New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman said on Tuesday he had opened an inquiry into the
Donald J. Trump Foundation to ensure the Republican presidential nominee’s
charity was complying with state laws governing nonprofits.
Schneiderman, a
supporter of Trump’s Democratic rival in the presidential race, Hillary
Clinton, sued the real estate mogul and his now defunct Trump University for
fraud in 2013, seeking $ 40 million in restitution plus penalties and other
costs.
In a CNN interview on
Tuesday, Schneiderman said his office had now brought Trump’s charitable
foundation under scrutiny.
My interest in this
issue really is in my capacity as regulator of nonprofits in New York state.
And we have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some
impropriety from that point of view,” the elected Democratic official said.
He added: “We have been
looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it’s complying with the laws
that govern charities in New York.” He did not elaborate on what wrongdoing
Trump’s nonprofit might have committed.
Trump campaign spokesman
Steven Cheung dismissed Schneiderman’s assertions as entirely motivated by
presidential politics, calling the attorney general a “partisan hack who has
turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for years.”
Cheung called
Schneiderman’s comments “nothing more than another left-wing hit job designed
to distract” attention from Clinton’s recent missteps on the campaign trail.
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