Trump Won Tax Breaks While Donating Tens Of Thousands To Corrupt Official Sounds familiar.
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Trump Won Tax Breaks While Donating Tens Of Thousands To Corrupt Official
Sounds familiar.
Christina Wilkie National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave at least $45,000 to the campaign of Alan Hevesi, a New York state comptroller who later went to prison for his role in a pay-to-play bribery scandal, according to a Huffington Post review of campaign finance records.
Trump’s donations coincided with a $500 million lawsuit he filed against the city of New York in the hopes of reducing his property taxes. As the city comptroller and later the state comptroller, Hevesi, a Democrat, played a role in evaluating and settling legal claims against the city of New York and its officials.
The bulk of Trump’s donations went to Hevesi’s campaign for state comptroller, a race Hevesi won in the fall of 2002. In the fall of 2003, by which point Trump had given Hevesi $35,000, the city settled Trump’s lawsuit, a decision that would have involved both the state comptroller ¯ i.e., Hevesi ¯ and the new city comptroller.
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Trump Won Tax Breaks While Donating Tens Of Thousands To Corrupt Official
Sounds familiar.
Christina Wilkie National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave at least $45,000 to the campaign of Alan Hevesi, a New York state comptroller who later went to prison for his role in a pay-to-play bribery scandal, according to a Huffington Post review of campaign finance records.
Trump’s donations coincided with a $500 million lawsuit he filed against the city of New York in the hopes of reducing his property taxes. As the city comptroller and later the state comptroller, Hevesi, a Democrat, played a role in evaluating and settling legal claims against the city of New York and its officials.
The bulk of Trump’s donations went to Hevesi’s campaign for state comptroller, a race Hevesi won in the fall of 2002. In the fall of 2003, by which point Trump had given Hevesi $35,000, the city settled Trump’s lawsuit, a decision that would have involved both the state comptroller ¯ i.e., Hevesi ¯ and the new city comptroller.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-...
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