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Official Trump Swamp Thread: Still Corrupt as Fuck

"Forbes reported Tuesday that the Eric Trump Foundation paid the Trump family business hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last seven years for use of one of the organization’s golf courses, funds which he claimed were being donated nearly in full to the children’s cancer charity."

So sketchy.
 

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https://amp.businessinsider.com/jay...ered-millions-from-nonprofit-to-family-2017-6


"Guardian reporter Jon Swaine also found that Case had pushed "more than $60m to Sekulow, his family, and their businesses" since 2000.

Sekulow and his family may be in violation of a federal law prohibiting nonprofits from paying "excessive benefits" to the people running them, according to experts who spoke to The Guardian.

Here are some parts of the nonprofit that stood out, according to The Guardian:

-Millions of dollars in donations were used to pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, and his extended family.

-A law firm co-owned by Sekulow and a production company he owns were paid tens of millions of dollars by Case.

-Case provided "a series of unusual loans and property deals" to Sekulow and his family."
 
The Trump JV hotel in Toronto is taking Trump's name off the property. When Trump and his Russian defaulted on a loan, VEB (Putin's piggy bank) bailed them out. But the Trump's got no money from the Russians or Putin.

I've got a bridge for sale.
 
It's outrageous that you can "retroactively" register as a foreign agent. It's the definition of fraud and a perfect example of the political class protecting itself in ways regular people can't.
 
https://amp.businessinsider.com/jay...ered-millions-from-nonprofit-to-family-2017-6


"Guardian reporter Jon Swaine also found that Case had pushed "more than $60m to Sekulow, his family, and their businesses" since 2000.

Sekulow and his family may be in violation of a federal law prohibiting nonprofits from paying "excessive benefits" to the people running them, according to experts who spoke to The Guardian.

Here are some parts of the nonprofit that stood out, according to The Guardian:

-Millions of dollars in donations were used to pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, and his extended family.

-A law firm co-owned by Sekulow and a production company he owns were paid tens of millions of dollars by Case.

-Case provided "a series of unusual loans and property deals" to Sekulow and his family."

Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.

Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.

“I can certainly understand how that would make it difficult for you to share a gift like that right now,” they told retirees who said they were on fixed incomes and had “no extra money” – before asking if they could spare “even $20 within the next three weeks”.

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Edit: the AGs (AsG?) in NY and NC are looking into Sekulow.

 
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One of the Justice Department’s top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration have been engaging in conduct that she said she would never tolerate in corporations.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-ca...-watchdog-resigns-saying-trump-makes-it?amp=1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...nblnkushpmg00000009&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009


"A top Justice Department corporate crime expert has quit, saying it’s impossible to hold suspected lawbreakers to standards that President Donald Trump is not meeting himself."
 
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/06/news/walter-shaub-office-of-government-ethics-resignation/index.html

"Walter Shaub, director of the previously little-known Office of Government Ethics, made a name for himself by criticizing the administration repeatedly, most notably over Trump's refusal to sell his business interests.
He also took presidential aide Kellyanne Conway to task for plugging Ivanka Trump products in a live TV interview, and he raised doubts about ethics waivers that the White House granted to its own employees.

Walter Shaub, director of the previously little-known Office of Government Ethics, made a name for himself by criticizing the administration repeatedly, most notably over Trump's refusal to sell his business interests. He also took presidential aide Kellyanne Conway to task for plugging Ivanka Trump products in a live TV interview, and he raised doubts about ethics waivers that the White House granted to its own employees.

"In working with the current administration, it has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program," he said."
 
Trump Aides Recruited Businessmen to Devise Options for Afghanistan

President Trump's advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon's plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, reflecting the Trump administration's struggle to define its strategy for dealing with a war now 16 years old.

Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, a billionaire financier who owns the giant military contractor DynCorp International, have developed proposals to rely on contractors instead of American troops in Afghanistan at the behest of Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law, according to people briefed on the conversations.
 
It's a few days old now, but have we discussed how Trump's campaign is paying Don Jr.'s legal expenses?

 
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