Eric Trump Charity Payments Being Examined by New York AG

Forbes said Trump Organization got $1 million from charity
Donors were told Trump properties used for free, magazine says

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By Erik Larson

June 9, 2017 at 8:43 PM UTC

Updated on

June 9, 2017 at 9:46 PM UTC

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is looking into why Eric Trump’s charity paid more than $1 million to use Trump Organization properties for charity events in recent years, after boasting to donors that the family’s assets were being used at no cost.

Forbes magazine reported this month that the Eric Trump Foundation shifted money it raised for children with cancer to his father’s Manhattan-based company, collecting fees for the use of a golf course before Donald Trump was elected president.