Trump’s Lawyer Jay Sekulow’s Charity Under Investigation After Revelations Of Fraud
The trouble for Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow continues to mount after it was revealed that his charity steered millions of dollars in donations to himself and his family.
And now we learn that two state’s attornies general are investigating the matter.
According to The Guardian, which first broke the story of potential charity fraud, “Authorities in two states are looking into a nonprofit led by an attorney to Donald Trump after the Guardian reported it had steered tens of millions of dollars to the attorney, his family and their businesses.”
“Josh Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina, and Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, said on Wednesday they would be examining the operations of Jay Sekulow’s group Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case),” the report went on to note.
It is illegal for charities to give excessive benefits to the people who operate them. And as The Guardian report notes, “Case’s board is dominated by Sekulow and his family. The group is registered with state authorities to operate and raise funds in 39 states plus Washington DC, according to its last available IRS filing. It is closely entwined with American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), another Sekulow nonprofit.”
The telemarketers who raise money for Sekulow’s charity have been instructed to tell donors that he does not accept compensation from the charity, however the Guardian’s bombshell report this week clearly shows otherwise.
Charity steering scandal
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.
You can read the full report by The Guardian here.
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