"I don't recall ever seeing a pattern of self-dealing that encompasses so many different kinds of self-dealing," he said.
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RYUN: And some of the stuff that they&aposre going after is the self-dealing, the self-dealing ban that was a violation.
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Here's my second big change — stop self-dealing by public officials.
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Several journalistic investigations point to significant financial improprieties and self-dealing.
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Although Grant himself was upstanding, self-dealing coursed through his administration.
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The revelation immediately drew accusations from Democrats of Trump self-dealing.
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He built his career on self-dealing, fraud and tax avoidance.
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Accounts of elite self-dealing and embezzlement repeatedly scandalize the public.
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The Washington Post, which first reported the self-dealing admission on the 2015 form, earlier reported that Mr. Trump had used $258,000 from the charity to settle legal disputes involving his businesses, possibly violating self-dealing provisions.
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A second source of spending controversies surrounds the issue of self-dealing.
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Since then, nearly every nation has made efforts to prevent self-dealing.
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It's clearly self-dealing for a private foundation like the Trump Foundation.
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Bret: Trump, as usual, takes self-dealing to a whole new level.
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There is no self-dealing or double-dealing; no collusion, no obstruction.
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Trump, with Bannon's help, campaigned against political correctness and self-dealing elites.
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He also claims the loan was a result of the firm's self-dealing.
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Instead, they have been subject to expensive, inappropriate, and self-dealing financial advice.
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His tariffs, crony capitalism and self-dealing make a mockery of free enterprise.
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How high-minded self-dealing paved the way for our low-minded president.
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At times the level of self-dealing inside the charity becomes downright comical.
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He's also faced no measurable consequences for his blatant self-dealing since taking office.
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D.C. officials appear to be searching for evidence of self-dealing, the Times said.
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Voters who look to elected leaders for guidance see that self-dealing is tolerated.
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To be sure, every financial institution is prone to risk of internal self-dealing.
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We need a Washington Corrupt Practices Act to stop political families from self-dealing.
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And beyond impeachment, he's knee-deep in financial investigations and accusations of self-dealing.
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But throughout C suites, for decades, self-dealing has been the route to riches.
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And it's not clear that states can be relied upon to prevent self-dealing.
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It's not clear what specific acts of self-dealing the Trump Foundation was referencing, but in the tax documents, it admitted that it had engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and previous years, even though it had not previously disclosed any such acts.
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The foundation also admitted to violating some self-dealing rules in a 2015 IRS filing.
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Whistleblower#1's complaint to Congress has exposed Trump's self-dealing with the Ukrainian president.
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Self-dealing rules prevent nonprofit leaders from using charity dollars for personal or business use.
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The big exception, of course, is willful legal wrongdoing such as discrimination and self-dealing.
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The most recently exposed bit of self-dealing centers on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
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Charter corporations have been repeatedly charged with fraud, nepotism, self-dealing, and conflicts of interest.
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His nonprofit has stockpiled taxpayer dollars and possibly engaged in self-dealing with top executives.
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We saw trends as well as specific patterns of favoritism and instances of self-dealing.
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If it goes beyond that, it might also include the president's corruption and self-dealing.
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He has ignored repeated calls to sell his assets to avoid allegations of self-dealing.
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At the worst, Eric Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing and misleading donors.
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Now more than ever, it's important to check government for abuses or signs of self-dealing.
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It's a closeness critics say can too easily give rise to self-dealing and unethical behavior.
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The facts unambiguously point to defendants' deceit, self-dealing and fraud, which demand to be exposed.
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All, critically, set the stage for even quicker degradation of democracy and more endemic self-dealing.
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" When a charity founder spends foundation money on private interests, it is called "self-dealing transactions.
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Attorneys General from multiple states have investigated car donation charities for false advertising and self-dealing.
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Several investors even thought of threatening the CEO with legal steps related to his self-dealing.
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Self-dealing limits are the sort of complicated legal requirement that only little people take seriously.
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It's also been beset by accusations of gender and age discrimination as well as self-dealing.
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American politics, he said, was corrupted — by special interests, by self-dealing politicians, by weak negotiators.
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Graft creates incentives for further self-dealing, which distorts economic decision-making and breeds public cynicism.
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Why it matters: This seems to be self-dealing out of desperation, not out of greed.
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In November, the foundation filed forms saying it violated a ban on so-called self-dealing.
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The legal consequence would be that either Trump would owe a 10 percent self-dealing excise tax on the total amount of these transactions, or, more significantly, the foundation could lose its exempt status if it is determined they constitute a significant pattern of self dealing.
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The committee said that it had diligently investigated shareholders' allegations of self-dealing and conflict of interest.
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Meanwhile, a new anti-corruption party, Yes Bulgaria, hopes to capitalise on anger against self-dealing elites.
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Directing federal resources to an elected official's own family business is a blatant act of self-dealing.
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The revolution's proximate cause is voters' fury at the uselessness and self-dealing of their ruling class.
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We should expect that there will always be unscrupulous, self-dealing Americans ready to be their partners.
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" She also alleged "repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump's personal and business interests.
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The law also prohibits "self-dealing" on the part of those responsible for making decisions on grants.
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One point of investigation is whether WeWork's cofounder and former CEO, Adam Neumann, indulged in self-dealing.
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Corruption investigations and convictions gave Republicans ammunition to complain about Democratic self-dealing in Montgomery, the capital.
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His blistering 21983-page report found a culture of deception, self-dealing and self-enrichment at Enron.
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Mexicans are mad as hell at a system they see as self-dealing, under-performing and corrupt.
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The president, unlike in the Mueller probe, was caught red-handed self-dealing with a foreign country.
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Denton's professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment's secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies.
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CEOs could not engage in "interested-party transactions" — the risk of self-dealing was simply too great.
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They can also update the conflict of interest laws to make this sort of self-dealing illegal.
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Scandals involving everything from paying off strippers to self-dealing have swirled around Trump for three years.
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Karl A. Racine, the Washington attorney general, appears to be looking for any evidence of self-dealing.
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It was the bankrupt companies that paid for the self-dealing, meaning their creditors got less, too.
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The whiff of elite self-dealing and corruption is another grievance—and in Brazil it is a stench.
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Majority control in weakly regulated markets is the ideal environment for self-dealing, wild scheming and political intrigue.
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And it even seemed possible that the impeachment inquiry could expand to cover this self-dealing as well.
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If Trump's self-dealing continues, we're headed toward exactly the kind of corruption culture Ukraine struggles with now.
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In a counter-suit, Space Biosphere Ventures accused her of self-dealing and funneling $800,000 of project money.
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And Trump appears to have violated that rule, which is called 'self-dealing,' on a number of occasions.
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Essential questions emerged from the stories they told: How could a President engage in such brazen self-dealing?
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The lying and self-dealing are so pervasive that the stories about them barely stay in the headlines.
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The prize recognized a series of articles that uncovered waste and self-dealing in the Chicago City Council.
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"You've seen in the news a lot of examples of people who are doing self-dealing," Lubetzky said.
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Second, there are a host of ways that presidents engage in self-dealing like nepotism under the Constitution.
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This news only bolsters the idea that the President is abusing his power to engage in self-dealing.
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It's precisely this sort of self-dealing that has led to successful antitrust prosecutions of Google in Europe.
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Democratic lawmakers have accused Icahn of self-dealing in his proposal to alter the 12-year-old RFS regulation.
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If the IRS were to audit the foundation it could determine that these acts are taxable self-dealing transactions.
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STAT and Politico recently reported numerous instances of Soon-Shiong overhyping medical claims and potentially engaging in self-dealing.
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All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors.
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Although corruption and self-dealing remain endemic, slowly but surely, executives have internalized stronger commitments to more ethical behavior.
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A New York Times investigation in nine countries found that the system is warped by corruption and self-dealing.
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So is this just another self-dealing benefit for Mr. Trump, or is it motivated by the public interest?
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It appears as if their foundation could use some help understanding the difference between charitable giving and self-dealing.
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Modi has been trying to stamp out corrosive self-dealing practices in India since coming to power in 2014.
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Indeed, some experts believe that the self-dealing involved in the Trump Foundation may amount to criminal tax evasion.
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IRS prosecutions, Hackney continued, are reserved for repeat offenders who show brazen disregard for laws against charitable self-dealing.
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Trump's golf habit is also an example of the kind of self-dealing that is unprecedented among US presidents.
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According to Reuters, the NYAG's questions include if WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann engaged in self-dealing.
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Avoiding this situation of self-dealing can often be difficult when it comes to real estate transactions, Kirchenbauer said.
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If the membership was for himself and his wife, that would be "self-dealing" which is against the rules.
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This kind of self-dealing could (and probably should) get a non-profit organization shut down by the authorities.
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Attempts to read an anti-self-dealing principle into the pardon power, where none appears in the text, are incorrect.
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The foundation is accused of engaging in illegal political coordination with the Trump campaign, self-dealing and violating legal obligations.
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Ramanathan had a slightly better offer for the Avogy IP than his own bid but instead engaged in self-dealing.
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Democrats are seizing on the Collins arrest to suggest the GOP is home to corrupt, self-dealing candidates (The Hill).
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Among the issues the AG is said to be examining is whether Neumann indulged in self-dealing to enrich himself.
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Several investors have floated the idea of threatening Mr. Neumann with legal action, potentially over self-dealing, the NYT reports.
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But he soon became enmeshed in a financial scandal involving self-dealing with Walco National, a holding company he founded.
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Trump understands this, and he also knows that Americans cringe at any mention of political corruption by self-dealing politicians.
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This question grows even more troubling when the administration's institutional disrespect for Congress is fueling the President's personal self-dealing.
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Some examples gathered by Wilkie: The Foundation also engages in a certain amount of what seems to be self-dealing.
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The Trump Foundation also checked "yes" when asked if it had engaged in any acts of "self-dealing" in prior years.
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They had no patience for Pugh's self-dealing and lack of honesty, and the national humiliation that came with this story.
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Like America's president, Europe's demagogues describe a world in which strong nations must rise up against rootless, self-dealing transnational elites.
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The museum hails Nixon for rallying a "silent majority" of Americans who felt ignored and disdained by bossy, self-dealing elites.
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Their vigorous promotion of politics and business while on the job has reflected little worry about the appearance of self-dealing.
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Keeping tabs on the potential for self-dealing is "a monumental task", says Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert at Washington University.
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The Post, citing interviews and legal documents, said the findings suggest the GOP presidential nominee may have violated "self-dealing" regulations.
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office revealed the inquiry into Trump's foundation earlier this month, before thePost reporting raised self-dealing questions.
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The bottom line: This deal has been bedeviled by allegations of self-dealing, as the France family effectively controls both companies.
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Such self-dealing is prohibited in many jurisdictions, but wasn't prevented in Italy and even received favourable tax treatment until 28503.
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They engaged in a pattern of self-dealing that destroyed the bond of trust between the political elites and the masses.
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He had lots of self-dealing where he received large payments from the company to buy or lease his personal assets.
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The plaintiff alleges that Ellison's "self-dealing" on the NetSuite deal breached his fiduciary responsibilities to Oracle, according to court documents.
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Critics called it blatant self-dealing and accused Mr. Musk of using valuable Tesla shares to bail out a struggling SolarCity.
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The problem is that it is difficult to give a name to lack of direction, psychological emptiness, and familial self-dealing.
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If the foundation's board members did not know what activities constituted self-dealing transactions, the form lists them in the questions.
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In December, the Department of Justice began an investigation into Southwest Key for misuse of government funds and potential self-dealing.
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Trump's self-dealing and nepotism are obvious weak points, but he can parry Biden's attacks on that front by citing Hunter.
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Mr. Gantz has asked voters to focus instead on the corruption, self-dealing and arrogance that have tarnished Mr. Netanyahu's achievements.
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Now Americans have been shown a small sample of the backbiting, sycophantism, self-dealing and rank corruption within this Renaissance court.
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His exit comes after a number of revelations made his tenure at the highly valued WeWork appear chaotic and self-dealing.
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The narrative powering Donald Trump's campaign was that there is a corrupt and self-dealing elite that needs to be stopped.
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Recently Heritage initiated its own legal action against these same individuals to seek redress for an elaborate embezzlement and self-dealing scheme.
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And by failing to secure America, such self-dealing, rotten elites have lost the right to be heard on any other subject.
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Late last month, the New York attorney general's office expanded a probe into the Trump Foundation to include questions about self-dealing.
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Its territory is transfer deals, sponsorship contracts, the use of shell companies in tax evasion, self-dealing, match-fixing, and money laundering.
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Consumers should object to ICER's self-dealing market manipulation and combat the effort by insurance companies to distort market-based healthcare solutions.
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" Forbes' story said: "All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors.
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This kind of self-dealing is not new: According to CNN, Trump's 2016 campaign spent $12.5 million on his sprawling business empire.
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Unstated is that, while audits can catch incidents of outright fraud, rooting out self-dealing and legalized corruption is far more difficult.
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In an exhaustive Vox article Monday, Matthew Yglesias placed the collusion scandal in the larger frame of Trump's penchant for self-dealing.
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His presidency has been a horror of self-dealing and corrupt actors but getting rid of them will only stop the bleeding.
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Tammany was not just an institution, synonymous with the Democratic machine in New York City; with patronage, self-dealing, mendacity and corruption.
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By flouting these protections, Mr. Trump is opening himself to an unending stream of accusations of self-dealing and conflicts of interest.
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The company's cofounder and CEO Adam Neumann is stepping down amid concerns over his management style and incidents of apparent self-dealing.
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The result is a veil of secrecy that shields government officials from public scrutiny of potential conflicts of interests and self-dealing.
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Americans who give to, volunteer with, or depend on charities should know that politicking and self-dealing by charities are never acceptable.
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The attorney general's lawsuit accused the foundation of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegally coordinating with the Trump presidential campaign.
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It has stockpiled tens of millions of taxpayer dollars with little government oversight and possibly engaged in self-dealing with top executives.
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Several investors have floated the idea of threatening Mr. Neumann with legal action, potentially over self-dealing, two of the people said.
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" Wyden said his investigation, "as well as the mounting evidence of rampant self-dealing, indicate the NRA may have violated tax laws.
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"Open criminal investigations into accusations of self-dealing and other misconduct by Liberty's president, Jerry Falwell, Jr., at once!" the petition says.
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His and Mr. Paulson's signed contract to divvy up potential profits from the company raised questions among chess fans about self-dealing.
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There are laws against "self-dealing" that prohibit you from using your foundation to make loans or give gifts to family members.
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This isn't the first time the Trump family has been accused of self-dealing and failing to deliver on its charitable pledges.
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Watching a trial on self-dealing with this jury is like having Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman sit on a college admissions board.
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The administration backtracked on the announcement only two days later, after mounting accusations of self-dealing or violations of the foreign emoluments clause.
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Mr Berrios, who has held his office since 2010, has created "a self-dealing racket", says Daniel Biss, a Democratic candidate for governor.
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The investigation uncovered a deliberately opaque subsidy system that grossly undermines the bloc's environmental goals and is warped by corruption and self-dealing.
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The Democrats, in charge of the proceedings and witness list, were starting to craft a story arc of presidential threats and self-dealing.
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Underwood also filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2017 for alleged "improper and extensive political activity" and "self-dealing" by the Trump Foundation.
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"The disclosure required by this bill will shed light on conflicts of interest, self-dealing, or influence from domestic and foreign business interest."
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Even though an order probing Hee's activities went out in 2010, he continued to profit from self-dealing because the FCC stopped short.
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The commercial real-estate giant's fundamental problem is not that it had an entitled, hard partying, apparently self-dealing egomaniac as its head.
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Neumann himself was removed as CEO after investors blamed him for the company's profitability woes and questioned his personal behavior and self-dealing.
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It blunts charges of corruption and self-dealing hurled at Mr Trump, and validates to him and his supporters his feelings of persecution.
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While any charitable organization admitting to self-dealing violations is unusual, over the last year, Farenthold has reported multiple abnormalities in Trump's giving.
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If the report is true, the practices would violate both New York state law and federal law on self-dealing and misleading donors.
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But there was a lot of talk about, especially with Amazon, the platforms self-dealing, cutting themselves better deals, selling their own products.
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" He acknowledges the suspicions of self-dealing, and says "if we don't do this correctly, it can hurt more than it can help.
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James Madison worried about the presidency being used for a scheme of "peculation," in other words, self-dealing or embezzlement for personal advantage.
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His own administration has seen dramatic cases of self-dealing, official grifting, Cabinet secretaries living high on the government dole, and nepotism galore.
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Family life opens the door to self-dealing clannishness: parents hoard for their children; siblings and spouses favor one another over the collective.
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Across the region, upstart clean-hands parties and protest movements face an unfair fight against networks of self-dealing politicians and relentless popular disenchantment.
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There do not appear to be any demonstrated facts that show the Clinton Foundation violated this prohibition or even the stricter self-dealing prohibition.
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Unfortunately, what underlies these offers is often a lot of self-dealing that's purposefully geared toward harming competition, and that ultimately detrimental for consumers.
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A New York Times investigation conducted in nine countries for most of 2019 found that the system is warped by corruption and self-dealing.
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Ross's self-dealing and conflicts of interest should be part of a larger mosaic, encompassing Trump's blatant use of the presidency for economic gain.
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And if continued, the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) would become Exhibit #1 of Trump self-dealing after refusing to divest his business holdings.
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The American media is focusing on alleged corruption, conflicts of interest, and self-dealing connected to President Trump and his family's global business empire.
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Every day, Democrats should scream about Trump's self-dealing and personal corruption, because dear god, he's not even president yet and it's already begun.
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The state office also accused the Foundation of engaging in self-dealing transactions, not approved by its board, that benefited Trump and his businesses.
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"There have been 4 new stories about Trump administration self-dealing in the last day alone," Jonathan Chait of New York magazine tweeted yesterday.
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The dispute deepened when Pat Bowlen's brother Bill filed a civil claim in state court in Colorado that accused the trustees of self-dealing.
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So it is no surprise that more than half of white working class men now believe that Mr. Trump is "self-dealing" and corrupt.
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Workers were rightly enraged by the union officers' self-dealing and theft, not to mention a general lack of accountability in the U.A.W. hierarchy.
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Finally, wholly independently of any self-dealing by Mr. Flynn, Secretary of Defense James Mattis appears to favor caution when it comes to Raqqa.
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The demonstrations, which began over a sharp increase in gasoline prices, turned into protests about corruption and self-dealing by the authorities in Tehran.
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Jacobs would have advised caution, if not outright terror, because she feared the collusion and self-dealing that can accompany these kinds of projects.
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These theories aren't incompatible: As with so much else in Trump's world, personal psychodrama, commercial venality, political self-dealing, and moral folly freely mix.
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If a quid pro quo was proven, it would be self-dealing and an abuse of public office, and that can be a crime.
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PrivatBank had been plagued with self-dealing while under the control of notorious Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky, who owned 42.5 percent of the bank.
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The attorney general's office pushed for the reform agreement to improve the trust's governance amid allegations of profligacy, self-dealing, and disregard for term limits.
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That goes if you invest in real estate through your IRA and then use the property for your own purposes, otherwise known as self-dealing.
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The probe is the latest to target a member of Trump's administration, which has been dogged by allegations of conflict of interest and self-dealing.
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" The newspaper says Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing that "prohibit nonprofits leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.
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He did it because he was expecting to get a secret $10 million kickback, and as the complaint alleges, he concealed this criminal self-dealing.
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In doing so, he may have violated laws prohibiting "self-dealing," which bar nonprofit leaders from paying themselves or their business ventures with charity funds.
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But in a statement she more broadly foreshadowed continued efforts to investigate Trump — ones that also center on Trump's finances and allegations of self-dealing.
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Trump's charity is under investigation by New York state, after Farenthold found that it was self-dealing and raising money without filing the necessary paperwork.
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Even after his resignation, his successor filed a lawsuit against Trump for alleged "improper and extensive political activity" and "self-dealing" by his charitable foundation.
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But Pruitt quickly sought to cast doubt on news reports that have engulfed him and his agency in claims of self-dealing and wasteful spending.
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Barnum became one of the most celebrated men in America not despite his bigotry and duplicity, his flimflamming and self-dealing, but because of them.
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A self-reinforcing spiral of regulatory capture, self-dealing and influence-peddling has led to intensely concentrated power that is at once economic and political.
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It's impossible, in real time, to keep up with every new Trumpian advance in corruption and self-dealing, and Republicans in Congress aren't even trying.
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The suit accuses the foundation and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
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It gives the politically connected class enormously tempting opportunities for self-dealing, the sort of thing that is blatantly illegal in almost any other context.
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That could be considered "self-dealing," where a nonprofit official directs money from the organization toward a commercial venture the official has a stake in.
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And, as often happens in New Jersey, political infighting and self-dealing resulted in a tug of war over who would sit on the committee.
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And Mr. Ramaphosa's own government has been tainted by allegations of the same sort of self-dealing that led to the ouster of Mr. Zuma.
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But he dismissed as "ludicrous" accusations that the arrests were politically motivated, saying that was the only way to root out corruption and self-dealing.
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Donald Trump ran for president promising to "drain the swamp" of corruption and self-dealing that he argued had taken root in Washington, DC. But not only has he immediately moved to pack his transition team with lobbyists and millionaires, his personal financial situation also poses a series of massive conflicts of interest and lays the groundwork for financial self-dealing on an essentially unprecedented level.
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The Trump Foundation has also allegedly engaged in what's called "self-dealing," or using a charity's money for personal gain, which is usually against IRS rules.
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Usually self-dealing by investment managers isn't as blatant as putting it all on momentum, which after all, is a strategy with its own considerable risks.
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Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.
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Members of the club can expect to meet—and lobby—Trump on various issues, which makes that "initiation fee" look an awful lot like self-dealing.
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It presents him as petty, vain, self-dealing, image-obsessed, a master manipulator, uninterested in growing as a person, driven only to serve his greater glory.
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Management buyouts like the one that Mr. Dell pursued are often filled with conflicts and self-dealing, dynamics that have produced steady fodder for this column.
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The rules around Delaware's appraisal rights of "fair value" are aimed at helping long-term shareholders protect themselves in instances of self-dealing or other chicanery.
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Frank and CCAF consider themselves to be a bulwark against collusion and self-dealing, the only litigant whose sole objective is to protect class members' interests.
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It's meant to be a definitive list of self-dealing by the president, his family, his staff or his friends — since he began running for president.
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Tired of the lies; tired of the self-dealing; and tired of the incompetence that has marked your stewardship of the most powerful nation on earth.
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Studio self-dealing Netflix has been able to buy up content in part because it was the biggest and one of the few games in town.
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The evidence being amassed regarding Ukraine alone is damning and raises serious concerns about the conduct of national security, financial self-dealing and straight-out corruption.
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Supporters of the crown prince defend the crackdown as a necessary push to shock the Saudi elite out of longstanding habits of graft and self-dealing.
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Certainly, some of them, as the sociologist C. Wright Mills argued in his indispensable book, "The Power Elite," existed as a dubious means of self-dealing.
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If the government were serious about tackling the corruption, it could have introduced a conflict of interest law to address the self-dealing among government officials.
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While the film and its characters avoid explicit political commentary, the world they inhabit is one that has been corrupted by money, power and self-dealing.
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He is the latest official to delve into the committee's fund-raising and spending, and he appears to be looking for possible evidence of self-dealing.
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The problem, of course, is that elites cheat and they game the system and they engage in all kinds of self-dealing in order to get ahead.
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"Courts take a dim view of board actions that are made in bad faith or with self-dealing," said Andrew I. Bart, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
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Previous wealthy presidents have, however, taken it upon themselves to reassure the public that they are not self-dealing by placing their assets in a blind trust.
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"Just Giving" takes up only legal forms of self-dealing, not the illegal sorts that the Donald J. Trump Foundation has recently been accused of engaging in.
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The lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General's office alleges that the Trump Foundation engaged in political activity illegally and was involved in self-dealing transactions.
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Schneiderman's successor, Barbara Underwood, also filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Trump for alleged "improper and extensive political activity" and "self-dealing" by the Trump Foundation.
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This is not a political or partisan issue — anti-corruption rules for ethics and conflicts of interest are necessary to protect against divided loyalties and self-dealing.
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Mr. Manafort, in other words, embodies the sort of amoral, self-dealing denizen of the swamp that Mr. Trump pledged to drain when he got to Washington.
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And the corruption won't be limited to the very top: The new administration seems set to bring blatant self-dealing into the center of our political system.
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In both cases, Delrahim denied that politics or presidential self-dealing played any role in his enforcement decisions, or that they were influenced by the White House.
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Build the [Fire]wall To strengthen whatever other measures Trump takes, both the Trump Organization and the White House could establish rules to prevent inappropriate self-dealing.
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Trump also said he would shutter his foundation (although he can't while the New York attorney general is still investigating the charity amid accusations of self-dealing).
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Government watchdogs and the President's opponents argue the payments to Trump's business from governments -- domestic or foreign --violate anti-corruption and self-dealing clauses in the Constitution.
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At every level, American officials were frustrated by their Ukrainian counterparts' refusal to investigate and prosecute corruption and self-dealing among government officials and the business class.
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The "Bones" arbitrator has suggested Fox was self-dealing when it sold the show's digital rights to Hulu, potentially depriving the plaintiffs of millions in extra fees.
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It's threaded with pessimism about not just a self-dealing crook in the Oval Office but about the uniquely American institutions and attitudes that got him there.
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As a candidate he accused foolish, cowardly and self-dealing political leaders of failing to see that America holds all the cards when competing with rivals like China.
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But this time, especially for a candidate that rode to office promising to "drain the swamp" of self-dealing in Washington, he should consider taking a different approach.
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We're gonna feel pretty dumb if our weird obsession with State Department email practices and relative disinterest in fraud, bribery and self-dealing ultimately leads to ethnic cleansing.
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The New York state attorney general has accused the foundation in a civil lawsuit of "repeated and willful self-dealing transactions" that violate state and federal charity laws.
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Cronyism and self-dealing are going to be the central theme of this administration — in fact, Mr. Trump is already meeting with foreigners to promote his business interests.
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The lawsuit brought against the Donald J. Trump Foundation — which President Trump says he won't settle — details instances of engaging illegally in political activity and self-dealing transactions.
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TODAY, YOU ANNOUNCE YOU'RE SELLING THE DELAWARE CHANCERY, WHERE THEY'RE WELL KNOWN, BECAUSE THERE WERE TWO CLASS ACTIONS AGAINST THEM IN THE CHANCERY -- ONE BEING FOR SELF-DEALING.
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The lawsuit accused the charity and members of Mr. Trump's family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.
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Asked if it had violated the ban on so-called self-dealing in prior years, the foundation also said "yes," according to the forms, also viewed by Reuters.
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Arizona's school-choice sector is already the largest in the nation, and has struggled with problems like astronomical executive pay and self-dealing legislators involved in the industry.
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" Mr. DiNapoli said in a statement that the fund "has absolutely no tolerance for self-dealing, and we are outraged by Mr. Kang's shocking betrayal of his responsibilities.
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Finally, and most importantly, the overwhelming opposition for self-dealing does not mean that we can simply graft it onto the language of the Constitution without an amendment.
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" "The report from the Senate Finance Committee shows the NRA has been engaged in business activities and self-dealing that likely violate nonprofit rules under the tax code.
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It was dogged by accusations of influence peddling, self dealing and conflicts of interests, due in large part to hefty contributions from foreign governments and other influential donors.
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And in May, TIAA-CREF agreed to pay $1.50 million in a suit involving charges of self-dealing that led to overpaying in administrative and investment management fees.
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ERISA imposes a fiduciary obligation on employers to act in the sole interest of the plan participant, only allows reasonable fees, and prohibits self-dealing by the employer.
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That's why this whole episode, with the "Healthy Holly" books, feels like a whirlwind -- we found out about her self-dealing in mid-March, she's gone by early May.
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And in recent weeks there has been an escalating series of stories about self-dealing, money flowing to cronies, and high-stakes policy decisions impossibly tangled with personal wealth.
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Wegmans was selected in part for its community-oriented management style (consider the contrast to the decadent, self-dealing practices of WeWork, another recent occupant of the Navy Yard).
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In 2008, when financial services firms were being regularly shamed for self-dealing and stiffing clients, Seay was just enrolling in the financial planning program at Kansas State University.
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Donald Trump campaigned on the notion that fixing Washington would be simple because the problems were simple; caused by the feckless idiots and self-dealing crooks known as politicians.
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SELF-DEALING Neumann has entered into several transactions with the We Company over the years, making the company a tenant in some of his properties and charging it rent.
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In 1933, Ferdinand Pecora, backed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, exposed a whole host of self-dealing and fraud among bankers and utility magnates, the tech titans of the time.
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Warren answers with a broad brush, essentially casting the modern Republican Party as an outgrowth and a contributor of the self-dealing forces that elevated Trump to the presidency.
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WeWork's bankers weren't having any luck drumming up enough support for the IPO, hearing from investors concerned about signs of Neumann's self-dealing and skepticism about the business model.
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The arrangement has prompted accusations of nepotism and self-dealing even after Mr. Granger's role changed in the fall to oversee more specific aspects of the flood control project.
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Mr. Trump and the foundation were accused of a wide array of "self-dealing transactions," or transactions that were designed to serve himself rather than the foundation's intended beneficiaries.
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The self-dealing could have inspired an extra article of impeachment, lawsuits, demands for forensic accounting, boycotts by world leaders, defections by Republicans and other consequences Trump can't afford.
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By most accounts, Joe Biden has done his best to keep his nose clean of the most egregious self-dealing that some in his class cannot help but pursue.
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But today, many of those newsrooms have shuttered, and the national political press, after four years of reporting on Donald Trump, no longer treats self-dealing as inherently scandalous.
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And they didn't anticipate a President who would be so willing to push every rule to the breaking point -- or be so cavalier about the appearance of self-dealing.
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WeWork's value has crumbled after its attempt at a public offering collapsed under scrutiny of the company's business model and accusations of self-dealing by its founder, Adam Neumann.
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The Trump Foundation has reportedly admitted to "self-dealing" and transferring "income or assets to a disqualified person" on the foundation's 2015 tax form, according to The Washington Post.
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Trump had originally planned to hold the meeting at his Doral resort in Florida, but he changed the location to Camp David after he was criticized for self-dealing.
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The motion had argued that the U.S. Constitution immunized Trump from Underwood's claims alleging breach of fiduciary duty, improper self-dealing, and misuse of assets belonging to the Foundation.
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They voted in part because they wanted to take back control from an undemocratic Europe, and in part because they considered the British establishment a collection of self-dealing incompetents.
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Less cash for managers and insiders to play with means fewer opportunities for the wide range of self-dealing tactics that can benefit those making the decisions but hurt owners.
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Trump would be judged on self-dealing by a jury that would include Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, charged with corruption for exchanging official acts for gifts from a wealthy doctor.
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In place of supposed Silicon Valley virtues like idealism, flexibility, and merit we now detect opportunism, self-dealing, individualism, overblown promises, and, as always, a great man to lead us.
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The Department of Justice is investigating whether a real-estate development deal near land owned by Mr Zinke and his wife amounts to self-dealing and a conflict of interest.
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As well as enabling malign people to spread fake news, as many have pointed out, this revolution is also making it easier for outsiders to draw attention to self-dealing.
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The Washington Post's David Farenthold reports that the Trump Foundation admitted that it engaged in "self-dealing" on tax forms, meaning that it used charitable funds for Trump's personal use.
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According to the Post, the foundation may have already engaged in some shady self-dealing, like when Trump used $258,000 from the charity to pay for his businesses' legal fees.
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"This EU study reveals that it actually is a more covert way to raise prices and increase their profits with the added benefit of anti-competitive self dealing," he added.
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In the S-1, the company detailed a long list of items that scared off investors — including its business-model fundamentals as well as Neumann's unchecked power and self-dealing.
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A compensation expert says the cancellation of his stock-option plan, replaced by something called "profits interests," is a source of concern and indication of "self-dealing" by the CEO.
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This is the same president-elect who just paid a $85033 million fraud settlement over Trump University, the same president-elect whose charitable foundation just admitted to rampant self-dealing.
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It revealed a cable highlighting the opulence and self-dealing of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and his family, enraging his already restive and economically pinched public.
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But Juan — and initially, Buchanan — is scheduled to hang for murder in a corrupt border town, run by a self-dealing family whose members include the sheriff and the judge.
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At the end, in a moment of triumph for the heroes, the pseudo-Obama's head explodes, along with the heads of the rest of the world's villainous, self-dealing elites.
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Since the first trial, however, Mr. Bonomo, who is cooperating with prosecutors, has been forced from his management position by state regulators amid charges of self-dealing, mismanagement and cronyism.
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But the New York attorney general deeply documented just how cheesy he and his children are with a suit accusing the Trump charitable foundation of illegal behavior and self-dealing.
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On Monday, Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating a constitutional ban against self-dealing by failing to shed his private business interests.
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Self-dealing, nepotism, conflicts of interest: Donald Trump campaigned on ending that kind of corruption in Washington, then, once in office, threw open the doors of his administration to it.
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She is so freighted with scandal, self-dealing, and the stench of corruption — much of which is of her own making — that it will haunt her early months at least.
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Taken with new allegations of self-dealing and abuses of power, other leaders may now need to include anti-corruption talking points on their agenda when meeting with President Trump.
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Many of Le Pen's supporters might be bigots, but their case against the self-satisfaction, self-dealing, moral preening and economic incompetence of the French ruling classes is nearly impeccable.
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The filing also shed light on some of Neumann's alleged self-dealing, including the fact that he had trademarked the name "We" and then licensed it to his own company.
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Unlike the prior impeachable offenses suggested by Democrats, this allegation of self-dealing could be both an impeachable offense and a federal crime, though neither would be easy to prove.
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Why was a man whose business practices include shady self-dealing as the head of both OneWest bank and Relativity Media allowed to participate in MOCA's oversight and planning processes?
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: New York&aposs attorney general is suing President Trump and his three eldest children, alleging, quote, self-dealing another persistent illegal conduct at the president&aposs charity.
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I will say this, Illinois is unusual because we&aposve had such corruption in our state, so much self-dealing and conflict of interests between government union leaders and elected politicians.
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If he is unwilling to divest his business or put everything in a blind trust, will questions about potential self-dealing continue to dog his administration and distract from his successes?
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" The spokesperson added, "The op-ed makes an argument that nonpartisan government watchdogs would make, arguing in favor of a law that would prohibit self-dealing by those with government connections.
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The public is in store for a drawn out process that takes the hypocrisy over this one word and multiplies it a thousandfold in a trial over self-dealing in office.
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"Hosting the G7 at Trump's failing Doral resort is one of the most egregious examples of corruption and self-dealing in the most corrupt presidency in our history," said Democratic Sen.
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In motions, Mr. Cooper, who helped uncover the switch defect that has been linked to 124 deaths, cited what he described as self-dealing actions on the part of Mr. Hilliard.
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Critics — including Democrats and Republicans — widely panned the choice, announced Thursday, as one of the starkest examples of self-dealing in a presidency that has taken the practice to unprecedented levels.
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"He had engaged in self-dealing to inflate loan-origination numbers and he had inflated the assets of subsidiaries of LendingClub before the IPO—both issues involving financial reporting," Alsup wrote.
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The upshot is that companies in the U.S. are increasingly free to act without proper shareholder oversight, theoretically leading to more executive self-dealing, lower investment returns and lower economic growth.
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The hedge fund blamed Forest City's "tangled web of nepotism", "self dealing" and failure of corporate governance for its depressed margins, bloated general and administrative expenses and "value-destroying capital allocation".
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On Monday night, The Washington Post's David Farenthold, the reporter who broke numerous stories about the Trump Foundation's self-dealing, went on CNN to discuss Trump's plan to dissolve the foundation. .
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"We're glad that the FCC continues to raise concerns about these companies' self-dealing exemptions," Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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Schneiderman's successor, Barbara Underwood, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Trump for alleged "improper and extensive political activity" and "self-dealing" by his now-defunct charitable organization, the Trump Foundation.
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The Washington Post and others have found that Trump donated little of his personal money to the charity after 2006, and the attorney general's lawsuit accuses the foundation of self-dealing.
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What will the next president do to restore a sense of national outrage over wrongdoing whenever it occurs, be it blatant self-dealing, corruption of US foreign relations, or something else?
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Another supposedly independent director was the CFO of Solar City, a firm Musk owned before Tesla's $2.6 billion acquisition, a blatant self-dealing transaction that enriched Musk and some board members.
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And in June, the New York attorney general's office filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation, claiming the charity had engaged in self-dealing and other violations.
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"This whole entire episode has been hurtful to the city," said Jill Carter, a state senator representing Baltimore who has been pushing to limit self-dealing on the hospital network's board.
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In June, the state attorney general sued the Trump Foundation in civil court, accusing the charity of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegally coordinating with Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.
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Congress imposes rigorous rules on private foundations; for example, each of these self-dealing transactions probably subjected Mr. Trump to a 10 percent tax applied to the value of the transaction.
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" "For the president to engage in self-dealing for his own benefit to put himself above the country and to threaten the integrity of our elections, upon which everything else depends.
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The normalization of this sort of personal self-dealing has turned out to be one of the most successful political projects of our age; it has happened right under our noses.
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The move in 2010 raises questions as to whether the charity was involved in "self-dealing," which is the process of using charitable funds to benefit oneself or one's personal business.
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Mr. Trump reportedly used hundreds of thousands of foundation dollars to settle legal cases and buy portraits of himself that hang at Trump properties, among other egregious examples of self-dealing.
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Trump's self-dealing mainly consists of using the Foundation as a piggy bank any time he personally would like to cut a check to a non-profit organization for personal gain.
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When he was asked about Trump's aborted decision to host the G7 summit at one of his Florida resorts, he admitted, "People think it looks lousy," referring to fears of self-dealing.
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Far from being a tool of political corruption, the Civil Service was created to be an antidote to the very kind of corruption and self-dealing that seems to plague this administration.
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That means deferring to Republican congressional leaders on policy while, in exchange, they defer to him on matters related to corruption, self-dealing, and his general program of enriching the Trump family.
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The firm plans to pursue personal claims against Aeropostale's officers and directors for "fraudulently concealing" a breach of a liquidity covenant, self-dealing and not upholding fiduciary duties, the Sycamore spokesman said.
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Davosites need to be as hard on self-dealing on their own side, particularly among company bosses who pay themselves ever more for mediocre performance, as they are on that of others.
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They could push for hearings on Trump's self-dealing and/or other potential violations of the Constitution, or force Trump to release his tax returns by withholding their votes on key issues.
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And in this same world, a public official charged with protecting the environment for the benefit of all Americans turns out to be self-dealing, corrupt and bent on upending environmental protections.
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The story of what happened is complex and ongoing, but one particular thread stands out from the past month of WeWork news: CEO Adam Neumann's repeated self-dealing while leading the company.
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This was a week before New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit seeking to disband Trump's philanthropic foundation following a two-year investigation, alleging extensive campaign-law violations and extravagant self-dealing.
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According to the IRS, self-dealing can include the "transfer to, or use by or for the benefit of a disqualified person of the asset of a foundation," except for certain exemptions.
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If Trump ever did anything that might hurt the rich or help the poor, many Republicans might suddenly discover that self-dealing and accepting help from hostile foreign powers are actually bad.
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That nonprofit lost its federal contracts in February for possible self-dealing, including renting shelters owned by charity officials and using public funds to pay them well above what the government permits.
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Asked by The Times last year about that potential self-dealing — whereby the executives collected rent paid by the federal government — they announced that they would seek to sell their ownership stakes.
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The government could anchor a tax evasion and false statement case upon the multiple instances of self-dealing, as cataloged by the New York attorney general, between Mr. Trump and the foundation.
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Ms. Gbowee, the Liberian activist who shared the Nobel with Ms. Johnson Sirleaf, resigned from a government post to protest what she saw as the president's tolerance for self-dealing and graft.
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But instead of protecting his fortunes, those financial advisers "engaged in years of gross mismanagement, self-dealing, and at times, actual fraud," according to a lawsuit Mr. Depp filed against the company.
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What we're hearing: The unofficial narrative is that the directors were shocked, just shocked to find out that Neumann likes to smoke pot and had some questionable self-dealing with the company.
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In publicly responding to Randolph's claim when the Constitution went to the states for ratification, Hamilton provided a second, broader justification for the pardon power and rejected limits on its self-dealing use.
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He was named as an unpaid special adviser to President Donald Trump in December and has said his proposal is not self-dealing because it would benefit many refining companies, not just CVR.
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Their stunning downfalls, after years in power, were prime evidence that the government Mr. Cuomo hailed as competent and effective is also a capital of graft, self-dealing, influence-peddling and ethical torpor.
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This is despite the fact that any use of a private foundation's assets by its insiders for their own benefit is clearly self-dealing, which Congress prohibited for such foundations back in 1969.
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Attorney General Barbara Underwood's lawsuit claims to have uncovered unlawful political coordination by the Donald J. Trump Foundation with Trump's White House campaigns, and "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit the president.
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The Post called into question the legality of Trump's payment, given that the IRS forbids what is called "self-dealing," which is basically when non-profit officials use their charity to benefit themselves.
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When bank executives have a personal financial stake in projects that their own bank is financing, it is known as "self-dealing," and it is a crime in nearly every country, including Kazakhstan.
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As euphoria in capital markets takes hold, predatory pricing scheme come to entirely wastes capital on money losing enterprises, and eventually these companies become Soviet-style generators of white elephants and self-dealing.
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"Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation – including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more," Underwood said in a statement.
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The story of what happened is complex and still ongoing, but one particular thread stands out from the past month of WeWork news: Adam Neumann's apparent repeated self-dealing while leading the company.
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"Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more," Underwood said in a statement.
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I only bring it up because if the Trump Foundation gave money for immigrant legal defense, it could make a strong claim that it is taking seriously the responsibility to avoid self-dealing.
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The new temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva in their father's honor, is now being investigated for the same kind of self-dealing and fraud the family is accused of mastering in South Africa.
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Along with a group of Mubarak cronies in business and in the ruling party, they came to symbolize the self-dealing and corruption that were hallmarks of their father's three decades in power.
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Take all the evidence into account and it's easy to see that, like Nixon, Trump's ignoble impulses -- his obfuscation, his self-dealing -- represent a threat to the country and to his own presidency.
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What that group of nameless, faceless patriots have now given to the intelligence committees is a big, sweet ol' Vidalia onion in the form of a whistleblower roadmap to expose Trump's self-dealing.
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He investigated Mr. Cuomo's suspicious disbanding in 2014 of the Moreland Commission, an anticorruption panel that Mr. Cuomo had established a year earlier to address the epidemic of self-dealing in state politics.
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Ethics rules are made so politicians aren't in the position of getting to choose between the people and their bank accounts, and so there isn't even the appearance of impropriety or self-dealing.
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They said the president was only acting prudently to protect American taxpayer interests by urging investigations into corruption in a nation with a history of self-dealing by top officials before committing American aid.
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But it's also the formula that gave us Adam Neumann, the WeWork founder whose approach to management and proclivity for self-dealing were so egregious that they ultimately scuttled the company's $47 billion IPO.
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That's a relief for some analysts and investors watching the IPO who say the original target defied reality, especially given some of the criticisms facing the company's complex structure and appearances of self-dealing.
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Trump's most effective campaign message was his pledge to "drain the swamp" -- as in, get rid of the corruption, self-dealing and nest feathering that the average person assumes is standard procedure in Washington.
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Mr. Poroshenko, unlike his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir V. Putin, also has to contend with a lively free press that delights in probing and exposing government stumbles and the maneuvers of self-dealing insiders.
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The article detailed "a culture of fear and self-dealing" at the school under the leadership of Falwell Jr. Falwell spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention that nominated Trump for the White House.
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That bright stance was an entrée to a pair of tweets defending Trump's embattled foundation, which has admitted to illegal self-dealing in 2015 and is currently under investigation by New York's attorney general.
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But a New York Times investigation, drawing on dozens of interviews and an examination of documents, has found a record of sloppy management and possible financial improprieties including possible self-dealing with top executives.
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I'm not sure exactly when it became an instrument of personal or political self-dealing, though Bill Clinton's disgraceful pardon of Marc Rich just as he was leaving office in 2001 comes to mind.
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Three years ago, Donald J. Trump cast Hillary Clinton as a symbol of Washington self-dealing and corruption, attacking her family foundation for raising money abroad and her use of a private email server.
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But hosting a major diplomatic summit at his own resort and making money off of it is nothing like the self-dealing that Trump's been accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of, Mulvaney said.
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"The government could anchor a tax evasion and false statement case upon the multiple instances of self-dealing, as cataloged by the New York attorney general, between Mr. Trump and the foundation," Hackney continued.
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President Donald Trump will host the 2020 G-7 summit of world leaders at the Trump National Doral Miami, a move Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry were quick to criticize as presidential self-dealing.
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This arrangement is seen by some critics as self-dealing, and by some supporters as doubling down on WeWork (which, particularly in its early days, was not viewed by all landlords as a stable tenant).
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If the President is himself inextricably and unapologetically tethered to any number of commercial endeavors, can we really expect the Trump Justice Department to seriously investigate allegations of corruption or self-dealing among Cabinet officials?
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In yet another alleged self-dealing transaction, the Trump Foundation used $10,000 at a charity auction to buy a painting of Trump himself, which was later hung in a Trump-owned golf resort near Miami.
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Romney (Ronna) Hunter Biden's exploits also make it hard for Biden to launch what should be a broader, and damning, attack on Trump: that he's compromised and corrupted the government through nepotism and self-dealing.
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That's why she filed suit against the Trump Foundation, after an investigation found a shocking pattern of flagrant and repeated illegality -- including willful self-dealing to serve Mr. Trump and his business and political interests.
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Ms. Ross, 53, a lawyer who served from 2003 to 2013 in the State House of Representatives, blasted Mr. Burr, 60, early in the race as a self-dealing politician who exemplified a dysfunctional Washington.
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So, yes, Adam Neumann showed incredible chutzpah with his clowning about and his self-dealing (buying and leasing space to the company, concentration of voting rights, even claiming personal trademark rights to the word "WE").
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Jared Kushner this week was hit with allegations of self-dealing, based on revelations that his family business received large loans from investment firms whose top executives previously met with Kushner in the White House.
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The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt's travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA.
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But rerouting money directly from taxpayers to his pockets would take the self-dealing up a notch, and his comments on Saturday and Sunday seem to indicate he's feeling less shame about that than ever.
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This moment offers no shortage of heroism, and also an unending parade of individual bad behavior; the hand sanitizer hoarder was quickly replaced by stock-selling senators, and tomorrow a new self-dealing scandal beckons.
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But it's laughable to think that this would be a disqualification for a president for whom corruption is a continuing business model and who has watched some cabinet members treat self-dealing as a perk.
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Finally, if the president uses the pardon power to obstruct an investigation into his own campaign, his own family, or himself, that would be a form of self-dealing that would constitute obstruction of justice.
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Ms. Caprara said that what helped Mr. Trump in 2016 was the perception that he was an outsider who would disrupt the status quo in a self-dealing capital and revive manufacturing in the Midwest.
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The second is that he engaged in self-dealing, through an undisclosed and enormously profitable financial stake in a company that supplied the German builder of both the Egyptian subs and several new Israeli warships.
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The charity stockpiled tens of millions in taxpayer dollars with little government oversight, possibly engaged in self-dealing with top executives and paid them significantly higher than the federal salary cap for migrant shelter grants.
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Is this part of the global trend toward "strong man" leaders who are coming to power around the globe, where questions of "right" and "wrong" are ignored in favor of self-interest and self-dealing?
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The Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday claiming that the president's failure to shed his businesses has undermined public trust and violated constitutional bans against self-dealing.
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"If all she had to her name was senator from Massachusetts she would not be an ideal candidate," he said, before citing Ms. Warren's record as a consumer advocate and critic of Washington self-dealing.
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At the time, Trump had announced that his Doral golf resort in Florida was a contender to host next year's summit — a plan that was ultimately scrapped following criticism that it amounted to self-dealing.
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"Given his record of self-dealing and conflicts of interest as governor of Georgia, it is fair to ask if he is fit to run a $140-billion-a-year federal agency," Mr. Faber said.
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"It's about corruption, it's about self-dealing, and they think that this is also a very rich vein because there's a new example every day of something that might not be quite appropriate," Davis said.
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" The "pattern" of illegality, Underwood's office wrote, included "improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.
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"Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more," New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said Tuesday.
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The Trump clan has gone far beyond even normal self-dealing — that is, you get rich after you leave office — and are explicitly profiting during his presidency, while having the nerve to accuse others of nepotism.
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They become the tragic heroes of the expansion, racing to overwhelm the Han Empire and its ambitious and self-dealing leadership before the might of its institutions and infrastructure can be brought to bear against them.
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" And Cicilline said that might come in the form of the data Amazon collects from customers, which he said "may increase the risk of self-dealing or enable Amazon to leverage its platform over other businesses.
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The investigation apparently now includes questions about self-dealing raised last week by a Washington Post report, which said Trump settled legal disputes with Palm Beach, Florida, with money given to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
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Scarpulla said the U.S. Constitution did not immunize Trump from the lawsuit, and Underwood could pursue claims alleging breach of fiduciary duty, improper self-dealing, and misuse of assets belonging to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
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Consider the gutting of the filibuster and the more general move toward an increasingly pure form of majoritarian process — such efforts by Senate Republicans eliminated opportunities to raise objections to self-dealing in the White House.
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The media undersold the threat to many freedoms before election night, and it would be self-dealing, and a disservice, if the only liberty under attack we rose to defend was one that undergirds our industry.
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A New York Times investigation, conducted in nine countries for much of 2019, uncovered a subsidy system that is deliberately opaque, grossly undermines the European Union's environmental goals and is warped by corruption and self-dealing.
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Its cofounder and former CEO, Adam Neumann, has been accused of, among other things, self-dealing, referring to maternity leave as "vacation," and of driving his company into the ground before parachuting away with $2000 billion.
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Similarly, the annual form asks several questions about whether a foundation has been involved in "self-dealing" transactions — which include those in which the people who control a charity use its funds for their own benefit.
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Why it matters: The request comes after Kushner was accused of self-dealing, based on revelations that his family business received substantial loans from investment firms whose top executives met with Kushner at the White House.
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President Donald Trump won't commit to exempting his business from emergency coronavirus stimulus legislation that Congress is negotiating — an episode that would represent one of the most blatant instances of presidential self-dealing in American history.
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The Post said Trump might have violated IRS rules against "self-dealing" by using foundation money to purchase two portraits of himself, which were then hung at his private golf clubs in New York and Florida.
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Last month, in its 2015 tax filing, the foundation itself indicated that it may have violated rules meant to protect against self-dealing, such as using charity resources to benefit one of the organization's central people.
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Falwell was responding to a story in Politico magazine which accused him of presiding over a culture of "self-dealing" at the university, including real estate transactions that would seem to benefit his family and associates.
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But the more serious problem is that he's then used several hundred thousand dollars of that foundation money in deeply questionable ways that may well have run afoul of laws against "self-dealing" with charity money.
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Two weeks after he was elected president, the foundation acknowledged in a tax form that it might have broken federal rules designed to prohibit self-dealing, when charities use their money to benefit principals in their organization.
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"These charges go to the very core of what ails Albany -- a lack of transparency, lack of accountability, and lack of principle joined with an overabundance of greed, cronyism and self-dealing," Bharara said at the time.
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Such abuses, many of which were uncovered by sleuths at the Washington Post during the election campaign, may amount to "self-dealing"—an offence that involves exploiting a position to breach a fiduciary duty for personal benefit.
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Either past personal failings come to light, or petty self-dealing scandals emerge while in office, or they suffer a sudden decline in the appraisal of a mercurial boss who likes a good firing now and again.
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In one of four alleged cases of fraudulent self-dealing, the town of Palm Beach, Florida, agreed to settle a dispute with Trump's Mar-a-Lago club if it made a $100,000 donation to a veterans charity.
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The move by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies came after two prominent Republicans said they intend to summon Pruitt to the Hill to testify about allegations of self-dealing and wasteful spending.
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The Trump team has decided it prefers the picture where the president of the United States is shrouded in a perpetual haze of corruption, self-dealing, and impropriety to whatever clearer picture would emerge from full disclosure.
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The story of how Trump all but assured his book reached the best-seller list was first revealed by Jack O'Donnell, a former Trump executive who detailed his boss's self-dealing in his 1991 tell-all, Trumped!
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Separately, the Donald J. Trump Foundation will close in response to a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general's office, which has accused the Trump family of using the charity for self-dealing and political gain.
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MOSUL, Iraq — In a rare show of deference to the anger of Mosul citizens over government abuses, the Iraqi Parliament on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to remove the province's governor, citing accusations of corruption, self-dealing and negligence.
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But as Google has incorporated travel information, shopping services, or reviews about local restaurants and businesses into its search results, competitors argue that Google is self-dealing and favoring its own services over that of its competitors.
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Mr. Trump still feels so well-protected by his party that he has just named his own golf resort as the site for the next Group of 7 summit in 2020, a brazen act of self-dealing.
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The Washington Post has reported on a number of similar cases of possible self-dealing involving the Trump Foundation, which on Friday was ordered to stop receiving public donations by the New York attorney general. http://bit.
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In an op-ed for The New York Times, Philip Hackney argued that Trump could be prosecuted for evading taxes on some of his "self-dealing" payments, as well as for making false statements on tax filings.
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What Pecora pulled the curtain back on was not just individual dishonesty but systematic self-dealing, stock watering, runaway bonuses, and deceptive webs of holding companies—the "financial instruments" of the 1920s—that sound all too familiar today.
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The Trump administration did not invent graft, influence peddling, or self-dealing, but this era's excesses have revealed the extent to which this particular type of corruption has come to define the Republican Party and hold it together.
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It's tough to have sympathy for someone who voluntarily worked for a notoriously disloyal and self-dealing family, with a long-standing reputation of allegedly refusing to pay workers and doing whatever necessary to maintain power and status.
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It suited a world view, a dream of a fluid, borderless, decentralized financial system beyond the reach of governments and banks, inclined as they inevitably are toward corruption and self-dealing, or at least toward distortions of incentive.
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Aggressive oversight is the only way to assure taxpayers that our president is not self-dealing, and that he and his family are not compromised by foreign officials looking to curry favor for themselves at our country's expense.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump's foundation has acknowledged that it may have run afoul of self-dealing rules that guard against using money meant for charity to benefit principals of the organization, according to its 2000 tax filing.
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He declined to say whether he thinks such a promise should be a standard for presidents' children, struggling with a response to those who say his overseas business was yet another instance of self-dealing within the government.
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His comments come after Politico magazine published a detailed report about Falwell, accusing him of presiding over a culture of "self-dealing" at the university, including real estate transactions that would seem to benefit his family and associates.
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Liberty University students are demanding an "open and clean investigation" into school president Jerry Falwell Jr. after explosive news reports detailing alleged self-dealing and the denigration of students and officials during his tenure at the Christian university.
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For every seemingly career-ending scandal of his presidency — including damning findings in the Mueller report, hush money payments to an adult-film actress and Playboy model and numerous accusations of self-dealing — public sentiment has barely budged.
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He's given it away by surrounding himself with cronies and criminals, by running a corrupt administration filled with self-dealing Cabinet secretaries, by signing massive tax cuts for corporations and betraying his promise to pass sweeping ethics reforms.
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The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, accused the third-largest U.S. bank of "self-dealing and imprudent investing" by steering 401(k)contributions to its Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Date funds.
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When the president brags that he is unencumbered by the well-developed and familiar rules that govern public servants, mandate transparency, and constrain self-dealing, McGahn needs to define what standards—if any—the administration respects or aspires to.
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The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit in June claiming that the Trump Foundation violated state and federal laws and engaged in persistent self-dealing by using the charity's funds for his 85033 presidential campaign and his businesses.
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The Donald J. Trump Foundation has admitted to violating the Internal Revenue Service's "self-dealing" rules, which bar the leaders of a charity from using it to enrich their family or their businesses, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported.
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In the 19th century, states tackling big projects, like building schools, prisons and railroads, that required diligent oversight and presented ample opportunities for self-dealing made "neglect" and "malfeasance" grounds for removing officers authorized to serve for fixed terms.
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It's a message that worked in 2016 for Mr. Trump, who cast Ms. Clinton as the avatar of establishment self-dealing, a past-her-prime creature of Washington unable to adjust to the times and to produce real change.
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Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, believes the Menendez allegations represent a more traditional breed of corruption than the Trump administration's brave new world of brazen self-dealing.
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Shareholders alleged that directors sanctioned Ellison's self-dealing - and also claimed that Oracle's board members were too entwined with Ellison to be entrusted with the decision of whether the company should sue him and other directors over the NetSuite deal.
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House Democrats are investigating Trump's apparent self-dealing; the chamber's Oversight and Judiciary committees sent letters to the administration last month demanding details about his plan to host the G7 summit at his resort and Pence's visit to the Ireland resort.
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It's been suspected that many firms in the financial services industry have been self-dealing, while entities in other sectors, including some prominent universities, have been accused of charging their employees excessive fees in order to keep their own costs down.
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"As a result of years of gross mismanagement and sometimes outright fraud, Mr. Depp lost tens of millions of dollars and has been forced to dispose of significant assets to pay for TMG's self-dealing and gross misconduct," reads the complaint.
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Underwood said her office's 22016-month investigation, begun under her predecessor Eric Schneiderman, uncovered "extensive unlawful political coordination" by the foundation with Trump's campaign, as well as "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit Trump's personal, business and political interests.
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"As a result of years of gross mismanagement and sometimes outright fraud, Mr. Depp lost tens of millions of dollars and has been forced to dispose of significant assets to pay for TMG's self-dealing and gross misconduct," read the complaint.
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Sander Levin, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen highlighting a media report that said Trump's foundation may have violated self-dealing laws by using the foundation's funds for personal use.
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"These factors alone are not cause for revoking tax-exempt status or imposing tax on self-dealing, but they do raise questions about the nature of the relationship between the donor and museum that perhaps merit further scrutiny," Hatch said.
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His firms were paid nearly $88 million by the campaign in 2016, when he served as digital director and drew grumbles of self-dealing, though most of that money most likely was passed through to Facebook and other platforms for ads.
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She said the foundation engaged in "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit Trump's personal, business and political interests, including a buying a portrait of Trump for $10,000 at a charity auction and using it to decorate a Trump golf course.
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The nonprofit has engaged in potential self-dealing with its top executives, stockpiled tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and lent out millions for real estate purchases, acting more like a bank than a traditional charity, according to records and interviews.
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" Ms. Underwood's office sued the Trump Foundation in June, charging it with "improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.
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The case for impeachment is about self-dealing and self-enrichment as well as obstruction of justice, open indifference to and contempt for the lives of American citizens struck by disaster, as well as passivity in the face of foreign attack.
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That position on FIFA's executive board granted him a vote on the awarding of valuable hosting rights and a say in other contracts during an era when many of those transactions, investigations later showed, were rife with bribery and self-dealing.
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And the New York State attorney general's office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit against Mr. Trump's charitable foundation, accusing it and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
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Not least because of his own self-dealing — the hotel down the block, the failure to fully divorce himself from the Trump Organization, all the rest — the White House became ground zero for grasping lobbyists and ethically challenged, self-promoting staffers.
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Against that backdrop, the prince's supporters argue that the anti-corruption campaign aims to recapture hundreds of billions of dollars that have leaked from the state budget through graft and self-dealing — money he needs to fund his development plans.
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The New York State attorney general yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors, accusing the charity and the Trump family of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
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Mr. Trump is also, of course, seeking to drag former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, down to his level and implicate them in the same kind of self-dealing that he and his own family stand accused of.
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President Donald Trump will host the 2020 G-7 summit of world leaders at the Trump National Doral Miami, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday at a raucous briefing, fending off questions about presidential self-dealing.
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WASHINGTON — The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed suit on Wednesday against President Trump's inaugural committee, accusing the organization of wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars in violation of a local law prohibiting self-dealing by nonprofit organizations.
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The reputation of the federal work force is not helped by revelations of mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs, self-dealing among regulators overseeing the oil industry, swanky "conferences" for General Services Administration employees and scandals at the Secret Service.
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After all, the petty, self-dealing pols that have been the norm in Baltimore for generations—Catherine Pugh is a particularly clownish example, but not quite an outlier—wouldn't be able to make any of this work on their own.
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But new reporting suggests that the man once hailed as "America's mayor" was simultaneously pursuing his own fortune, and his apparent self-dealing is now under such intense scrutiny that even the President is seeking distance from his personal lawyer.
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Emoluments rise again All we really have when it comes to presidential self-dealing is a ban on what the Constitution calls emoluments -- those are titles or gifts from foreign or domestic governments beyond the salary all Presidents are paid.
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Beyond that, the levels of self-dealing Trump is enmeshed in are something no Republican Congress member would have defended as recently as two years ago and something that all Democrats can agree is bad despite their own internal ideological differences.
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G7 walk back The President did defuse one potential political nightmare over the weekend -- backing off plans to hold next year's G7 summit at one of his Florida resorts, after his initial announcement caused outrage and claims of blatant self-dealing and corruption.
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And it names a majority of the board, including me, as individuals — alleging breach of fiduciary duty and self-dealing — saying the costs of the plan are not fair to those who have already paid for their own central air-conditioning systems.
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This is just one unfortunate example of the historic self-dealing among regime entities that enriches the Ayatollahs and the security establishment at the expense of ordinary Iranian citizens, who are left with only the bill in the absence of legitimate commerce.
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Earlier this week, Politico released a searing investigation into Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. which described a "culture of fear and self-dealing," coursing through the school and highlighted documents that seemed to cast doubt on the conservative Christian's pious image.
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Last month The Washington Post revealed that the Trump foundation had admitted to the Internal Revenue Service that it violated a legal prohibition against "self-dealing," which bars nonprofit leaders from using their charity's money to help themselves, their businesses or their families.
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He quit his unofficial post as White House regulatory czar, not because of moral compulsion, but because he knew that The New Yorker was about to drop an article revealing the extent of his self-dealing on behalf of his refinery company.
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Any suggestion that he would put an end to the self-dealing and personal enrichment of political insiders is contradicted by Trump himself, who hasn't provided any concrete assurances that he won't use the presidency to elevate his and his children's fortunes.
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But his immediate family's complicated and mostly undisclosed business interests are raising questions about what that accusation means in a kingdom where the law has so far included little or no regulation of what other countries have labeled and outlawed as self-dealing.
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Add in the investigations closing in on Trump's many scandals, from tax cheating to self-dealing in office to possible collusion with Russia, all of which give him every incentive to shut down freedom of the press and independence of law enforcement.
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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring's office will not say whether he will investigate Liberty University in light of a recent bombshell Politico article detailing alleged self-dealing and other controversial actions by the college's president, Jerry Falwell Jr., at the nonprofit university.
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Underwood, a Democrat, in June said a 21-month probe begun under her predecessor Eric Schneiderman uncovered "extensive unlawful political coordination" by the Donald J. Trump Foundation with Trump's White House campaign, and "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit the president.
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But by pumping so much money through the hands of Ukrainian officials and businessmen — often the same people — the surge in military spending has also held back efforts to defeat the corruption and self-dealing that many see as Ukraine's most dangerous enemy.
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Democrats immediately portrayed the plan as a blatant act of self-dealing corruption, and ethics lawyers said payments from the visiting delegations could violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which forbids the president from accepting gifts and funding from foreign governments.
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The progressive Democrat cited a report by a nonpartisan good government group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which found "unprecedented" corruption in the Trump administration, as well as other reports of self-dealing among administration officials and the president's family members.
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When Trump announced his bid for the presidency in 2015, much of the political and media establishment, including many leading Republicans, thought the idea of a self-dealing, conspiracy theorizing reality TV star winning the White House was a pretty funny joke.
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No institutional investors were eager to buy the stock, as headline after headline documented the excesses of Neumann&aposs leadership style, WeWork&aposs partying culture, its odd governance structure, and pages and pages of his alleged self-dealing disclosed in the prospectus.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "They haven't drafted the articles of impeachment yet, but Democrats say Trump's impeachable offenses include abuses of power through self-dealing, betrayal of national security in the service of foreign interests, and corruption of our elections that undermine our democratic system.
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BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers on Tuesday strongly criticized corruption and self-dealing in the bloc's $65-billion-a-year farm subsidy program but were sharply divided over how or whether to reform a system that has become a third rail of European politics.
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Committee members should drill deep on Cohen's knowledge of the inaugural committee's financial practices, including its receipt of donations from foreign nationals (either directly or indirectly through third-party straw donors) and any potential embezzlement or self-dealing by inaugural committee officials.
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After a disastrous response to its IPO prospectus, disinterest from potential investors, and reporting on Neumann&aposs self-dealing and questionable leadership qualities, We abandoned its IPO plans and SoftBank forced Neumann to step down as CEO and chairman and to cash out.
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Republican President-elect Donald Trump's charitable Foundation appears to have told the IRS that it violated a ban on so-called "self-dealing" and had transferred income or assets to a "disqualified person," The Washington Post reported, citing copies of the group's 2015 tax filings.
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Other criticisms, like the appearance of self-dealing in the $5.9 million purchase of a trademark from CEO Adam Neumann that was later canceled or a complicated corporate-governance structure, have put more pressure on WeWork to fully justify its lofty valuation targets, Rao said.
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Nadler said the president's pitch to host next year's meeting of world leaders at Trump National Doral Miami is "only the latest in a troubling pattern of corruption and self-dealing by the President" and may violate both the foreign and domestic Emoluments Clauses.
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" In his lawsuit, Depp's lawyers claim, "As a result of years of gross mismanagement and sometimes outright fraud, Mr. Depp lost tens of millions of dollars and has been forced to dispose of significant assets to pay for TMG's self-dealing and gross misconduct.
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He was one of several political figures in Kiev whom reformers and Western diplomats saw as a worrying indicator of a return to past corrupt practices, two years after a revolution that was supposed to put a stop to self-dealing by those in power.
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Mr. Kushner's achievements have not only been paltry, but he is directly implicated in some of the president's most destructive — and self-destructive — decisions, as well as in some of the most serious accusations of self-dealing that have been made against the administration.
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The New York State attorney general's office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
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In a new legal challenge to President Trump, the Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming that the president's failure to shed his businesses has undermined public trust and violated constitutional bans against self-dealing.
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Editorial Lawsuits filed this week by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia and by nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress may be the best chance to hold President Trump accountable for unconstitutional self-dealing, since the Republican-controlled Congress won't.
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But for Democrats, there's no better evidence with which to paint a picture of what they say is a self-dealing, obstructive leader with a kingly view of his own powers than the highlight reel already compiled by the most television-obsessed president in history.
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" In a Monday letter, Cummings said that the committee has the "responsibility to determine whether Donald Trump, while he was a candidate for President, illegally aided his campaign or engaged in self-dealing to benefit himself or his family members in violation of federal law.
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And over the last two weeks, lulus have become a byword for Albany's political self-dealing, after news that eight senators — all members of a ruling coalition led by Republicans — had received tens of thousands in such payments for jobs they did not hold.
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It's a risky message from a President who's counting on his political instincts that tell him swing state voters aren't convinced by Democrats' impeachment pitch -- and one whose presidency has been dripping in allegations of corruption, self-dealing and infringing the limits of presidential power.
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And in one area, Mr. Trump remained quite inflexible: He made clear he has no intention of selling his businesses and stepping decisively away from corrupting his presidency with an exponentially enhanced version of the self-dealing he accused Hillary Clinton of engaging in.
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Today, it's the newly declared position of one of the parties (and who knows, maybe soon both parties) that the chief law enforcement officer of the United States is subject to presidential control and direction and removal for any reason, including self-dealing reasons.
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has taken a leave of absence in the wake of the revelation that she took about $22018,2250 from groups with stakes in the work of state and local government agencies, in apparent "self-dealing" arrangements involving her self-published children's books.
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has taken a leave of absence in the wake of the revelation that she took about $800,000 from groups with stakes in the work of state and local government agencies, in apparent "self-dealing" arrangements involving her self-published children's books.
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New WikiLeaks-provided emails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cash operation: No matter what the stated humanitarian goals of the Clinton Foundation, every fiber and sinew of the organization is wrapped in self-dealing, self-enrichment, fraud, and corruption.
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During his time as speaker of the House from 1869 to 1875, Blaine had in a series of letters articulated the precise details of his self-dealing, which mostly included pushing laws to benefit the railroad companies who, in turn, dished him stock in their growing operations.
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There is already evidence that the Trump Foundation has engaged in self-dealing—for example, that Trump has used the Foundation to pay for personal legal fees—and that Trump directed money owed to him to the Foundation, possibly to avoid paying income tax on it.
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Trump also engaged in self-dealing when he used $100,000 to settle legal claims against his Mar-A-Lago resort and made a $158,000 payment to settle legal claims against his Trump National Golf Club in 2008 involving a hole-in-one tournament, according to the lawsuit.
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Without even the simplest step of transparency of Trump's global conflicts of interest, American foreign policy will continue to fall under a cloud of suspicion both at home and abroad, fraught with accusations of manipulation by foreign governments and self-dealing by Trump and his administration.
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A source close to Sessions says that the former attorney general realized that Whitaker was "self-dealing" after reports surfaced in September that Whitaker had spoken with Kelly and had discussed plans to become the No. 2 at the Justice Department if Rosenstein was forced to resign.
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This comes after the company&aposs initial-public-offering ambitions imploded under a barrage of headlines about the hard-partying tequila-drinking culture created by founder and ousted CEO Adam Neumann — along with questions over its corporate governance, business model, and self-dealing in the executive suite.
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Read more: WeWork cofounders Adam and Rebekah Neumann are close friends with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and invited them to Rebekah's extravagant 40th birthday bash in ItalyInvestors had proposed ousting Neumann by leveling legal threats at him over "self-dealing," The New York Times said.
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Introduced as a potential 2020 presidential primary contender, the Massachusetts Democrat took aim at President Donald Trump, casting him as the product of a rotten system rather than an outlier or fluke and saying his administration fit a decades-old pattern of self-dealing in Washington.
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In 2014 Congress voted to cap individual contributions to a federal PAC at $0003,000, but then, in an astonishing act of self-dealing, gave the PACs run by the two political parties — and only those PACs — a $106,500 limit, money they could divvy up however they choose.
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An elected official using his office to financially benefit his family is basically the textbook definition of corruption, and the Post's new reporting is simply the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the Trump family normalizing self-dealing in a manner unprecedented in American history.
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But starting impeachment proceedings now is not a "traumatic recourse," though you support the inquiry, but rather a much-needed and lawful means to address the traumatic harm that President Trump's callous, corrupt, lawless and self-dealing practices have inflicted on our country and our residents.
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The other is a culture of self-enrichment and self-dealing in which corporate C.E.O.s, lobbyists and foreign officials seeking the first family's favor hold parties at Mar-a-Lago and at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, a couple of blocks from the White House.
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"As alleged, the Academy has lost its way and abandoned the recording industry, instead focusing on self-dealing and turning blind eye to the 'boys' club' environment, obvious improprieties and conflicts of interest," her attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor and Michael J. Willemin, told CNN in a statement.
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Other examples of self-dealing abound: There are also mixed cases, such as Trump giving Foundation money to the Palm Beach Police Foundation, which then in turn spent large sums of money on renting out the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago resort for its annual gala.
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To make matters worse, the SoftBank rescue package includes an unprecedented $1.7 billion exit package for WeWork's CEO and founder Adam Neumann, who was forced to step down in September after his poor judgment and self-dealing helped stall the IPO, which was supposed to happen that same month.
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Hand-in-glove with Wall Street, Clinton got rid of the Glass Steagall Act, which removed the separation between commercial banks, insurers and investment banks, allowing the self-dealing manipulation of mortgages and interest rates and accelerating the shifting of huge wealth into the hands of a few.
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One might have expected lawmakers to be more circumspect about even the appearance of self-dealing after what happened to the Republican Chris Collins, the former congressman from New York, who was sentenced to 26 months in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to insider trading charges.
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Wall Street's elite, clearly guilty of systemic self-dealing that amplified the disaster, was on its knees, but instead of "Old Testament justice," Mr. Obama slyly offered to stand between Wall Street and "the pitchforks," a perilous stance of enormous political cost from which he extracted no concessions.
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The smarter path, to which a certain amount of liberal punditry and Democratic strategizing is already pointing, is to focus on Trumpian corruption, the sleazy, sordid, self-dealing side of his administration and the obvious reluctance of congressional Republicans to execute more than a cursory sort of oversight.
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In the case of Donald Trump, there was risk in the policy, but the central question was always about the candidate himself: about his fitness for the office, his ability to execute its basic duties, the effect that his demagogy and self-dealing would have on civic norms.
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If Republicans are willing to challenge Trump on his foreign policy, including the disposition of American troops abroad, then the difference when it comes to Ukraine — as well as other scandals, like the president's continued corruption and self-dealing — may just be that they don't see a problem.
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Instead, the tone was set, well, by his entire pre-presidential career, but let's say especially by his campaign-season hiring of Manafort, a statement that in place of elite self-enrichment through New World Order synergies, Trump was offering corruption without varnish, self-dealing without ideological self-justification.
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The accusation of self-dealing by former Rusada executives is just the latest scandal involving the agency, which in recent years has been accused of manipulating or covering up failed drug tests by Russian athletes and then working to sabotage an investigation into its conduct by global antidoping regulators.
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Critics have long pointed out that We is saddled with a self-evidently faulty business model that leaves it open to real estate downturns, and that its co-founder and just-pushed-out chief executive, Adam Neumann, was a walking parody of high-minded impulsivity and self-dealing.
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" Chopra, who agreed to speak only about antitrust generally and not about Amazon specifically, explained, "If you do both, you will structure your marketplace in a way that ultimately is self-dealing, and you will use the data from those who sell on your marketplace to benefit yourself.
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And James Stewart's portrayal of a small-town nobody and his quixotic battle against self-dealing politicians still claims pride of place as Hollywood's most stirring, convincing and timeless reminder that the Constitution is a sacred trust that all American citizens — and their representatives — have responsibility for bearing.
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"Democratic leaders see the evidence from the Zelenskiy call as damning enough to impeach—and easy enough for the public to digest—in isolation, without drawing in allegations of obstruction of justice, self-dealing and other wrongdoing," The Washington Post's Philip Rucker, Rachael Bade, and Robert Costa wrote Wednesday.
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While the focus of the Putnam and Wells Fargo suits was about using their own funds — called "self-dealing" in industry parlance — the significance of rejecting the Vanguard argument suggests that as long as plans can justify higher fees, they'll be within their legal right to do so.
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In its series on the Trump Foundation, The Washington Post reported that Trump may have violated U.S. Internal Revenue Service rules against "self-dealing" by using foundation money to purchase two portraits of himself, which were then hung at his private golf clubs in New York and Florida.
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What Trump is up against is something he never had a clue existed and could therefore never be prepared for: the structured phalanx of professional, disciplined, honest civil servants in the intelligence and diplomatic communities who will never let him get away with self-dealing if it subverts global democracy.
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Another concern was self-dealing: in one case in 2006, a California-based DAF provider had boasted in its earlier marketing materials that setting up an account could "benefit the donor or the donor's family" and that the donor's children could be paid or granted fellowships direct from a DAF.
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" New York sues Trump foundation over self-dealing - Fox News: "The New York state attorney general's office on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation for alleged illegal conduct and 'unlawful political coordination' to benefit personal and business interests, drawing a harsh Twitter rebuke from President Trump.
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"The self-dealing analysis is hardly surprising considering that the Fox/FEG executive who negotiated and agreed to the original ad revenue split was also representing Hulu's interests at the time," Lichtman wrote in a 68-page ruling about Dan Fawcett, the president of digital media at Fox Entertainment Group.
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The Times reported Southwest Key had acted more like a bank than a charity by "potential self-dealing with its top executives," stockpiling tens of millions of dollars and making real estate loans, including one that developers used to turn a former Walmart into a shelter that Southwest Key rents.
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That article, citing "more than two dozen current and former high-ranking Liberty University officials and close associates of Falwell," described a so-called "culture of fear and self-dealing" at the university, which was founded by Southern Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell Sr., who also co-founded the Moral Majority.
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House lawmakers concerned about the possibility of self-dealing and other hidden conflicts of interest in Puerto Rico's $123 billion bankruptcy introduced a measure on Wednesday intended to strengthen reporting requirements, after one of the case's most influential consultants was shown to have an undisclosed stake in Puerto Rico's debt.
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It was that in attacking post-Cold War idealism and the culture of legal self-dealing in D.C., Trump was offering a unified rejection of the entire way that American public servants of both parties have claimed to harmonize republican service and self-enrichment, the entire ideological edifice justifying cashing in.
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But it sure smacks of the incestuous, corrupt, self-dealing behavior that Americans have come to expect from their elites and for some insane reason, this is what Democrats want to fixate on over the next many months as we head into perhaps the most critical election of our lifetime.
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Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, said the degree of self-dealing in the S-270 is so egregious and comes at a time when you've got regulators and politicians and folks across the country looking at Silicon Valley and wondering if there's an appropriate level of self-awareness.
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If you can't send a signal to the market by voting with your dollars, then you should vote with your vote, and push politicians and regulators to put strong rules in place around privacy and self-dealing, and break companies up to create more competition for user trust and goodwill inside those rules.
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Someone like Neumann, and Son's entire model with his Vision Fund, is to take inputs, combine them into products worth less than their cost, and plug up the deficit through the capital markets in hopes of acquiring market power later or of just self-dealing so the losses are placed onto someone else.
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"Cynicism is a state where you accept as normal a state of corruption and degradation and self-dealing in our politics and basically throw up your hands," says Liu, who's now an author and founder of Citizen University, a nonprofit group that teaches Americans from all political backgrounds how to cultivate civic power.
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" The Washington Post first reported that the organization marked "yes" on the 2015 tax form when asked on the IRS form whether it had engaged in illegal "self-dealing" in recent years and it also marked "yes" when the form asked whether it had transferred "income or assets to a disqualified person.
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He galvanized an improbable coalition of blue collars fed up with Beltway dysfunction and self-dealing, while her white collars withered in enthusiasm, unable to sense the tectonic shift underway for years and foolhardy enough to think that the whole cozy establishment could not possibly be toppled by a troglodyte named Trump.
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The premise that President Trump would root out corruption and self-dealing by politicians and their families flies in the face of any semblance of reality, given the utter lack of transparency with respect to his own finances, which he promised to release, and that of his children and son-in-law.
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An Everest of evidence exists of the corrosive impact of influence-peddling and special-interest money, of back-room deals in which insiders manipulate bills voted on by Congress and state legislatures, of blatant self-dealing and conflicts of interest spinning out from the revolving door between industry and the regulatory community.
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Eventually, it became too much for even the Trump administration to bear, and now he's gone, but not before he gave Democrats an endless amount of ammunition to use in painting the Trump administration as complicit in the corruption and self-dealing Trump promised, in 2016, to drain from the swamp of Washington.
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The roster is shredded by injuries, and the team's ever-mysterious payroll remains shredded by the disastrous anti-acumen and self-dealing shamelessness of the team's owners, which means that the Mets' lineup has lately been a collection of banjo-hitting baseball refugees and professionals grimacing through grinding joints and various impacted strains and sprains.
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The local economy was in good order, and aside from an early foofaraw around his office's use of public funds (a strong predilection for luxury vehicles and damask drapes gave rise to the nickname "Coupe Deval"), his time in office was free of the kind of self-dealing that is common in the Commonwealth.
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We need to point this out regularly, giving visible attention to the violations of civil liberties, the losses of those cut off from health care, the destruction of our environment, the self-dealing, privatization-for-profit of government services, and the feckless instability that a Twitter-based foreign policy is already creating around the globe.
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As then Vice-Chancellor Leo Strine explained in a 2006 opinion mostly denying a motion to dismiss a shareholder derivative suit, AIG's board formed a special committee that first rejected self-dealing claims against some directors, then changed its mind and made a deal with the lead shareholder to allow plaintiffs' lawyers to move ahead with some claims.
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"The suit claims that Andrew and Korp have assumed control and access to Aldrin's "personal credit cards, bank accounts, trust money, space memorabilia, space artifacts, social media accounts, and all elements of the Buzz Aldrin brand," and that the duo has effectively taken control of Aldrin's "publicity, contacts, and clientele for their own self-dealing and enrichment.
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Pierce also theorized that influencer deals made by parents on behalf of their children could be invalid unless the earnings are owned entirely by the child, because a parent consenting to the use of their child's image in advertising in order to enrich himself would be "self-dealing and in breach of the covenant of good faith and dealing".
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In one of the starkest examples of how the Trump administration is normalizing the sort of self-dealing that would have been unfathomable in previous eras, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced on Thursday that next June's G7 summit will be held at a resort that President Donald Trump still owns and profits from in Doral, Florida.
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The report covers the GSA's evaluation of whether the lease violated clauses in the Constitution designed to prevent corruption and self-dealing by the President as well as its analysis of whether Trump's ongoing interest in the hotel violates a section of the lease that says no elected official of the US government can profit from it.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Wednesday defended the Trump Foundation amid questions that the GOP nominee may have violated laws against self-dealing through his charitable foundation.
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The move also comes after the Trump Foundation admitted to "self-dealing" and transferring "income or assets to a disqualified person" on the foundation's 2015 tax form, which can occur when someone affiliated with the foundation, such as a trustee or attorney, becomes involved in an activity that benefits their own interests instead of the entity's.
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Other than being an interesting bit of trivia, there was a legal catch with this find, Fahrenthold reported: If Trump did not give the painting to a charity — or find a way to use it for charitable purposes — he may have violated IRS rules against "self-dealing," which prohibit nonprofit leaders from spending charity money on themselves.
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The prime minister was hit by two new accusations shortly before he left for Washington: that he improperly authorized the sale of German-made submarines to Egypt, and that he engaged in self-dealing, through an undisclosed stake in a company that supplied the German builder of both the Egyptian subs and several new Israeli warships.
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It is especially damaging for the court to rule with such unmistakable partisan implications when many still hope to see it stand as a forum of principle against the Trump administration's self-dealing, attacks on immigrants and other vulnerable groups, and general disregard for the procedural regularity that is the day-to-day life of the rule of law.
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The suit alleges that the president's daughter Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser and former senior executive at the Trump Organization, was involved in the discussions about the space rentals and was warned in writing on at least two occasions that the hotel's pricing demands could lead to charges of self-dealing against the incoming president.
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Arrington allegedly stole money from his employer, and is now facing years in prison; Adam Neumann presided over WeWork as its valuation ballooned, and when it suddenly deflated—an event sparked partly by his own self-dealing and impacting not just his investors but many of his own employees—he still walked away with a deal for $1.7 billion.
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There's also a chance that Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, an area in which he brought no previous expertise or evident value other than his last name, solidify the perception of the Democratic hopeful as representative of a self-dealing Washington culture who is too tired, too conventional, and too compromised to take the fight to Trump.
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Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanFive things to know about Trump's call with Ukraine leader Gaetz: Some lawmakers reviewed transcript at White House DC statehood push faces long odds despite record support MORE (Ohio), the top Republican on the Oversight Committee, said at Thursday's hearing as he brought up recent self-dealing allegations against D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans (D).
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That is especially true when one thinks about what can and does go wrong when unaccountable and nontransparent intermediaries can freely interfere with competition and market forces; intercept private communications, inside information, and trade secrets; inject biases, discrimination, and self-dealing; influence mass choices, behaviors, views, and cultural norms; and intervene whenever they want as self-appointed censor, arbiter, and regulator.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's campaign manager defended the Trump Foundation amid questions about whether the GOP nominee may have violated laws against self-dealing through his charitable foundation.
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The indictment, along with interviews and other documents, show Mr. Parnas, Mr. Fruman and their associates as somewhat hapless operators, scrambling recklessly to use their new connections to the highest levels of American politics to seek financial gain while guiding Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, into a Ukrainian political culture rife with self-dealing and ever-shifting alliances.
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WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has started talks about his future role at the company, including the possibility of giving up the CEO titleThe New York Stock Exchange appeared to troll WeWork on TwitterWeWork's board reportedly meets Monday to discuss pushing out Adam Neumann — and his alleged 'self-dealing' and marijuana use may come into playWeWork board members are talking about ousting CEO Adam Neumann amid IPO turmoil
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Joe BidenJoe BidenTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Warren to protest with striking Chicago teachers Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE's presidential campaign ripped The New York Times for "giving top billing" to Peter Schweizer after the newspaper published an op-ed from the "Clinton Cash" author that contends that the former vice president was "self-dealing" in Ukraine during President Obama's second term.
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Owens: I am not aware of any other private foundation that has had the degree of involvement in a political campaign as the Trump Foundation has had; there are examples of foundations making grants for non-charitable purposes, foundation directors violating their fiduciary duties, foundation directors using foundation assets and funds for their personal benefit ("self-dealing"), but very few, if any, have demonstrated such a pattern of violation and of such variety.
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Trump won because he was willing to say loudly what his supporters believed deeply; because, in his disdain for what politicians are supposed to be and do, he exuded authenticity; because he was hated by the people his base found hateful; because he had an opponent who, in the minds of his supporters, epitomized corruption and self-dealing; and because he offered radical cures for a country he diagnosed as desperately ill.
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Amid prodding by my colleagues on these issues, he made only the vaguest of promises about firewalling himself off from his companies and investments, while constantly stressing that no clear conflict-of-interest laws govern the presidency, playing down the appearance of corruption as inconsequential and basically suggesting that he intends to continue the kind of seemingly self-dealing moments (photo ops with business partners, self-interested comments to foreign politicians) that have already cropped up during his transition.
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But the investigative news site ProPublica reported Friday that Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia Ivanka Trump talking to lawmakers about gun reform legislation: report MORE, who serves as a senior White House adviser, negotiated how much the inauguration would pay for stays at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, raising concerns about possible self-dealing.
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His campaign hopes to regain its footing, and the upper hand, by refocusing public attention on the latest scandal to embroil Mr. Netanyahu: Allegations that he improperly authorized the sale of advanced German-made submarines to Egypt without the approval of top military officials, possibly at a cost to Israel's national security, and engaged in self-dealing, through a financial stake in a company that supplied the shipyard that built the Egyptian subs and several Israeli warships.
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Based in the city, Concacaf is one of soccer's six regional governing bodies, but it perhaps felt the most damage from the scandal: three of its former presidents were charged by United States authorities, and an internal probe later found multiple examples of rogue behavior, including self-dealing, indiscriminate use of private jets and even the recruitment of a private detective to snoop on individuals, including the former U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, who still sits on the FIFA Council.
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A judge in New York has rejected the Trump Foundation's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed in the state alleging that the organization, which was chaired by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and three of his children, was involved in self-dealing and misuse of charity assets.
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Prominent among the category of high crimes and misdemeanors would be "a scheme of peculation or oppression" (a concern of James Madison, who was focusing on both economic self-dealing and violations of civil rights); interference with the democratic process in procuring the office "in the first instance" (Mason, who was concerned with corruption and bribery in connection with presidential elections); betrayal of "trust to foreign powers" (Madison again, who was concerned with disloyalty); and trampling "upon the rights of freemen" (an anonymous commentator in Massachusetts, writing under the name of Cassius, who was concerned with invasions of liberty).
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Who would have thought that when Trump asked former national security advisor John BoltonJohn BoltonHouse panel advances resolution outlining impeachment inquiry Democrats raise stakes with impeachment vote The Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens MORE to resign because he couldn't get along with people, that those people were the network of shady, sneaky agents of Trump's self-dealing, headed by Trump's personal attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiDemocrats raise stakes with impeachment vote Giuliani hits back at Trump's nominee for Russia ambassador: He 'doesn't know what he's talking about' Overnight Defense: Pentagon shares images of al-Baghdadi raid | Bolton called for impeachment inquiry deposition | Russia ambassador pick pressed on surveillance flight treaty MORE?
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