at these “free workshops” that the classes are approved
continuing education· credit for realtors. The Texas Real Estate Commission has
not approved any Trump University courses for continuing education credit.
Defendant
Trump University is also not an accredited institution of higher learning and
does not have a certificate of authority to use the term “University” in the
state of Texas in violation of TEX. EDUC. CODE§ 6.313.
Trump University
has also not complied with Secretary of State registration or tax requirements
necessary to do business in Texas or paid sales tax on any of their sales.
There have been
approximately 57 “free” Trump U workshops conducted in Texas, with
approximately 50-100 attendees per workshop, while this
Racket involving
(USA) Military Services Veterans Nation-wide, defendant “Donald John Trump Sr.
(RICO) 2016 while currently engaging with constituents whom favor and
prosperity off the instate of “Nazi and KKK” with Next President of the (USA)…?
Trump being there
supreme leader while rioting since physical “Live” ongoing since the Death of
“President Abe Lincoln in murderous Civil War of 1865 – 2016 (July) against the
“Nigger Slaves” herein
he did so using
the Trump Foundation—which, according to FEC and IRS rules, should not be
engaged (RICO) plus rioting directed at Plaintiffs Negro Slaves 44.5 Million
plus
Requesting
hearing being held for Negro Slaves Veterans of United States of America full
enjoyment of a Said Chief Defendant “Donald John Trump Sr. herein
Being held to a
"Permanent" forever banned, prohibit, forbid, disallow, and outlaw,
as to fundraising on behalf of all DNA Negro Plaintiff(s) (USA) Veterans and
all others similarly the same Veteran status and active duty ….
All other relief
being fair, fully before the court in “Law and equity” and expedited hearing so
heard before Justice with exhibit(s) filed in support thereof
It was 2010, and
Trump was being honored by a charity — the Palm Beach Police Foundation — for
his “selfless support” of its cause.
His support did
not include any of his own money.
Instead, Trump
had found a way to give away somebody else’s money and claim the credit for
himself.
Trump had earlier
gone to a charity in New Jersey — the Charles Evans Foundation, named for a
deceased businessman — and asked for a donation. Trump said he was raising
money for the Palm Beach Police Foundation.
The Evans
Foundation said yes. In 2009 and 2010, it gave a total of $150,000 to the
Donald J. Trump Foundation, a small charity that the Republican presidential
nominee founded in 1987.
Then, Trump’s
foundation turned around and made donations to the police group in South
Florida. In those years, the Trump Foundation’s gifts totaled $150,000.
Trump had
effectively turned the Evans Foundation’s gifts intohis own gifts, without
adding any money of his own.
On the night that
he won the Palm Tree Award for his philanthropy, Trump may have actually made
money. The gala was held at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and the police
foundation paid to rent the room. It’s unclear how much was paid in 2010, but
the police foundation reported in its tax filings that it rented Mar-a-Lago in
2014 for $276,463.
The Donald J.
Trump Foundation is not like other charities. An investigation of the
foundation — including examinations of 17 years of tax filings and interviews
with more than 200 individuals or groups listed as donors or beneficiaries —
found that it collects and spends money in a very unusual manner.
For one thing,
nearly all of its money comes from people other than Trump. In tax records, the
last gift from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been
other people’s money — an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for
a family foundation.
Trump then takes
that money and generally does with it as he pleases. In many cases, he passes
it on to other charities, which often are under the impression that it is
Trump’s own money.
In two cases, he
has used money from his charity to buy himself a gift. In one of those cases —
not previously reported — Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable
purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself.
Money from the
Trump Foundation has also been used for political purposes, which is against
the law. The Washington Post reported this month that Trump paid a penalty this
year to the Internal Revenue Service for a 2013 donation in which the
foundation gave $25,000 to a campaign group affiliated with Florida Attorney
General Pamela Bondi (R).
Trump’s
foundation appears to have repeatedly broken IRS rules, which require nonprofit
groups to file accurate paperwork. In five cases, the Trump Foundation told the
IRS that it had given a gift to a charity whose leaders told The Post that they
had never received it. In two other cases, companies listed as donors to the
Trump Foundation told The Post that those listings were incorrect.
[Trump pays IRS a
penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney
general]
Last week, The
Post submitted a detailed list of questions about the Trump Foundation to
Trump’s campaign. Officials with the campaign declined to comment.
Trump and his
Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have both been criticized during their
campaigns for activities related to their foundations.
Critics have
charged that the giant Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which
employs more than 2,000 people and spends about a quarter of a billion dollars
a year, has served as a way for businesses and powerful figures across the
world to curry favor with one of America’s most powerful families. The Clinton
Foundation has also been credited by supporters and critics alike for its
charitable efforts.
[Foundation controversy
forces Clinton campaign to play defense]
Trump has claimed
that he gives generously to charity from his own pocket: “I don’t have to give
you records,” he told The Post earlier this year, “but I’ve given millions
away.” Efforts to verify those gifts have not succeeded, and Trump has refused
to release his tax returns, which would show his charitable giving.
That leaves the
Trump Foundation as the best window into the GOP nominee’s philanthropy.
In the past
several days, questions about Trump’s foundation have focused on the gift to
Bondi’s group in 2013. At the time the money arrived, Bondi’s office was
considering whether to launch an investigation into allegations of fraud by
Trump University — accusations that Trump denies.
The investigation
never started. Aides to Bondi and Trump say the gift and the case were
unrelated. But Democrats have seized on what they see as a clear example of
political influence improperly funded by Trump’s charity.
“The foundation
was being used basically to promote a moneymaking fraudulent venture of Donald
Trump’s. That’s not what charities are supposed to do,” Virginia Sen. Tim
Kaine, Clinton’s running mate, said Friday. “I hope there’s a significant
effort to get to the bottom of it and find out whether this is the end.”
A threadbare
operation
Trump started his
foundation in 1987 with a narrow purpose: to give away some of the proceeds
from his book “The Art of the Deal.”
Nearly three
decades later, the Trump Foundation is still a threadbare, skeletal operation.
The most money it
has ever reported having was $3.2 million at the end of 2009. At last
count, that total had shrunk to $1.3 million. By comparison, Oprah Winfrey
— who is worth $1.5 billion less than Trump, according to a Forbes
magazine estimate — has a foundation with $242 million in the bank. At the
end of 2014, the Clinton Foundation had $440 million in assets.
In a few cases,
Trump seemed to solicit donations only to immediately give them away. But his
foundation has also received a handful of bigger donations — including
$5 million from professional-wrestling executives Vince and Linda McMahon
— that Trump handed out a little at a time.
The foundation
has no paid staffers. It has an unpaid board consisting of four Trumps —
Donald, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. — and one Trump Organization employee.
In 2014, at last
report, each said they worked a half-hour a week.
The Trump
Foundation still gives out small, scattered gifts — which seem driven by the
demands of Trump’s businesses and social life, rather than by a desire to
support
charitable causes, The foundation makes a few dozen donations a year, usually
in amounts from $1,000 to $50,000. It gives to charities that rent Trump’s
ballrooms. It gives to charities whose leaders buttonholed Trump on the golf
course (and then try, in vain, to get him to offer a repeat donation the next
year).
It even gives in
situations in which Trump publicly put himself on the hook for a donation — as
when he promised a gift “out of my wallet” on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
The Trump Foundation paid off most of those on-air promises. A TV production
company paid others. The Post could find no instance in which a celebrity’s
charity got a gift from Trump’s own wallet.
Another time,
Trump went on TV’s “Extra” for a contest called “Trump pays your bills!”
A professional
spray-tanner won. The Trump Foundation paid her bills,
About 10 years
ago, the Trump Foundation underwent a major change — although it was invisible
to those who received its gifts.
The checks still
had Trump’s name on them.
Behind the
scenes, he was transforming the foundation from a standard-issue rich person’s
philanthropy into a charity that allowed a rich man to be philanthropic for
free.
Experts on
charity said they had rarely seen anything like it.
“Our common
understanding of charity is you give something of yourself to help somebody
else. It’s not something that you raise money from one side to spend it on the
other,” said Leslie Lenkowsky, the former head of the Corporation for National
and Community Service, and a professor studying philanthropy at Indiana
University.
By that
definition, was Trump engaging in charity?
No, Lenkowsky
said.
“It’s a deal,” he
said, an arrangement worked out for maximum benefit at minimum sacrifice.
In the Trump
Foundation’s early days, between 1987 and 2006, Trump actually was its primary
donor. Over that span, Trump gave his own foundation a total of
$5.4 million. But he was giving it away as fast as he put it in, and by
the start of 2007, the foundation’s assets had dropped to $4,238.
Then, Trump made
a change.
First, he stopped
giving his own money.
His contribution
shrank to $35,000 in 2007.
Then to $30,000
in 2008.
Then to $0.
At the same time,
Trump’s foundation began to fill with money from other people.
But in many other
cases, his biggest donors have not wanted to say why they gave their own money,
when Trump was giving none of his.
“I don’t have
time for this. Thank you,” said Richard Ebers, a ticket broker in New York City
who has given the Trump Foundation $1.9 million since 2011.
“No. No. No. I’m
not going to comment on anything. I’m not answering any of your questions,”
said John Stark, the chief executive of a carpet company that has donated
$64,000 over the years.
Vince and Linda
McMahon declined to comment.
So did
NBCUniversal, which donated $500,000 in 2012. Its gift more than covered the
“personal” donations that Trump offered at dramatic moments on “The Celebrity
Apprentice” — then paid for out of the Trump Foundation.
Trump’s donations
to the Palm Beach Police Foundation offered a stark example of Trump turning
somebody else’s gift into his own charity.
Tax experts said
they had rarely heard of anything like what Trump had done, converting another
donor’s gift into his own.
“I question
whether it’s ethical. It’s certainly misleading. But I think it’s legal,
because you would think that the other foundation that’s . . . being taken
advantage of would look out for their own interests,” said Rosemary E. Fei, an
attorney in San Francisco who has advised hundreds of small foundations.
“That’s their decision to let him do that.”
After three
years, the Charles Evans Foundation stopped using Trump as a middleman.
“We realized we
don’t need to do it through a pass-through,” said Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, the
widow of Charles Evans and a trustee of the now-defunct foundation.
In 2012, the
Charles Evans Foundation stopped giving money to the Trump Foundation.
In 2013,
according to tax records, the Trump Foundation stopped giving to the Palm Beach
Police Foundation.
The police group,
which gave Trump the award, did not know that Trump’s money had come from
somebody else’s pocket. It could not explain why he gave in some years but not
others — or why he gave in the amounts he did.
“He’s the
unpredictable guy, right?” said John F. Scarpa, the Palm Beach Police
Foundation’s president, before The Post informed him about how Trump got the
money. He said Trump’s giving wasn’t the only reason he got the award. He also
could be counted on to draw a crowd to the group’s annual event. The amount
paid to Trump’s club was first reported by BuzzFeed.
The police group
still holds its galas at Mar-a-Lago.
Acts of
‘self-dealing’
At the same time
that it began to rely on other people’s money, the Trump Foundation sometimes
appeared to flout IRS rules by purchasing things that seemed to benefit only
Trump.
In 2007, for
instance, Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a benefit for a children’s
charity held at Mar-a-Lago. The night’s entertainment was Michael Israel, who
bills himself as “the original speed painter.” His frenetic act involved
painting giant portraits in five to seven minutes — then auctioning off the art
he’d just created.
He painted Trump.
Melania Trump bid
$10,000.
Nobody tried to
outbid her.
“The auctioneer
was just pretty bold, so he said, ‘You know what just happened: When you
started bidding, nobody’s going to bid against you, and I think it’s only fair
that you double the bid,’ ” Israel said in an interview last week.
Melania Trump
increased her bid to $20,000.
“I understand it
went to one of his golf courses,” Israel said of the painting.
The Trump
Foundation paid the $20,000, according to the charity that held the benefit.
Something similar
happened in 2012, when Trump himself won an auction for a football helmet autographed
by football player Tim Tebow, then a quarterback with the Denver Broncos.
The winning bid
was $12,000. As The Post reported in July, the Trump Foundation paid.
IRS rules
generally prohibit acts of “self-dealing,” in which a charity’s leaders use the
nonprofit group’s money to buy things for themselves.
In both years,
IRS forms asked whether the foundation had broken those rules: Had it
“furnish[ed] goods, services or facilities” to Trump or another of its
officers?
In both years,
the Trump Foundation checked “no.”
Tax experts said
Trump could have avoided violating the self-dealing rules if he gave the helmet
and the painting to other charities instead of keeping them. Trump’s staffers
have not said where the two items are now.
The IRS penalties
for acts of “self-dealing” can include penalty taxes, both on charities and on
their leaders as individuals.
In other cases,
the Trump Foundation’s tax filings appeared to include listings that were
incorrect.
The most
prominent example is the improper political donation to the group affiliated
with Bondi, the Florida attorney general, in 2013. In that case, Trump’s
staffers said a series of errors resulted in the payment being made — and then
hidden from the IRS.
First, Trump
officials said, when the request came down to cut a check to the Bondi group, a
Trump Organization clerk followed internal protocol and consulted a book with
the names of known charities.
The name of the
pro-Bondi group is “And Justice for All.” Trump’s staffer saw that name in the
book, and — mistakenly — cut the check from the Trump Foundation. The group in
the book was an entirely different charity in Utah, unrelated to Bondi’s group
in Florida.
Somehow, the
money got to Florida anyway.
Then, Trump’s
staffers said, the foundation’s accounting firm made another mistake: It told
the IRS that the $25,000 had gone to a third charity, based in Kansas, called
Justice for All. In reality, the Kansas group got no money.
“That was just a
complete mess-up on names. Anything that could go wrong did go wrong,” Jeffrey
McConney, the Trump Organization’s controller, told The Post last week. After
The Post pointed out these errors in the spring, Trump paid a $2,500 penalty
tax.
Donations not
received
In four other
cases, The Post found charities that said they never received donations that
the Trump Foundation said it gave them.
The amounts were
small: $10,000 in 2008, $5,000 in 2010, $10,000 in 2012. Most of the charities
had no idea that Trump had said he had given them money.
One did.
This January, the
phone rang at a tiny charity in White River Junction, Vt., called Friends of
Veterans. This was just after Trump had held a televised fundraiser for
veterans in Iowa, raising more than $5 million.
The man on the
phone was a Trump staffer who was selecting charities that would receive the
newly raised money. He said the Vermont group was already on Trump’s list,
because the Trump Foundation had given it $1,000 in 2013.
“I don’t remember
a donation from the Trump Foundation,” said Larry Daigle, the group’s
president, who was a helicopter gunner with the Army during the Vietnam War.
“The guy seemed pretty surprised about this.”
The man went away
from the phone. He came back.
Was Daigle sure?
He was.
The man thanked
him. He hung up. Daigle waited — hopes raised — for the Trump people to call
back.
“Oh, my God, do
you know how many homeless veterans I could help?” Daigle told The Post this
spring, while he was waiting.
Trump gave away
the rest of the veterans money in late May.
Daigle’s group
got none of it.
[Media scrutiny
over charitable donations to veterans riles up Trump]
In two other
cases, the Trump Foundation reported to the IRS that it had received donations
from two companies that have denied making such gifts. In 2013, for instance,
the Trump Foundation said it had received a $100,000 donation from the Clancy
Law Firm, whose offices are in a Trump-owned building on Wall Street.
“That’s
incorrect,” said Donna Clancy, the firm’s founder, when The Post called. “I’m
not answering any questions.”She hung up and did not respond to requests for
comment afterward.
“All of these
things show that the [Trump] foundation is run in a less-than-ideal manner. But
that’s not at all unusual for small, private foundations, especially those run
by a family,” said Brett Kappel, a Washington attorney who advises tax-exempt
organizations. “Usually, you have an accounting firm that has access to the
bank statements, and they’re the ones who find these errors and correct them.”
The Trump
Foundation’s accountants are at WeiserMazars, a New York-based firm. The Post
sent them a detailed list of questions, asking them to explain these possible
errors.
The firm declined
to comment, Negro Plaintiff Slaves assert For months, The Washington Post has
been looking for evidence to back up a key claim Donald Trump makes about
himself: that, in recent years, he has given millions of dollars to charity out
of his own pocket. There is no evidence of that in the files of Trump's
nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. And Trump has not released his tax
returns, which would detail his recent charitable giving.
In an effort to
find proof of Trump's personal giving,
The Post has
contacted more than 400 charities with some ties to the GOP nominee. Some got
money from the Trump Foundation . In other cases, Trump had a personal
connection to the charity or its leaders . Some were charities that DonorSearch
database records indicated he might have given to.
A variety of
other reasons included media mentions, gala attendance, or involvement with Trump's
TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."
So far, The
Post's search has turned up little. Between 2008 and this May — when Trump made
good on a pledge to give $1 million to a veterans' group — its search has
identified just one personal gift from Trump's own pocket.
If you have any
information about a charitable gift given by Donald Trump, please email
fahrenthold@washpost.com.
Charity name
Last donation
9/11 Museum
Never
Trump made a
$100,000 donation from his foundation to this museum just before the New York
GOP primary. He has never given his own money.
A Better Chance
No Response
Abilis
No response
Trump's nephew
Fred Trump III is a major fundraiser for this Connecticut charity.
Achilles International Foundation
Never
ACLU Foundation of Florida -- Broward
Never
When this group
honored a lawyer who is friends with Trump, he sent $325 from his foundation.
Trump has never given the group his own money.
AHRC NYC
Never
AIDS Project Los Angeles
Never
AIDS Service Center NYC
Never
AIPAC Tomorrow Campaign
Never
Trump spoke to
the influential pro-Israel lobbying group this year.
Algemeiner Journal
Never
This news outlet,
which writes about Israel and Jewish issues around the world, gave Trump a
"Liberty Award" at their annual gala. They were hopeful he would give
a donation in return. He did not. Trump gave $0 from his foundation, and $0
from his own pocket.
All Faiths Restoration and Beautification
Program
Records
Unavailable
This is the
cemetery where Trump's parents, Fred and Mary, are buried. Read more.
Alliance for Lupus Research
No Comment
ALS Association
No Comment
In 2014, Trump
made an Ice Bucket Challenge video in which two Miss Universe contestants
drenched him with Trump-branded water. These videos were made as part of a
fundraiser for the ALS Association. Trump's foundation gave $0 to the ALS
Association that year. Did Trump give his own money? The association said it
could not release that information without Trump's permission. Read more.
Alzheimer's Association
Never
Alzheimer's Community Care
Never
American Associates of Ben-Gurion University
Never
American Australian Association
No Comment
American Cancer Society
No Comment
American Conservative Union Foundation
Never
This is the group
that puts on CPAC, the annual mega-conference of conservatives.
American Diabetes Association
Never
American Foundation for AIDS Research
Never
American Friends of Jordan River Village
No comment
American Friends of Magen David Adom
Never
American Friends of the Jaffa Institute
Never
American Heart Association
No Comment
American Jewish Committee
2000 (Amount Not
Disclosed)
American Jewish Historical Society
Never
American Red Cross
No Comment
American Skin Association
No Comment
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals
No response
American Spectator Foundation
Never
American Turkish Society
Never
Trump was
"co-chair" of this group's 2012 gala. He gave $0.
American-Italian Cancer Foundation
Never
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
No response
Americares
No Comment
Andrew Glover Youth Program
Never
ANNIKA Foundation
No Response
Anti-Defamation League
Never
Apollo Theater Foundation
Never
Arnold Palmer Medical Center Foundation
Never
Art for Life Foundation
Never
ASPCA
No Comment
Autism Project of Palm Beach County
No response
Autism Speaks
Never
Bailey Baio Angel Foundation
No Comment
Actor Scott Baio,
the charity's founder, spoke at the Republican convention.
Baseball Assistance Team
Never
Beauvoir/Mississippi Sons of Confederate
Veterans
No response
Best Buddies
Never
Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
No Comment
This is the
church where Trump got married to his wife, Melania, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Big Apple Association
No response
Big Dog Ranch Rescue
Never
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
No Comment
Border Patrol Foundation
Never
Boston Police Foundation
Never
Boy Scouts
No Comment
Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County
No Comment
Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County
Never
One of Trump's
golf courses in Florida is the site of a tournament benefitting this group on
the day before the election.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Stamford
No response
Boys Club of New York
No Comment
Boys Town of Italy
No response
Brain and Behavior Foundation (NARSAD Research
Institute)
Never
Brent Shapiro Foundation for Alcohol and Drug
Awareness
Never
Brewster Academy
No response
Broadcasters Foundation of America
Never
Broadway Cares
Never
Bronx County Historical Society
No response
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Never
Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services
No response
Brooklyn Hospital Center Foundation
Never
Buckley School
No Response
Buoniconti Foundation/Miami Project
No Comment
Busey Foundation for Children's Kawasaki
Disease
Never
Calcutta Kids
Never
Cancer Research Institute
Never
Caring for Military Families/Elizabeth Dole
Foundation
Never
Caron Renaissance
No Comment
Carson Scholars Fund
No Comment
In 2013, Trump
was the "honorary chairman" of an event that benefited this charity,
co-founded by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
CASA New Orleans
Never
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New
York
No Response
Catholic Schools Foundation
No response
Cedars-Sinai, Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer
Program
Never
Celebrity Fight Night Foundation
Never
Central Iowa Shelter
Never
Central Park Conservancy
No Comment
Chabad of East Boca Raton
Never
Chabad of Southampton
No response
Chai Lifeline
Never
Chapin School
No Comment
Charity:Water
No Comment
Chicago Police Memorial Foundation
Never
In 2007, Trump
told the IRS he'd given this group $5,000. In 2009, he told the IRS he'd taken
it back. The Chicago charity says it never received a check in the first place.
Child Mind Institute
Never
Children's Aid Society
No response
Children's Hospital Foundation
No Comment
Children's Medical Center, Omaha
Never
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Never
Children's Place at Home Safe
Never
Chris Evert Charities
No response
Citizens Against Government Waste
Never
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
Never
In 2012, Trump
called in to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to pledge $100,000 as part of a
fundraiser led by David Axelrod, President Obama's longtime adviser. Axelrod
had promised to shave his moustache if he could raise $1 million for the cause.
Trump gave the money from his foundation, and gave $0 of his own.
Citizens United Foundation
No Comment
City Parks Foundation
No Comment
Citymeals on Wheels
No Comment
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Never
Coast Guard Foundation
Never
College of Lake County (Ill.)
No Comment
Trump donated an
autograph for one of the college's fundraiser auctions.
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory
No Comment
Columbia University Medical Center
No Comment
Columbus Citizens Foundation
No response
Comic Relief
Never
Community Foundation of West Chester-Liberty
Never
This is a
hometown charity of former House speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), a golfing
buddy of Trump's. Boehner had mentioned the charity to Trump, and the mogul
gave $5,000 from his foundation in 2013. He gave $0 of his own.
Community Health Africa a Policy Solution
Never
Comprehensive Autism Medical Assessment and
Treatment Center of N.J.
Never
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
No Comment
Crossroads Foundation (Cleveland)
Never
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Never
D.C. Preservation League
Never
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Never
Dana-Farber Cancer Center
Never
Darryl Strawberry Ministries
No Response
Disabled Veterans' Life Memorial (DAV)
Never
Dominic Durden Memorial Scholarship
Never
Donald J. Trump Foundation
2008 ($30,000)
Trump set up this
charity in the late 1980s, and it originally served as a vehicle to give his
own money away. In more recent years, the money in the charity has come
primarily from others.
Drumthwacket Foundation
Never
This charity
maintains the historic New Jersey governor's mansion. Trump gave $40,000 from
his foundation but nothing from himself. The Huffington Post reported that the
foundation gifts came at a time when Trump was seeking state permission to
build a private cemetery on a fairway at a course he owned in New Jersey. Read
more.
Dwyer High School Band (Palm Beach Gardens,
Fla.)
No response
Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
Never
Trump was invited
to speak at an event in 2014 and paid for a table with $6,000 from his
foundation. He has given $0 of his own.
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Never
enCourage Kids Foundation
Never
Entertainment Industry Foundation/National
Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance
No response
Eric Trump Foundation
Records
Unavailable
This charity is
run by one of Trump's sons. Eric Trump first told The Post that his father had
given "hundreds of thousands" to his charity. Then, he said he
couldn't recall one specific instance where his father gave anything. Read
more.
Eta Pi Chapter Foundation
No response
Everglades Foundation
Never
Family Leader Foundation
No Comment
Fashion Footwear Charitable Foundation
Never
FDNY Foundation
2008 ($5,000)
Ferguson Library Foundation
Never
First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica (Queens)
No Response
Trump's home
church.
Fisher House
Never
Florida Architecture Foundation
Never
Florida Keys Reef Relief
No response
Food for the Poor
Never
Trump was named
the "national honorary chairman" of this charity's 2015 gala. Trump
donated some Eric Trump-branded wine and made a brief appearance. He gave $0 in
cash.
Fordham University
No Comment
Trump himself
attended Fordham before studying business at the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Foundation for Long Island State Parks
No Response
Fresh Air Fund
2008 (Not
Disclosed)
Friends of FDR and Donald J. Trump State Parks
Never
This volunteer
group is dedicated to a New York state park, located on land that Trump donated
after he struggled to get approvals for a golf course.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
1997 (Not
Disclosed)
This group
provides welfare programs for Israeli military personnel. At a fundraiser in
2007, Trump promised to give $250,000 to the group. But he never paid. Another
— unnamed — person paid in his stead. Read more.
Friends of Veterans (Vermont)
Never
Friends of Veterans (West Palm Beach)
Never
Friends of Westchester County Parks
Never
In his most
recent book, Trump notes that he got a "Green Space" award from this
group. He was honored for a donation of land to the state of New York. He has
never given any money to this group, from his foundation or from his own
pocket.
Friendship Circle
No Comment
Fund for Public Schools (NYC)
No Response
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Never
Generation Rescue
Never
Georgetown University
Never
Georgetown University Medical Center
Never
German-American Hall of Fame
Never
Trump was
inducted into this Hall of Fame in 2013, joining Dwight Eisenhower and
Siegfried and Roy. The event was held at Trump Tower, so the Hall of Fame paid
Trump more than $20,000 for the hall. Trump donated $1,000 from his foundation
and nothing from his own pocket.
GirlUp
Never
The Trump
Organization's website lists this charity — which helps girls in developing
countries — as a personal cause of Ivanka Trump, Trump's daughter. Donald Trump
has never given any money to it, either from his foundation or from his own
pocket.
Give A Smile to a Child
No response
Giving Back Fund
Never
Global Medical Relief Fund
Never
GLSEN
Never
God's Love We Deliver
No Comment
Golf Pros Beating Cancer
No comment
Graham Windham
No response
Grant Ronnebeck Foundation
No response
Green Beret Foundation
No Response
Greenwell Springs Baptist, La.
No Response
Trump promised a
$100,000 donation to this church, to aid flood-relief efforts. As of Wednesday,
8/24, the money had not yet been paid. Read more.
Gucci Foundation
Not Since at
Least 2008
Trump donated
$107,500 from his foundation in 2008. Buzzfeed reported that this may have been
to pay for a trip to Paris, which Trump bought at a charity auction. Read more.
Guggenheim Museum
No response
Guild Hall
No Comment
In 2013, reports
indicated that Trump bought a portrait of himself and the artist promised to
donate proceeds to Guild Hall. The artist and the center declined to comment.
Gurwin Jewish Healthcare
Never
Habitat for Humanity International
No Comment
Trump bid $5,000
for a print of actor Rob Lowe's hands at a 2011 charity auction. But the
charity wouldn't say if the money came from Trump or his foundation.
Hale House
Never
Trump's name is
on a plaque outside the former site of this Harlem charity, which cared for
children who were born HIV-positive or addicted to drugs. His gift was made in
1992 and was paid by one of his Atlantic City casinos — which, at that point,
was just out of bankruptcy and half-owned by banks. Read more.
Harry Hurley in the Morning Golf Open
Never
Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation
No comment
Health Care for the Homeless
Never
Trump gave $5,000
from the Trump Foundation to this group in 2010, as a wedding present for
friends who were getting married — and had asked for donations to this charity,
in lieu of gifts.
Heckscher Foundation/Take the Field
No Response
Heroes to Heroes
Never
Hill School
No Comment
Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Never
In his latest
book, Trump says he was honored by this group — but the award was for his work
in restoring the Mar-a-Lago club, one of Trump's money-making businesses. He has
never given any money to this group, from his foundation or from his own
pocket.
HollyRod Foundation
No Response
Homes for the Homeless
Never
Hope for Depression Research Foundation
No response
Hope House Ministries (Port Jefferson, N.Y.)
No Response
Hospice of Palm Beach County
No response
Hospital for Special Surgery
No Comment
Hurricane Sandy N.J. Relief Fund
Never
At the Republican
convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Trump had donated to a
Sandy charity run by Christie's wife. But he didn't. Christie's spokesman said
the governor "misspoke." Read more.
Independence Fund
Never
Indiana Golf Foundation
Never
Indiana University
No Comment
Inner-City Foundation for Charity
2002
Inner-City Scholarship Fund
Never
Institute of Jewish Humanities
No response
International Society of Palm Beach
Never
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
2005 (Not
Disclosed)
Intrepid Museum Foundation
2002
Israel Cancer Research Fund
Never
It Happened to Alexa Foundation
Never
Trump was the
"honorary chairman" of a 2011 gala fundraiser for this charity, which
helps victims of sexual assault. Although that title often carries an
expectation of charitable donations, Trump gave nothing that year, from himself
or his foundation
Jaden's Ladder
Never
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
No Comment
This medical
center is the site of Trump Pavilion, a nursing home that was named after
Trump's parents in the 1970s. Trump's foundation has never donated to it, but
the medical center declined to say if Trump had ever given personally.
James W. Foley Legacy Foundation
No Response
A memorial
foundation for a journalist killed by the Islamic State. Trump spoke at a New
Hampshire banquet where Foley was honored, then pledged a $25,000 donation.
Jersey City Museum
No response
Jewish Community Relations Council of NYC
No response
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Not since at
least 2000
Jewish Guild Healthcare
Never
Jewish National Fund
No Comment
Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation
No Comment
John A. Moran Eye Center
Never
Justice For All
Never
Trump's
foundation erroneously listed a donation to this Kansas-based group on its tax
filings. That mistake happened to mask another donation that violated IRS
rules: a gift to And Justice for All, a similarly-named political group aligned
with Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi (R). At the time of that political
gift, Bondi was considering whether to pursue an investigation of Trump
University. The Trump Foundation blamed both mistakes--the illegal donation,
and the tax filing that hid it from the IRS--on separate clerical errors. Read
more.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
No Comment
K9s for Warriors
Never
Kaleida Health Foundation
Never
Kamp Kizzy
No Comment
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Never
Kevin Guest House
Never
This is a gift by
Dr. Donald L. "Skip" Trump, an oncologist, whose donations I found by
accident while searching for Donald J. Trump's.
KIND Fund, UNICEF
Never
Earlier this
year, Trump sent a check from his foundation to MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell,
made out to a charity that O'Donnell supports. The charity helps provide desks
to schoolchildren in Malawi. O'Donnell said the check had been made out incorrectly,
so he couldn't accept it. Trump never sent another check, made out the right
way. Read more.
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Never
This arts center
in West Palm Beach, Fla., has a seat named after Trump — the result of a 1989
donation from the Trump Foundation. Read more.
Labyrinth Theater Company
Never
Lance Armstrong Foundation
No response
LaSalle Academy
No Comment
Latino Commission on AIDS
Never
Leaders in Furthering Education
No Comment
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
No Comment
Liberty University
Never
Jerry Falwell
Jr., Liberty's president, has been a vocal supporter of Trump during this
campaign.
Lincoln Center
Not Since at
Least 2006
Little Baby Face Foundation
Never
Lone Survivor Foundation
Never
Marcus Luttrell,
the former Navy SEAL who founded this veterans' charity, spoke at the
Republican National Convention this year.
Loudoun Arts Council
Never
Louisana Flood Relief Fund
Never
Before Trump
visited Louisiana to tour flooded areas, the state's governor suggested that
Trump make a "sizable donation" to this fund, run by the Baton Rouge
Area Foundation. Trump gave nothing, a spokeswoman said. Read more.
Lubavitch Youth Organization
Never
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Never
Maestro Cares
No Response
Magic Johnson Foundation
Never
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Never
Make-a-Wish of Southern Florida
No response
March of Dimes
No Comment
Mariano Rivera Foundation
No response
Marine Corps — Law Enforcement Foundation
2016 ($1 million)
In January, at a
fundraiser for veterans' charities in Iowa, Trump said he had given $1 million
from his own pocket. He did not actually give the money until four months
later, when — under pressure from the media — Trump gave all $1 million to this
charity, which helps the families of fallen Marines and federal officers. When
asked if he had given the money because of media pressure, Trump called this
reporter a "nasty guy." Read more.
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation
Never
Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance
Never
Martin B. Greenberg Foundation
Never
In 2012, Trump
made a $158,000 donation from the foundation to this small charity. It appears
to be the result of a legal dispute between Greenberg and one of Trump's golf
courses, which began when Greenberg was denied a hole-in-one prize at a
tournament. Greenberg said that Trump's staff had made the hole too short,
which resulted in his hole-in-one being disqualified. This donation was made on
the day that Trump's course and Greenberg informed the court they had settled
their case. Read more.
Massachusetts General Hospital
No comment
Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City
Not since at
least 2004
A city-run fund
that helped New York City's recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
Metropolitan Golf Association
No Comment
Metropolitan Museum of Art
No Comment
Metropolitan Opera
No Comment
Michael J. Fox Foundation
Never
Mill River Collaborative
Never
Montefiore Foundation
Never
MorseLife Foundation
No Response
Mourning Family Foundation
No Comment
Mt. Sinai Children's Center Foundation
No Comment
Muscular Dystrophy Association
No Comment
Museum of Jewish Heritage
2003
N.Y. Blood Center
No Comment
N.Y. Historical Society
Never
N.Y. Junior Tennis
Never
N.Y. Landmarks Conservancy
1992 ($1,000)
N.Y. Military Academy
No Comment
Donald Trump
attended high school here. He has donated more than $30,000 from his Donald J.
Trump Foundation. The school declined to comment about any personal gifts.
N.Y. Police & Fire Widows' and Children's
Benefit Fund
No Comment
During the
Republican National Convention, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said that
Trump had given donations to the families of fallen police and firefighters.
This is New York's main charity to benefit those families.
N.Y. Rescue Workers Detox Project
No Response
N.Y. Shakespeare Festival
No response
N.Y. State Adopt-A-Highway
No Response
An
"adopt-a-highway" sign on part of the Henry Hudson Parkway has
Trump's name on it. The city of New York said the Trump Organization, Trump's
business, paid the fee. It did not say how much was paid.
N.Y. Vietnam Vets Memorial Fund
1995 ($200,000+)
Trump made two
large donations to veterans' causes in New York: In 1985, he gave $1 million to
help build a Vietnam veterans memorial in the city, and in 1995 he gave an
amount estimated between $200,000 and $400,000 to help finance a parade
honoring veterans on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
No response
NAACP New York City
No response
NAACP New York State Conference
No response
NASCAR Foundation
No response
Nat Moore Foundation
Never
Natalie Gulbis Boys and Girls Club
Never
Pro golfer
Natalie Gulbis, a speaker at the Republican National Convention, thanked Trump
for his help in starting this Boys and Girls Club clubhouse in Nevada. Trump
has not donated, either from his foundation or from his own pocket.
National Children's Oral Health Foundation
(America's Tooth Fairy)
Never
National Football Foundation
Never
National Inclusion Project
Never
National Italian American Foundation
Never
National Jewish Health
Never
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Never
National Museum of Catholic Art and History
Records
Unavailable
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Never
National Society of Arts and Letters
Never
Trump was
honorary chairman of this group's East Coast Florida chapter's Red Rose Gala in
2015. He gave $0, from his foundation or from his own pocket.
Natural High
No response
NephCure
No Comment
New Destiny Christian Center
No response
New York Center for Living
Never
New York Jets Foundation
Never
New York Legal Assistance Group
Never
New York Marine Corps Council
Records
unavailable
New York Pops
Never
New York Presbyterian Hospital
No Comment
New York Restoration Project
Never
New York Times Neediest Cases
Never
New Yorkers for Parks
Never
Newark Museum Association
Never
NFL Player Care Foundation
No response
Niagara University
2000 (Not
Disclosed)
Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation
Never
North Shore Animal League America
No Comment
NYC Parks and Recreation
No Response
NYC Police Foundation
No Comment
NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
No response
Operation 300
No Comment
A charity to
honor fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Woods, whose mother has spoken out on Trump's
behalf.
Operation Smile
No Comment
Opportunity Village
Never
Orthopaedic Foundation
Never
Paley Center for Media
No Comment
Paley Foundation
No Comment
Palm Beach Habilitation Center
Never
Palm Beach Opera
Never
Trump was named
the "international honorary chairman" for this group's gala in 2009.
He gave $0 that year, from his foundation or from himself.
Palm Beach Police Foundation
Never
Palm Beach Preservation Foundation
No Comment
Palm Beach Symphony
Never
Palm Beach Zoo
Never
Palmetto Family Council
Never
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
No response
Partners for Patriots
Never
Partnership for the Homeless
Records
Unavailable
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
No Comment
Pin Down Bladder Cancer
No response
Planned Parenthood
No Comment
Trump has praised
some of Planned Parenthood's work, while also threatening to cut off its
federal funding if it continues to perform abortions.
Play for P.I.N.K. (Breast Cancer Research
Foundation)
Never
Police Athletic League of Buffalo
2004 ($5,000)
Police Athletic League of New York
2009
($5,000-$9,999)
This is the only
organization that reported receiving a personal donation from Trump between
2008 — the last time he gave to his own Donald J. Trump Foundation — and this
May. It may also be a bookkeeping error, with the PAL counting a donation from
Trump's foundation as a gift from the man himself. That happened in other
years' data, but the PAL says it cannot tell if it happened this year. Read
more.
Princess Grace Foundation
No response
Project Veritas
Never
Promises 2 Kids
Never
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Never
Protect Our Winters
Never
Puppy Jake
Never
Queens Library Foundation
No response
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
No response
Ramp Church
Never
In 2012, when
Trump visited Liberty University, a student handed Trump a letter asking for a
$1,000 donation to her Virginia church. He gave the money from the foundation.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Never
Right to Play
Never
Riverdale Country School
No Comment
Robin Hood Foundation
No Comment
Ronald McDonald House of N.Y.
Never
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Never
Rose Brucia Foundation
Never
Roswell Park Alliance/Roswell Park Cancer
Institute
Never
This was a
personal donation to charity — but from the wrong Donald Trump. Dr. Donald L.
"Skip" Trump, an oncologist who previously ran this Buffalo cancer
center, has given generously to a variety of causes. Donald J. Trump, the
presidential candidate, did once give to the cancer center from his foundation,
after the other Donald Trump asked him. Read more.
Rubin Museum of Art
Never
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
Never
Salvation Army
No Comment
Samaritan's Purse
No Comment
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
Never
School of American Ballet
Never
Ivanka Trump,
Trump's daughter, studied ballet here as a young woman. Trump gave $16,750 from
his foundation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but nothing from his own
pocket.
Seeds of Peace
Never
Sgt. Brandon Mendoza Memorial Foundation
Never
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Never
Shaun O'Hara Foundation
No Response
Shayley Estes Memorial Scholarship Fund
No response
Shine Global
Never
Shore Memorial Health Foundation
No response
Skyscraper Museum
Never
Small World Big Life
Never
Smile Train
No comment
Donald Trump Jr.
is on this organization's board. The Donald J. Trump Foundation does not appear
to have donated to it, but the organization declined comment about any gifts
from Trump personally.
Somer Sunshine Foundation
No response
Special Operations Warrior Foundation
No comment
St. Francis Food Pantries
No response
St. John the Divine
2002 (Not
Disclosed)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
No Comment
St. Luke's Community Services
Never
Stamford Center for the Arts
No response
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
No response
Stand Up To Cancer
No Comment
Actor Rob Lowe,
an acquaintance of Trump's, has raised money for this cause.
Starkey Hearing Foundation
No Response
Starlight Children's Foundation
Never
Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island Foundation
Never
Sunrise Day Camp
Never
Susan G. Komen Foundation
Never
In 2012, Trump
purchased a football helmet signed by then-Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow
— as well as a Tebow jersey — for $12,000 at an auction run by this
breast-cancer charity. He paid with money from the foundation, despite IRS
rules that say a nonprofit's leaders cannot use money meant for charity to buy
goods for themselves. Read more.
Tanzanian Children's Fund
No response
The Able Trust
No Response
The Church, St. Amant, La.
No Response
CNN reported that
Trump had donated a truckload of "stuff" at this church in an area of
Louisiana hard-hit by flooding
The Foundation for Jamiel Shaw II
No response
The Hawn Foundation
Never
The Remembrance Project
Never
Tiger Woods Foundation
No Comment
Turn 2 Foundation
No Response
Twin Towers Fund
No Response
During the
Republican National Convention, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said that
Trump had given donations to the families of fallen police and firefighters.
This was a charity set up to help those families after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
Tyrone S. Woods Wrestling Foundation
Never
A foundation
honoring a former Navy SEAL slain in the attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds
in Benghazi, Libya. Woods's father has endorsed Trump for president.
UCLA Foundation
Never
UJA-Federation
No Comment
Unicorn Children's Foundation
Never
This charity gave
Trump two honors at the same charity gala in 2008, naming him "grand
honorary chairman" and giving him the "Shining Star Award."
Although such honors often come with an expectation of a large donation, Trump
gave $5,000 from his foundation and $0 from his own pocket.
United Cerebral Palsy
2001 (Not
Disclosed)
United Hatzalah
No Comment
In 2014,
according to media reports, Trump publicly promised to give $100,000 to this
charity, which funds emergency medical services in Israel. The available
records from his foundation show no such gifts. The charity would not comment
as to whether Trump had fulfilled the pledge. Read more.
United Negro College Fund
No response
United Way of NYC
No Comment
University of California at Berkeley
Journalism School
Never
University of Pennsylvania Press
No Comment
USTA
Never
V Foundation
No Comment
In 2013, Trump
wanted the V Foundation to hold a fundraiser at his winery in Virginia. Trump's
foundation gave them $10,000 that summer. He got the fundraiser. Read more.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Never
Trump's
foundation gave repeated, very small donations to the VFW in the 1980s and
1990s but hasn't given since a $100 check in 1999. He has never given his own
money. The VFW says that two other people named Donald Trump, in Indiana and
Pennsylvania, have given more.
Villagers Theatre
Not Since at
least 1998
This community
theater in central New Jersey has a seat marked with a plaque that lists Trump's
name and the name of a casino he owned in New Jersey. The theater's leaders say
they don't know what Trump did to get his name on the plaque, or if he even
visited. Whatever he gave, it was at least 18 years ago. Read more.
Waterfront Center (D.C.)
No response
Waterfront Center (N.Y.)
Never
Wayuu Taya Foundation
No Response
West Side Montessori School
Never
Westchester Golf Association Caddie
Scholarship Fund
No Comment
Wharton Club of NYC
No Response
Wharton/UPenn
No Comment
Trump graduated
from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
White Plains Hospital Center
Never
William J. Clinton Foundation
Never
Trump's
foundation gave $110,000 total in 2009 and 2010 to this foundation run by
former president Bill Clinton and Trump's current Democratic opponent, Hillary
Clinton. He never gave money of his own.
Wolfsonian-FIU
No Comment
Women In Need
Never
Wounded Warrior Project
Never
In 2013, Trump
praised this charity, chosen by Celebrity Apprentice contestant Trace Adkins.
"Donate to an Injured Warrior today," Trump wrote on Twitter.
Chief Defendant Donald
Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation
to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire’s for-profit businesses,
according to interviews and a review of legal documents.
Those cases,
which together used $258,000 from Trump’s charity, were among four newly
documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against
“self-dealing” — which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to
benefit themselves or their businesses.
In one case, from
2007, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club faced $120,000 in unpaid fines from the town of
Palm Beach, Fla., resulting from a dispute over the height of a flagpole,In a
settlement, Palm Beach agreed to waive those fines — if Trump’s club made a
$100,000 donation to a specific charity for veterans. Instead, Trump sent a
check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity fundedalmost entirely by
other people’s money, according to tax records,
In another case,
court papers say one of Trump’s golf courses in New York agreed to settle a
lawsuit by making a donation to the plaintiff’s chosen charity. A $158,000
donation was made by the Trump Foundation, according to tax records.
The other
expenditures involved smaller amounts. In 2013, Trump used $5,000 from the
foundation to buy advertisements touting his chain of hotels in programs for
three events organized by a D.C. preservation group. And in 2014, Trump spent
$10,000 of the foundation’s money on a portrait of himself bought at a charity
fundraiser.
Or, rather,
another portrait of himself.
Several years
earlier, Trump used $20,000 from the Trump Foundation to buy a different,
six-foot-tall portrait.
If the Internal
Revenue Service were to find that Trump violated self-dealing rules, the agency
could require him to pay penalty taxes or to reimburse the foundation for all
the money it spent on his behalf. Trump is also facing scrutiny from the New
York attorney general’s office, which is examining whether the foundation broke
state charity laws.
More broadly,
these cases also provide new evidence that Trump ran his charity in a way that
may have violated U.S. tax law and gone against the moral conventions of
philanthropy“I represent 700 nonprofits a year, and I’ve never encountered
anything so brazen,” said Jeffrey Tenenbaum, who advises charities at the
Venable law firm in Washington. After The Washington Post described the details
of these Trump Foundation gifts, Tenenbaum described them as “really shocking.”
“If he’s using
other people’s money — run through his foundation — to satisfy his personal
obligations, then that’s about as blatant an example of self-dealing [as] I’ve
seen in awhile,” Tenenbaum said.
The Post sent the
Trump campaign a detailed list of questions about the four cases but received
no response.
The Trump
campaign released a statement about this story late Tuesday that said it was
“peppered with inaccuracies and omissions,” though the statement cited none and
the campaign has still not responded to repeated requests for comment.
The New York
attorney general’s office declined to comment when asked whether its inquiry
would cover these new cases of possible self-dealing.
Trump founded his
charity in 1987 and for years was its only donor. But in 2006, Trump gave away
almost all the money he had donated to the foundation, leaving it with just
$4,238 at year’s end, according to tax records.
Then, he transformed
the Trump Foundation into something rarely seen in the world of philanthropy: a
name-branded foundation whose namesake provides none of its money. Trump gave
relatively small donations in 2007 and 2008, and afterward, nothing. The
foundation’s tax records show no donations from Trump since 2009.
[In 2007, Trump
had to face his own falsehoods. And he did, 30 times.]
Its money has
come from other donors, most notably pro-wrestling executives Vince and Linda
McMahon, who gave a total of $5 million from 2007 to 2009, tax records
show. Trump remains the foundation’s president, and he told the IRS in his
latest public filings that he works half an hour per week on the charity.
The Post has
previously detailed other cases in which Trump used the charity’s money in a
way that appeared to violate the law.
In 2013, for
instance, the foundation gave $25,000 to a political group supporting Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi (R). That gift was made about the same time that
Bondi’s office was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against
Trump University. It didn’t.
Tax laws say
nonprofit groups such as the Trump Foundation may not make political gifts.
Trump staffers blamed the gift on a clerical error. After The Post reported on
the gift to Bondi’s group this spring, Trump paid a $2,500 penalty tax and
reimbursed the Trump Foundation for the $25,000 donation.
In other
instances, it appeared that Trump may have violated rules against self-dealing,
In 2012, for instance, Trump spent $12,000 of the foundation’s money to buy a
football helmet signed by then-NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
And in 2007,
Trump’s wife, Melania, bid $20,000 for the six-foot-tall portrait of Trump,
done by a “speed painter” during a charity gala at Mar-a-Lago. Later, Trump
paid for the painting with $20,000 from the foundation.
In those cases,
tax experts said, Trump was not allowed to simply keep these items and display
them in a home or business. They had to be put to a charitable use.
Trump’s campaign
has not responded to questions about what became of the helmet or the
portrait.The four new cases of possible self-dealing were discovered in the
Trump Foundation’s tax filings. While Trump has refused to release his personal
tax returns, the foundation’s filings are required to be public, The case
involving the flagpole at Trump’s oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club began in 2006,
when the club put up a giant American flag on the 80-foot pole. Town rules said
flagpoles should be 42 feet high at most. Trump’s contention, according to news
reports, was: “You don’t need a permit to put up the American flag.”
The town began to
fine Trump, $1,250 a day.
Trump’s club sued
in federal court, saying that a smaller flag “would fail to appropriately
express the magnitude of Donald J. Trump’s . . . patriotism.”
They settled.
The town waived
the $120,000 in fines. In September 2007, Trump wrote the town a letter, saying
he had done his part as well.
“I have sent a
check for $100,000 to Fisher House,” he wrote. The town had chosen Fisher
House, which runs a network of comfort homes for the families of veterans and
military personnel receiving medical treatment, as the recipient of the money.
Trump added that, for good measure, “I have sent a check for $25,000” to
another charity, the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial.
Trump provided
the town with copies of the checks, which show that they came from the Trump
Foundation.
In Palm Beach,
nobody seems to have objected to the fines assessed on Trump’s business being
erased by a donation from a charity.
“I don’t know
that there was any attention paid to that at the time. We just saw two checks
signed by Donald J. Trump,” said John Randolph, the Palm Beach town attorney.
“I’m sure we were satisfied with it.”
In the other case
in which a Trump Foundation payment seemed to help settle a legal dispute, the
trouble began with a hole-in-one.
In 2010, a man
named Martin Greenberg hit a hole-in-one on the 13th hole while playing in a
charity golf tournament at Trump’s course in Westchester County, N.Y. Greenberg
won a $1 million prize. Briefly.
Later, Greenberg
was told that he had won nothing. The prize’s rules required that the shot had
to go 150 yards. But Trump’s course had allegedly made the hole too short.
Greenberg sued.
Eventually, court
papers show, Trump’s golf course signed off on a settlement that required it to
make a donation to a group of Greenberg’s choosing. Then, on the day that the
parties informed the court they had settled their case, a $158,000 donation was
sent to the Martin Greenberg Foundation.
That money came
from the Trump Foundation, according to the tax filings of both Trump’s and
Greenberg’s foundations.
Greenberg’s
foundation reported getting nothing that year from Trump personally or from his
golf club.
Both Greenberg
and Trump have declined to comment,
Several tax
experts said that the two cases appeared to be clear examples of self-dealing,
as defined by the tax code.
The Trump
Foundation had made a donation, it seemed, so that a Trump business did not
have to.
Rosemary E. Fei,
a lawyer in San Francisco who advises nonprofit groups, said both cases
clearly fit the definition of self-dealing.
“Yes, Trump
pledged as part of the settlement to make a payment to a charity, and yes, the
foundation is writing a check to a charity,” Fei said. “But the obligation was
Trump’s. And you can’t have a charitable foundation paying off Trump’s personal
obligations. That would be classic self-dealing.”
In another
instance, from 2013, the Trump Foundation made a $5,000 donation to the D.C.
Preservation League, according to the group and tax filings. That nonprofit
group’s support has been helpful for Trump as he has turned the historic Old
Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue NW into a luxury hotel.
The Trump
Foundation’s donation to that group bought a “sponsorship,” which included
advertising space in the programs for three big events that drew Washington’s
real estate elite. The ads did not mention the foundation or anything related
to charity. Instead, they promoted Trump’s hotels, with glamorous photos and a
phone number to call to make a reservation.
“The foundation
wrote a check that essentially bought advertising for Trump hotels?” asked John
Edie, the longtime general counsel for the Council on Foundations, when a Post
reporter described this arrangement. “That’s not charity.” The last of the four
newly documented expenditures involves the second painting of Trump, which he
bought with charity money.
It happened in
2014, during a gala at Mar-a-Lago that raised money for Unicorn Children’s
Foundation — a Florida charity that helps children with developmental and
learning disorders.
The gala’s main
event was a concert by Jon Secada. But there was also an auction of paintings
by Havi Schanz, a Miami Beach-based artist.
Seven bucks.
That’s all it
cost to join the Boy Scouts of America back in 1989
Donald Trump
seemed to have been using a quid pro quo for the exact fee to get around paying
$7 to the local council to register his own son. Twitter was hugely
unimpressed;
The donation
dodge has not escaped the notice of reluctant Trump-watchers, who saw that in
1989, when the $7 “donation” was made, Donald Trump Jr had just turned 11 years
old, and become eligible to join the Scouts:
Chief Defendant Donald
Trump’s (RICO) Billions per year both public and cook the book accounts charitable
foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Defendant
Trump family — all listed under leadership especially (Trump Sr.) has never
obtained the “Legal Certification that New York requires before charities can
solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s
office,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 Trump’s 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.
If New York
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) finds that Trump’s foundation raised
money in violation of the law, he could order the charity to stop raising money
immediately. With a court’s permission, Schneiderman could also force Trump to
return money that his foundation has already raised.
“Chief Defendant”
Donald John Trump Sr., The Trump Organization Trump Tower 725 Fifth Avenue New
York, NY 10022 Co-Defendant The Eric Trump Foundation (ETF) The Eric Trump
Foundation, 725 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10022, with
Co-Defendant(s) Ivana Zelníčková, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump,
Tiffany Trump, Melania Knauss Trump, and Barron Trump collectively Herein
having both Public and (RICO) “Hidden” “Monetary Foreign Holdings, Assets,
properties, Corporations, Business, Companies, Retails, shops, import, export,
stores, homes, cars, chattel, Armory Collections ... Primary Weapon Auto
Rifles, Pulse Rifles, Scout Rifles and Hand Cannons Special to include military
missile weapons, and support thereof ect… based in foregin government Russian
Federation, Syria, Iraq and Iran in that for each (RICO) conspire committed and
achieved to defraud “United States”as a whole, Specifically, violations of “18
USC § 1343 RICO Wire Fraud”, and Specifically, violationsof RICO statute (18
U.S.C. § 1961(1) “Money laundering” Specifically, violationsof RICO statue “18
USC § 1341 “Mail Fraud”, To (Now) added that Chief Defendant
Collectively here
in January 1st 2000 – 2016 engaging in
“Terrorizing” against defendant (USA) own rules of governing laws
THE PATRIOT ACT
II: TERRORIZING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE http://www.prisonplanet.com/the_patriot_act_2_terrorizing_the_american_people.htmlagainst for the “Global Financing of
Terrorism” of The Defendant GOP Republican Party Defendant “Knight of The Klu
Klux Klan”, and financing foregin government Terrorism within the “United
States of America”, being past, present and future 1619 – 2016 (December)
“Terrorizing” the entire 44.5 Million Negro Race fully herein with aid from GOP
Republican Congress, being past, present and future 1619 – 2016 Defendant
“Whites Supermacey” and defendant Knights of The Klu Klux Klansmen Dynasty 1865
– 2016 (December) all negros slaves plaintiffs fully eliminated under “Blsck
Codes Laws” forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify
against white klansmen men, RICO GOP Government secured by the “Absloute
Immunity” white klansmen men, RICO GOP Government Supreme Court Justices,
Federal Appeals, and Federal/State GOP Government securing whites only, against
DNA Negro Slaves Plaintiffs collectively,to include but not limited to the
direct hostage of the (Hispanic) Immigrants destiny destroyed by the same race hate “Absloute Immunity” white klansmen
men, RICO GOP Government Supreme Court Justices, Federal Appeals, and
Federal/State GOP Government securing whites only, prosperity RICO Government
strong hold (boldly) Corrupted, bully before for the entire world international
communities, while abducting contine non-stop unchain, DNA Immigrants each and
every day entrance into the “port of jurisdiction” of (USA) to be striped of
actual legal citizenship from foreign country of orgin, to be now “Hate Base”
Discriminated against society of “lynching terrorizing control” property of the
actual defendant “United States of America” et al and paying monetary taxes to
be said abducte, and remain as such same life style of all 44.5 Million Negro
Slaves Plaintiffs herein “Castaways” enslavement without ever any rights to
appear before the “hostile RICO” slave trade Federal Court of defendant (MIA)
America which was never a defendant full “United States” for 148 years as
“White Klansmen uncouth Dogs” killed, forever being a direct cause of action
for massive wrongful loss of endless lives 1619- 2013
and control the RICO
criminal GOP Government to keep enslavement, listed past, present and future
herein and defendant “Federal Reserve bank” supplying back door theviery on all
levels of the Rouge GOP government, officially controlled by their Klansmen
Leader, (secretly) KGB Double agent Chief Defendant
Donald John Trump Sr. whom in 2016 utter from his own “loser lips” of missing
the good old days of actually never physically being a direct party to the
monetary tax system, of defendant “United States of America et al” as such RICO
Monetary not paying taxes total of $916 million in one year x 18 years =
16,488,000,000,.00 16.4 Billion Minimum of supporting his Chief Defendant”
Donald John Trump Sr., The Trump Organization Trump Tower 725 Fifth Avenue New
York, NY 10022 Co-Defendant The Eric Trump Foundation (ETF) The Eric Trump
Foundation, 725 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10022, with
Co-Defendant(s) Ivana Zelníčková, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump,
Tiffany Trump, Melania Knauss Trump, and Barron Trump collectively Herein
having both Public and (RICO) “Hidden” “Monetary Foreign Holdings, Assets,
properties, Corporations, Business, Companies, Retails, shops, import, export,
stores, homes, cars, chattel, Armory Collections ... Primary Weapon Auto
Rifles, Pulse Rifles, Scout Rifles and Hand Cannons Special to include military
missile weapons, and support thereof ect… based in foregin government Russian
Federation, Syria, Iraq and Iran in that for each (RICO) conspire committed and
achieved to defraud “United States”as a whole notwithstanding as stated above Prima
ficia tort Trump et al (RICO) Secretly conducted
business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict
defendant American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, internal
company records and court filings,” actually “Documents show that the defendant
Donald John Trump Sr. company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray
into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the
Caribbean country was prohibited without defendant U.S. government approval“
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