Trump pays $2 million in damages ordered by judge over misuse of charity funds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-paid-2-million-in-damages-ordered-by-judge-over-misuse-of-charity-funds-new-york-attorney-general-said/2019/12/10/2132645e-1b7e-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html?fbclid=IwAR3EC4n7iipBc6daikyUQWQZLZBOaKJoirPf5OTvHOdZL1Es2v2FzD0tif8

By David A. Fahrenthold
Dec. 10, 2019 at 2:33 p.m. EST

President Trump has paid $2 million in court-ordered damages for misusing funds in a tax-exempt charity he controlled, the New York attorney general said Tuesday.

The payment was ordered last month by a New York state judge in an extraordinary rebuke to a sitting president. Trump had been sued in 2018 by the New York attorney general, who alleged the president had illegally used funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to buy portraits of himself, pay off his businesses’ legal obligations and help his 2016 campaign.

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