Piggy Bank: Trump embezzalded $12 Million From Campaign To own pockets

[UCmeNdc]

The burst of spending brings to more than $12 million the total Trump has funneled back to his businesses since the start of the campaign. It continues his pattern of choosing to spend donors’ money at his own properties for events and on his own airplane for travel, even though it meant spending considerably more than comparable alternatives.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-businesses-campaign-fec_us_584a32f6e4b04c8e2baf31e6

[BainsBane]

1. I hate to say it but

He's not the first or only one to do this. One candidate paid himself ad placement fees through a company called Old Towne Media.
Shockingly, it appears to be legal.

[PeaceNikki]

3. heh

[PoliticAverse]

2. What you are describing is known as "self-dealing". And although personal use of campaign funds...

is illegal (Jesse Jackson Jr. was convicted of doing that) "self-dealing" really isn't illegal.

Nor is paying your spouse or kids as campaign consultants apparently even illegal.

[hedda_foil]

4. It's disgusting but not embezzlement.

Embezzlement to steal funds from an organization or employer using accounting tricks to cover up the theft. This is just his campaign paying and or overpaying vendors for actual services rendered. The fact that he owns the companies is sleazy but not illegal.

[iluvtennis]

5. It's a conflict of interest and something MSM never called him on during primaries and GE...

..it's going to continue in his administration as he won't be divesting his business as there is no written law for him to do so. It is only an ethical "law" and we all know Don the Con is corrupt and doesn't give a damn about ethics.

[Tanuki]

6. The Secret Service will have to pay Trump Tower big bucks to rent

two entire floors to accommodate King Con's preference to spend his time there and to sequester his current wife and latest known kid there. He will move up from funneling campaign funds from his own stupid donors, to funneling money paid in taxes by all of us, even the majority of Americans who find him grotesquely unqualified for his position.

[Vinca]

7. This is Don the Con's greatest scam.

Someone commenting on HuffPo said Trump has an ATM: American Taxpayer Money.