Trump Foundation Ordered to Halt Fundraising
Updated | As Donald Trump barnstormed across the nation this summer, moving to within a few percentage points of residency in the White House, one man watched in amazement from an office high in downtown New York City. This mild-mannered fellow’s desk and file cabinets are packed with documents Trump would rather Americans not read. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the only law enforcement official in the country to investigate and sue Trump for fraud. And on Monday he announced that he has ordered the Trump Foundation to stop raising funds, saying Trump never registered his charity in the state of New York, as is required by law.
Both men are based in Gotham, where Schneiderman has been playing Batman to Trump’s Joker. Schneiderman has one very potent superpower: the subpoena. They have been battling in conference rooms and courtrooms and on the web for several years now.
In an interview with at his Manhattan office, a block from the New York Stock Exchange, shortly before he ordered the Foundation to cease and desist, Schneiderman discussed Trump’s decades of shady business practices and the challenge he has posed to the legal and regulatory systems. “You can’t stop tricky people from committing fraud,” he says. “Bernie Madoff committed massive fraud for a long
