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Or businesses, that would certainly violate the law against self dealing. keep in mind, this is one new york state investigation hanging over donald trump. michael cohen has also met with the new york ag, which has vowed to keep purviewing the foundation. a new attorney general will be coming in. she has said i will be looking and seeing whats there. theyre seeking more than $2.8 million in restitution from the institution. from the charity. and thats not over yet. and, listen to this, what the ...

With bravado broke the rules. and far worse gave hillary clinton all the breaks in the world with just a scolding and setting up secret surveillance of the trump campaign for reasons still unclear. >> bill: i will add on your piece not once -- not once you write did new york state officials display any curiosity about a potential wrongdoing. whatever the clintons did was good enough for them end quote. >> you see that with the foundation and neither the new york state attorney general cared abou...

Not going to become the president, they were so severe drop off in the form donations to that organization, that begged a lot of questions. >> i assumed it would take 45 seconds to bring up the clinton foundation, i think it took him 30. well done. look, shannon, these are equivalencies that are just not appropriate to make. you are talking about two very discrete back patterns, and we are addressing the trump foundation and based on what the foundation did, the unlawful conduct that the attorne...

Lost a giant, but theyve swelled these past few decades because there was a penny marshall. gone today at the age of 75. and that is our broadcast, on a tuesday night. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. lets jump right in. a lot has happened today. just to hit the high points today, the trump foundation was forcibly closed by the state of new york today as part of an ongoing lawsuit by new york against the presidents charitabl...

Grift. but davids reporting was so solid before the election, and we knew it. so it is central though to the the sort of the big lie behind donald trump which is that he was a u successful businessman when he wasnt, and that he was a philanthropist, when in fact, he was engaging in self-dealing. all of these thing, and part of that, this cumulative effect of realizing how much the level of the sleaze, the self-dealing, the greed and pettiness that underlies donald trump and now seeped into the w...

Thats dedicated towards, i dont know, curing cancer in kids or preserving wildlife. it didnt have a very strong purpose. the people on the board were closely related to each other and didnt have expertise in the areas they wanted to make a difference in. and then there was a self-dealing. you picked some great examples with the painting he bought at a charity auction and installed in one of his hotels. the lawsuits that he settled on behalf of his properties he had his foundation settle lawsuits...

Charity, and giveaway its funds to reputable charities under a courts supervision. the agreement comes in response to an ongoing lawsuit by the state of new york against donald trump and his children for what the new york state attorney general described today as, quote, a shocking pattern of illegally at this involving the trump foundation including unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign repeated and willful self-dealing and much more. this amounted to the trump foundation f...

You are a trustee, and your duty of loyalty is to safeguard and act as a guardian to those charitable assets. donald trump used the foundation, which was almost entirely funded by people doing business with him, a sort of legal kickback where they would make contributions to the foundation where he could then spend the money, and he spent it repeatedly to benefit himself. thats called self-dealing. he settled lawsuits. he fixed up the fountain in front of the plaza hotel in new york when he owne...

>> its a lot like the storeny daniels and -- >> right. >> and the other womans name. >> karen mcdougal. >> yes, excuse me. while the stakes are not as high, were kind of looking at the same pattern of activity. >> yeah, what you get in both the cohen case and what you get here is just lines crosses, total impropriety, self-dealing and total conflicts. theres no compliance officer running around there to make sure theyre not tripping over these lines. >> the board apparently did not meet at any d...

New york state attorney general barbara underwood announced today that donald trump has agreed to dissolve the trump foundation, a so-called charity, and giveaway its funds to reputable charities under a courts supervision. the agreement comes in response to an ongoing lawsuit by the state of new york against donald trump and his children for what the new york state attorney general described today as, quote, a shocking pattern of illegally at this involving the trump foundation including unlawf...