Trump’s Lawyer Steered Millions In Charity Donations To Himself
New Report Reveals Trump’s Lawyer Likely Defrauded Poor Christian Charity Donors.
Donald Trump’s attorney in the Russia investigation, Jay Sekulow pressed poor and unemployed Americans to donate money to his Christian nonprofit while steering $60 million of those funds back to himself, his family, and his own businesses, according to an investigation by The Guardian.
Telemarketers working for Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (CASE) were instructed by Sekulow to encourage even the impoverished to give a “sacrificial gift.”
Then, the charity allegedly paid out tens of millions of dollars to Sekulow, his sons, his brother, his wife, his sister-in-law, his nephew, his niece, and their firms.
The nonprofit also gave out a series of property deals and loans to their family, according to The Guardian report.
Legal experts say the activity likely violates federal laws regarding nonprofits.
“This is all highly unusual, and it gives an appearance of conflicts of interest that any nonprofit should want to avoid,” Daniel Borochoff, the president of nonprofit monitor CharityWatch, told The Guardian.
A 2015 investigation by The Daily Beast also found that Sekulow and his family profited through their conservative Christian charities.
You can read the full report by The Guardian here.
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