New York sues Trump, his foundation, over ‘self-dealing’
The lawsuit seeks $2.8m of restitution plus penalties, a 10-year ban on Trump serving as a director of a New York nonprofit, and one-year bans for his children
New York’s attorney general sued US President Donald Trump, three of his children and his foundation on Thursday, saying he illegally used the nonprofit as a personal "chequebook" for his own benefit, including his 2016 presidential campaign. Barbara Underwood, the attorney general, asked a New York state judge to dissolve the Donald J Trump Foundation and to ban Trump, his sons Donald Junior and Eric, and his daughter Ivanka from holding leadership roles in New York charities. Underwood said her office’s 21-month investigation, begun under her predecessor Eric Schneiderman, uncovered "extensive unlawful political coordination" by the foundation with Trump’s campaign, as well as "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit Trump’s personal, business and political interests. Among the transactions the lawsuit cited as illegal was a $10,000 payment to the Unicorn Children’s Foundation for a portrait of Trump purchased at a fundraising auction in 2014, and $100,000 paid to another ch...
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