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Undated: List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump

Undated: CREW has pursued aggressive litigation against the Trump administration, and as of January 2018 had filed 180 lawsuits against what it called the "most unethical presidency" in U.S. history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington


Timeinc.net presents a very thorough article about Trump, his golf courses, his love of golf, related political issues, lawsuits, Trump remarks, taxes, Muslims, climate change, Middle East business interests, and much more
http://amp.timeinc.net/golf/tour-news/2017/08/01/president-donald-trump-relationship-golf-more-complicated-now?source=dam

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June 29: In covering a story, a media outlet is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that [for example] a lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified that way. ...  Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are permitted — no, we are obligated — to analyze [a] case’s viability ....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

June 2016: An analysis by USA Today published in June 2016 found that over the previous three decades, Trump and his businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal cases in U.S. federal courts and state court, an unprecedented number for a U.S. presidential candidate.[1] Of the 3,500 suits, Trump or one of his companies were plaintiffs in 1,900; defendants in 1,450; and bankruptcy, third party, or other in 150.[1] Trump was named in at least 169 suits in federal court.[2] A number of other cases (over 150) were in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (covering Broward County, Florida) since 1983.[3] In about 500 cases, judges dismissed plaintiffs' claims against Trump. In hundreds more, cases ended with the available public record unclear about the resolution.[1] Where there was a clear resolution, Trump won 451 times, and lost 38.
[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump

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August 25: What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower

In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where he now lives, maintains his private offices and hosts his presidential campaign.

The men were putting in 12-hour shifts with inadequate safety equipment at subpar wages that their contractor paid sporadically, if at all. A lawyer for many of the Poles demanded that the workers be paid or else he would serve Trump with a lien on the property. One Polish worker even went to Trump's office to ask him for money in person, according to sworn testimony and a deposition filed under oath in a court case.

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For help, Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a 6-ft. 5-in., 285-lb. labor consultant, FBI informant and future officer of the Teamsters Union. "Donald told me he had difficulties ...," Sullivan later testified in the case. "That he had some illegal Polish employees on the job."

"I think you are nuts," Sullivan testified that he told Trump. "You are here negotiating a lease in Atlantic City for a casino license and you are telling me you have got illegal employees on the job."
http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/

October 25: It takes a particularly complicated type of merger to unite Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Wall Street in their skepticism of it ... Donald Trump, addressing a crowd in Gettysburg, said his administration would not approve [the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner]  because “it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.”
[See more at November 10, 2017]
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/att-time-warner-boo-hiss/505367/

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February 9:  A lawsuit is ... pending in federal court in New York, alleging that Mr. Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting payment from foreign governments at his hotels and golf courses around the world. It is one of dozens of lawsuits filed against him in recent weeks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics.html

March 23: The federal agency overseeing Donald Trump's lease for a luxury hotel in Washington ruled Thursday that his inauguration as president doesn't violate terms of the agreement barring government officials from profiting from the property.

In a letter to the Trump Organization, General Services Administration Contracting Officer Kevin M. Terry says he has determined that the president's business is in "full compliance" because profits from the hotel won't go directly to Trump while he's president.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-03-23/feds-trump-dc-hotel-not-in-violation-of-government-lease

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May 11: [Regarding the number of lawsuits filed against Trump and his administration]: This is not normal, and the way the courts are responding is the way I think we want the courts to respond, which is adhering to the rule of law,” said Deepak Gupta, counsel for the plaintiffs in the emoluments suit.

The Boston Globe reported last week that Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since taking office, nearly three times as many as his three predecessors.

... the sheer number of lawsuits Trump is facing — and the success they are having so far — is what’s unprecedented. ... Some experts say the pace of litigation against the administration is the result of Trump’s heavy use of executive orders.
http://thehill.com/regulation/332858-lawsuits-piling-up-against-trump

Undated:
District court proceedings [allegation  that the defendant, President Donald Trump, is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause ...

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Trump filed a motion to dismiss on June 9, 2017.[20] on the grounds that the plaintiffs had no right to sue[21] and that the described conduct was not illegal.[22] A response to the motion to dismiss was filed on August 4, 2017, with a DOJ reply due by September 22, 2017.[23] A full answer from DOJ lawyers to the facts alleged in the complaint was due on August 11, 2017.[24] Oral arguments were expected October 18, 2017.[25]

On December 21, 2017, the motion to dismiss was granted; Judge George B. Daniels held that plaintiffs lacked standing.[14]

Appeal ...
CREW plans to appeal the dismissal of the suit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CREW_v._Trump

Update: On February 18, 2018, Plaintiff’s appealed.

Update:
On April 24, 2018, Plaintiff’s filed a 
brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/lawsuit/crew-v-donald-j-trump/

July 4: Justice Department anti-fraud expert resigns, disturbed by Trump's 'stunning' conduct ... [Hui Chen, an anti-corruption expert
, said] ..."on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest ... and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts ... including the "cognitive dissonance" of "trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/justice-hui-chen-resignation/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

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July 24: A federal judge has turned down a watchdog group's demand that President Donald Trump's controversial voter fraud commission be forced to conduct a privacy assessment before gathering data on millions of American voters.

[District Judge] Kollar-Kotelly said the commission and a White House information technology office did not appear to qualify as federal agencies and therefore did not trigger the requirement for a privacy impact assessment.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/07/24/trump-voter-fraud-data-request-privacy-assessment-240892

August 28: President Trump has been sued more than 135 times since taking office.

Many of the lawsuits pertain to his presidency, with cases regarding the Emoluments Clause, the travel bans, his tweet about banning transgender people from serving in the military, and his executive order threatening sanctuary cities.

Others, including the litigation over Trump University and a libel suit brought by a former contestant on The Apprentice, stem from Trump's behavior as a private citizen before taking office.
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a9962852/lawsuits-against-donald-trump/

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October 6: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and other groups vowed to sue the Trump administration over regulations released Friday that would roll back ObamaCare's birth control mandate. 

The rollback “basically gives broad license to employers to discriminate against their employees and withhold a benefit guaranteed by law ...”
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/354266-aclu-promises-lawsuit-against-trump-elimination-of-birth-control-mandate

October 15: A former contestant on "The Apprentice" who accuses President Donald Trump of past sexual misconduct has filed a subpoena for "all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately," it was revealed on Sunday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/president-trump-subpoenaed-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations-n810871

October 17: The terms of the [Trump] trust make it so Trump can technically withdraw cash payments from his businesses any time he wants. He can also dissolve the trust when he leaves office -- so if his businesses do well, he'll ultimately profit.

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CREW claims that because government leaders and entities frequent his hotels, clubs and restaurants, Trump is in breach of the Emoluments Clause. The fear is that international officials will try to curry favor with Trump by patronizing his properties.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/17/news/trump-crew-emoluments-ethics/index.html?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

October 26: Lawsuits against administration keep Trump ‘accountable’
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/26/ferguson-lawsuits-against-administration-keep-trum/

October 26: The Trump Administration on Thursday said it has agreed to pay between $1 million and $10 million to settle lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service for targeting tea-party groups in the Obama era, saying in court documents that the IRS “admits that its treatment...was wrong.”

The Justice Department entered into proposed settlements with groups that alleged in 2013 they had been subject to discriminatory treatment in applying for tax-exempt status. The move largely puts an end to a saga that had engulfed the IRS for years.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-administration-agrees-to-settle-tea-party-lawsuits-against-irs-2017-10-26

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October 31: Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Administration for Rules Denying Women Birth Control Coverage
https://nwlc.org/press-releases/lawsuit-filed-against-trump-administration-for-rules-denying-women-birth-control-coverage/

November 1: A.C.L.U. Sues Trump Administration Over Detention of 10-Year-Old Immigrant
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/aclu-trump-lawsuit-immigrant.html

November 1: “The Department of Labor’s attempts to roll back the overtime and fiduciary rules are yet additional examples of how the Trump administration has sided with well-connected businesses over the working Americans whose interests the president claims to represent,” said AO Executive Director Austin Evers, who most recently served as a senior counsel at the State Department.

“The public has a right to know why the Trump administration believes ...  it’s okay for investment professionals to act in their own financial interests instead of their clients’. Since the administration is staying mum, American Oversight is suing to find out what’s been going on behind closed doors.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2017/11/01/trump-administration-sued-over-delay-of-fiduciary-rule/#36c52e9e7501

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November 6: The [Connecticut] state’s public universities have joined a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over the announced termination of an Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

In an amicus brief, UConn and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system argue ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would harm the schools by forcing students who lose protection from deportation to leave.
http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-uconn-cscu-daca-lawsuit-20171106-story.html

November 9: A gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., is suing the Trump administration for failing to disclose documents revealing the National Rifle Association’s influence on Trump’s views towards gun policies.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-administration-sued-by-gun-control-group-founded-by-gabby-giffords/article/2640270

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November 16: Two groups are suing the Trump administration for allegedly illegally blocking an Obama-era regulation aimed at closing the wage gap.

In their lawsuit, the National Women’s Law Center and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement accuse the administration of canceling the rule without explanation or opportunity for public comment, according to the National Law Journal.

In August, the Trump administration blocked the rule, which required businesses to track worker pay by gender, race and ethnicity, calling it “enormously burdensome.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/360678-trump-administration-sued-over-reversal-of-obama-era-pay-data-rule

November 16: The legal bill for Justice Department lawyers and paralegals who are looking at lawsuits regarding President Trump's businesses is reportedly being paid for by taxpayers.

USA Today reported taxpayers are paying for at least 10 Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers and paralegals who are looking into these lawsuits.

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The amount of money being paid by taxpayers is not known, according to USA Today.

Government lawyers normally get between $133,000 and $185,000 when assigned to cases, according to the publication.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/360632-taxpayers-footing-legal-bill-for-justice-dept-to-work-on-lawsuits

November 17: A federal appeals court announced that it will hear oral arguments on December 11 on whether a groundbreaking climate change lawsuit brought by 21 children and young adults against the Trump administration can proceed to trial.

A trial date of Feb. 5, 2018, in Eugene, Oregon had been set by a lower federal court in the lawsuit, Juliana et al v. United States.

But in July, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco paused the lawsuit after the Trump administration filed a petition asking it to review the lower court's decision to allow the case to go to trial. The Department of Justice contended in its petition that proceeding with the case would launch a discovery process that would be onerous to the federal government.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112017/climate-change-lawsuit-kids-donald-trump-administration-our-childrens-trust

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November 20: The Center for Biological Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration today for allowing U.S. hunters to import elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe. The lawsuit aims to protect animals and resolve confusion created by the administration’s contradictory announcements in recent days.

The suit comes days after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service abruptly reversed an Obama-era ban on elephant trophy imports based on catastrophic elephant population declines. Fish and Wildlife also recently greenlighted lion trophy imports from Zimbabwe, despite the controversial killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/elephant-11-20-2017.php

November 26: The ACLU has taken over 100 legal actions against the Trump administration so far
http://www.businessinsider.com/aclu-lawsuits-vs-trump-administration-2017-10

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November 26:  President Trump’s administration has been hit with a lawsuit over its decision to appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the agency’s outgoing director having already picked his own successor. “The president’s attempt to install a White House official at the head of independent agency—while allowing that officer to simultaneously serve in the White House—is unprecedented,” Deepak Gupta, a lawyer representing Leandra English, said in a statement Sunday. English, the agency’s deputy director, has vowed to “stand up for the CFPB” after Trump appeared to override a decision by the agency’s former director, Richard Cordray, to name her as the acting leader.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-sued-over-cfpb-appointment

November 28: President Donald Trump hired hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants to demolish a New York City building in 1980 and paid them as little as $4 an hour without providing proper safety equipment to do the job, court documents show.

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The workers and their contractor, William Kaszycki of Kaszycki & Sons, sued Trump for unfair labor practices in 1983. After litigation dragged on for 15 years, Trump ultimately paid $1.375 million to settle the case.

“We worked in horrid, terrible conditions,” Wojciech Kozak, one of the undocumented Polish workers at the demolition site, told the Times. “We were frightened illegal immigrants and did not know enough about our rights.”
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-undocumented-immigrants-tower-demolish-724845

December 5: Lawsuit Could Put Trump's Sexual Misconduct Accusers Back In Spotlight

A state judge in New York is weighing whether to dismiss a defamation lawsuit that could bring allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump back into the spotlight amid a national reckoning over sexual harassment.

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The case was brought by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump's TV show The Apprentice. According to a complaint filed with the New York State Supreme Court, she alleges that in 2007, Trump kissed her on the mouth repeatedly, touched her breast and pressed his genitals against her — all without her consent.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/568618889/lawsuit-could-put-trumps-sexual-misconduct-accusers-back-in-spotlight

December 7: After President Donald Trump issued proclamations taking an axe to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, conservation organizations, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit attacking the order on Grand Staircase-Escalante on Dec. 4 as an abuse of the president’s power. On Dec. 7, nine conservation organizations, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit attacking the Bears Ears order, charging that the president violated the 1906 Antiquities Act and the U.S. Constitution by eviscerating the monument.
https://earthjustice.org/features/national-monuments?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI44P6vN7V2AIVk6DsCh3qMAhBEAMYAiAAEgKMYPD_BwE

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December 9: Trump administration facing lawsuit for allowing fracking companies to dump waste in Gulf of Mexico ... It comes just months after the Environmental Protection Agency finalised a Clean Water Act allowing oil companies to offload unlimited amounts of waste into ocean basin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-administration-epa-sued-fracking-companies-dump-waste-gulf-mexico-centre-for-biological-a8101096.html

December 11:
A novel and potentially precedent-setting lawsuit in which 21 young people are suing the Trump administration for failing to address climate change advanced one step closer to a trial on Monday.

The plaintiffs in the case are a group of budding scientists and climate activists — kids and teenagers from around the country whose ages range from 10 to 21. While critics dismiss the suit as a publicity stunt, backers say many of the young plaintiffs have experienced the brunt of climate change firsthand, from a 13-year-old whose family lost their house in Louisiana flooding to a 16-year-old who worries that her home, the Marshall Islands, will be covered by rising oceans.  

The group of climate change nonprofits that’s funding the federal case has also filed similar lawsuits in all 50 states.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/11/kids-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-over-climate-change-goes-to-san-francisco-court/

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December 20: Strategies Emerge In 24 State Lawsuits Against Trump Administration
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/12/20/strategies-emerge-in-24-state-lawsuits-against-trump-admin/

December 21: A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a pair of lawsuits claiming that President Donald Trump’s failure to divest himself of his real estate empire and other business holdings violated the Constitution’s provision banning receipt of foreign “emoluments” while in public office.

U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels ruled that the two suits were fatally flawed because the plaintiffs failed to show injury directly related to the use of Trump’s properties by foreign officials and governments.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/judge-dismisses-suits-emoluments-312610

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Undated 2018:
Forty-six Center Suits Filed Against Trump Since His Administration's Inception

The Center for Biological Diversity is resisting Trump in every way possible — especially in the courts.

From the moment he took office, our lawyers have been working feverishly to oppose every attempt he's made to worsen climate change, kill wildlife, endanger public health and destroy public lands.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/trump_lawsuits/

January 4: 10 times Donald Trump has raised the possibility of lawsuits on Twitter ... A lawyer for President Donald Trump says a lawsuit is coming against former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon after some brutally critical comments he made in a new book.

Whether the President's lawyer follows through or not, just the threat of a lawsuit is a tried-and-true approach Trump has resorted to time and again -- even before he began campaigning.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/politics/trump-twitter-lawsuit-threats-list-trnd/index.html

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March 5: Judge removes Trump family hotel business from Trump Panama City Hotel

Escorted by police officers and a Panamanian judicial official, the owners of the Trump Panama City hotel have taken control of the property. A team of Trump Organization security officials abandoned the area on Monday.

The action by Panama's government resolves a 12-day standoff between President Donald Trump's family hotel business and Orestes Fintiklis, a private equity investor who boutgh a majority of the units in the Panama property and then sought to drop the Trump Organization's management company and brand. Though Fintiklis and other owners tried to fire Mr. Trump's company last year, the Trump Organization had refused to surrender physical possession of the hotel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-removes-trump-family-hotel-business-from-trump-panama-city-hotel/


March 6: After 12-day standoff, workers strip Trump name from Panama hotel with crowbar

A bitter feud between the Trump Organization and the owners of a Panama City hotel that carries the president's name ended this week after a 12-day standoff for control of the 70-story luxury, waterfront high-rise.

The short version is that the Trump Organization appears to have, for now, lost the fight.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/03/06/trumps-name-removed-panama-hotel/398259002/

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March 5:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen reportedly complained he was never reimbursed for his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels

Clifford [Stormy Daniels] received the payment on Oct. 27, 2016, which the Journal notes was just 12 days before the election. "It isn't clear when First Republic reported [the transfer] to the government as suspicious," the Journal writes. Last month, Cohen admitted to The New York Times that he had personally funded the payment to Clifford, insisting neither the Trump Organization nor Trump campaign were involved and calling the exchange a "private transaction." He also declined to explain why the payment was made.

the Journal reported that after the election, Cohen "complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment." Cohen additionally told people that he had missed two prior deadlines to pay Clifford because he could not get in contact with Trump at the time, just a few weeks before the election.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/759128/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-reportedly-complained-never-reimbursed-130000-payment-stormy-daniels

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March 6: Stormy Daniels sues to nullify Trump "hush agreement," says he didn't sign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-hush-agreement-california-court/

March 20:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant can sue Trump for defamation

President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos — as a Manhattan Supreme Court judge denied him immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief.

“In Clinton v Jones the United States Supreme Court held that a sitting president is not immune from being sued in federal court for unofficial acts,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in a ruling released Tuesday, citing the sexual harassment suit that led to the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/former-apprentice-contestant-can-sue-trump-for-defamation/

April 20: Democrats file suit alleging Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks conspired to interfere in 2016 campaign
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/politics/democrats-lawsuit-russia/index.html

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June 14: New York attorney general sues Trump and family over charity, claiming 'illegal conduct' for 'more than a decade' ... The AG is seeking $2.8 million in restitution and wants to dissolve the foundation

[
] Underwood said the Donald J. Trump Foundation engaged in "extensive unlawful political coordination with the Trump presidential campaign."

She also alleged "repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump's personal and business interests." She said the foundation violated "basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/new-york-attorney-general-sues-trump-and-family-over-charity.html


June 19:
How odd is the way the Trump Foundation operates when compared to other similar-sized foundations?

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The most serious [New York] state charge is essentially the basket of violations of the duty of care as reflected in the purchase of paintings to decorate Trump resorts, the use of foundation funds to settle lawsuit disputes between the Trump Organization and various third parties, the use of foundation assets to support Donald Trump's political campaign and, finally, the misreporting of the preceding on the foundation's federal Form 990-PF return, which New York law also requires to be filed with the New York attorney general.

... the filing of knowingly false or inaccurate Form 990 federal tax returns has triggered criminal sanctions in at least five or six cases in the last 10 years. The charges in those case included conspiracy to defraud the United States, the making false statements on tax returns and the aiding and abetting of the filing of a false tax return. The penalties can include substantial fines and jail time.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/trump-foundation-q-and-a/index.html

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July 25: Judge allows case alleging illegal foreign gifts to proceed against President

A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss portions of a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump, through his Trump International Hotel in DC and the Trump Organization, violated a constitutional clause banning gifts or advantages from foreign and domestic governments.

In his opinion, Judge Peter Messitte of the US District Court of Maryland largely sided with Maryland and Washington, DC's definition of emolument as an "advantage." Trump was arguing for a more restrictive definition of the term as a "gift."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/emoluments-case-donald-trump-washington-dc/index.html

August 31: Trump Foundation asks for dismissal of NY attorney general's lawsuit
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/trump-foundation-new-york-attorney-general-lawsuit/index.html


September 21: The People vs. Donald Trump: Every Major Lawsuit and Investigation the President Faces
http://fortune.com/2018/09/21/donald-trump-lawsuit-investigation-charges-news-update/

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September 25: Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump" signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke, raising the question of who's been paying for his recent trips to rallies from Arizona to Tampa.

Now a federal judge has banned one of Trump's most visible black supporters from bankruptcy court for five years and accused him of repeatedly abusing the system.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/blacks-for-trump-founder-maurice-symonette-banned-from-bankruptcy-court-for-abusing-system-10764071


October 4: The New York Attorney General's Office is urging a state court not to dismiss its lawsuit against President Trump's charitable foundation, saying the foundation has repeatedly violated state and federal laws.

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Attorney General Barbara Underwood said the Donald J. Trump Foundation "was a shell corporation that functioned as a checkbook from which the business entity known as the Trump Organization made payments."
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654587755/new-york-ag-presses-forward-with-suit-against-trumps-charitable-foundation


November 16: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., delivered a blow to President Trump Friday, ruling in favor of CNN and the news media.

Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to restore correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials, something the White House said later it would do.

This is not the end of the road in this fight, however. The judge also said the White House needs to establish standardized rules if it wants to try and justify taking away a pass from a reporter covering the White House. He said he wants to hear from both sides again Tuesday to determine the way forward.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668359711/judge-rules-in-favor-of-cnn-temporarily-restores-correspondents-credential?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181116&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

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December 3: A federal judge on Monday said lawyers for Maryland and Washington, D.C., can begin issuing subpoenas in a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of using his luxury hotel in Washington to unconstitutionally profit from his political office.

The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington say they plan to serve as many as 20 companies and government agencies with subpoenas by midday Tuesday. It’s the first time a lawsuit alleging a president violated the Constitution's emoluments, or anti-corruption, clauses has advanced to the discovery stage.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/subpoenas-trump-hotel-emoluments-1041324


December 10: Judge rules Trump administration justified in ending Obama-era immigration program

The Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family members in the U.S., a federal judge ruled Monday.

Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler threw out the bulk of a lawsuit that argued the termination of the Obama-era Central American Minors program was arbitrary and violated the U.S. Constitution.

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The program allowed parents legally in the U.S. to apply to bring children or other family members living in Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador to the U.S.

One of the goals was to discourage children from making the dangerous journey from those countries to the U.S. to be with family.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/judge-laurel-beeler-rules-trump-administration-jus/

December 10: Linda Evarts, an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project who is representing plaintiffs, said she welcomed that part of the ruling and called the decision “an important first step.”

Beeler in a separate order suggested the plaintiffs might be able to revise their lawsuit to address some of her concerns.

The judge, however, found the administration had sufficient policy and legal arguments for its decision to end the Central American Minors program.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/national/us-judge-tosses-bulk-of-suit-against-trump-immigration-move/2018/12/10/5b6215c4-fcdb-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html?nid=menu_nav_accessibilityforscreenreader&outputType=accessibility&utm_term=.c1a915d826f7

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December 11: Trump awarded nearly $300,000 in legal fees in Daniels defamation lawsuit

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels must pay more than $290,000 to reimburse President Donald Trump for legal fees he spent defending himself in a defamation lawsuit she brought against him over a tweet, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-lawsuit/trump-awarded-nearly-300000-in-legal-fees-in-daniels-defamation-lawsuit-idUSKBN1OB029

December 18: Trump Foundation To Dissolve Amid New York AG's Investigation

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has announced that the Trump Foundation will dissolve. The foundation was established by Donald Trump well before he ran for president.

The news comes as her office continues its investigation into various questions about the foundation's conduct, including whether the foundation broke the law by coordinating with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and whether it was truly functioning as a charitable organization.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677778958/trump-foundation-to-dissolve-amid-new-york-ags-investigation


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December 13: Elliott Broidy, Former Top Trump Fundraiser, Hit With Another Setback in Qatar Lawsuit

Elliott Broidy's case against veteran UN diplomat tossed

Broidy claims he was targeted by Qatar and its agents over his efforts to shift U.S. policy against Gulf nation

A former top fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Friday in his efforts to pin the blame on Qatar for a hack of his emails, as a judge tossed his lawsuit against a veteran United Nations diplomat.

Elliott Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his inaugural committee, sued Jamal Benomar in July, claiming he orchestrated the dissemination of hacked emails to media outlets.

Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco and a former U.N. special envoy for Yemen, had denied involvement and sought to get the lawsuit thrown out by asserting diplomatic immunity, a status confirmed by the Trump administration last month.

Siding with Benomar, Manhattan federal District Judge Cathy Seibel on Friday dismissed the case, court records show.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/elliott-broidy-former-top-trump-fundraiser-hit-with-another-setback-in-qatar-lawsu-1.6767499

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