{"id":389690,"date":"2018-12-19T06:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-foundation-to-shut-down-amid-corruption-claims\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T06:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:52:29","slug":"presstv-trump-foundation-to-shut-down-amid-corruption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-foundation-to-shut-down-amid-corruption-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump Foundation to shut down amid corruption claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his personal charity \u2013 Trump Foundation \u2013 following allegations that it misused funds for his political and business gains.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced on Tuesday that the foundation would be dissolved and its remaining assets distributed to other charities under judicial supervision as it had engaged in a &#8220;shocking pattern of illegality.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Underwood filed a lawsuit against the foundation in June, claiming that Trump had been misusing the charity to promote his business interests and his candidacy during the US 2016 presidential elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Underwood argued that the charity \u201cwas little more than a checkbook for payments to not-for-profits from Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThis resulted in multiple violations of state and federal law because payments were made using Foundation money regardless of the purpose of the payment,\u201d she said in the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/19\/583348\/Donald-Trump-charity-Trump-Foundation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his personal charity \u2013 Trump Foundation \u2013 following allegations that it misused funds for his political and business gains. New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced on Tuesday that the foundation would be dissolved and its remaining assets distributed to other charities under judicial supervision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}