New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who opened an investigation into the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Tuesday, is a major Democratic donor who maxed-out to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2015 with a $2,700 donation.
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A New Yorker, Trump owns a Florida home as well as resorts and golf courses in the state.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office is looking at Trump’s foundation to see if it violated state law. “We’ve had correspondence with them”.
Clinton said: “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal”.
The foundation is being investigated to make sure it’s complying with NY laws governing charities, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
Earlier Tuesday, a group of prominent House Democrats asked the Justice Department to investigate the Trump Foundation over the $25,000 Bondi donation, which was in violation of IRS rules.
“I never, nor was my office, investigating him”.
The Washington Post’s David Farenthold has reported that Trump used foundation money to purchase gifts for himself, and the foundation misreported a number of donations.
Citing reports on the donation, Democrats wrote a letter to Lynch which said that such reports indicate “that these payments may have influenced Mrs. Bondi’s official decision not to participate in litigation against Mr. Trump”.
Clinton has dismissed Trump’s allegation as a political smear. Schneiderman already has one lawsuit going against Trump University, which is a real estate seminar company associated with Trump.
In a letter that all 16 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, ranking member John Conyers of MI said federal investigators should determine whether the 2013 donation and Bondi’s decision not to join the NY lawsuit violated federal bribery or tax laws.
Trump’s campaign called Schneiderman “a partisan hack”, according to Politico.
Mr Cheung called Mr Schneiderman’s comments “nothing more than another left-wing hit job created to distract” attention from Ms Clinton’s recent missteps on the campaign trail.
In 2009, Trump reportedly spent $20,000 meant for charitable purposes on a six-foot-tall painting of himself.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton returns Thursday to the White House campaign fray after a few days at home recovering from pneumonia in a health scare that raised question marks on her ability to lead the country. With polls tightening, though, the Trump campaign pushed back.
A source familiar with the matter confirmed the New York Attorney General’s Office opened an inquiry and said it is based on several transactions.
Trump and Bondi have insisted there was no quid-pro-quo.
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It’s not about presidential politics, but whether the state’s attorney general is doing her job properly and ethically.
