FinCEN Fines Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $10 Million for Significant and Long Standing Anti-Money Laundering Violations - for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors.

Money-laundering allegations could hurt Trump more than Russia-gate. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering…those deals don’t seem to interest Congress.

Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.

How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier. The man behind the infamous dossier that raises the possibility that Donald Trump may be vulnerable to Kremlin blackmail is Russia expert Christopher Steele, formerly of M.I.6. Here’s the story of his investigation.

The Fates Of 5 Men Connected To The Trump-Russia Dossier

Ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele was so troubled by findings on Donald Trump that he worked for free The former British spy who compiled the unverified dossier on Donald Trump got so concerned by what he was learning about the President-elect that he worked without pay for months, according to a report.

These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia. A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.

Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump University fraud cases President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged that he never settles lawsuits despite a long history of doing so, has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end the fraud cases pending against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump University.

'Not Wanted': Black Applicants Rejected for Trump Housing Speak Out "Mr. Trump and his son Donald came into the office. I asked what I should do with this application because she's calling constantly and his response to me was, 'You know I don't rent to the N-word. Put it in a drawer and forget about it,'" Leibowitz, 89, told NBC News

p’s Former Ghostwriter Slams GOP Nominee’s ‘200-Word Vocabulary’ He has the smallest vocabulary of any person who has ever run for any kind of office, much less president

Trump, comparing sex to Vietnam, said in 1998 he should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor In a previously unreported 1998 interview with Howard Stern, Donald Trump compared sex to going to battle in Vietnam and joked he should be getting the Congressional Medal of Honor.

How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream Trump "may be the last hope for a president who would be good for white people," remarked Jared Taylor, who runs a white nationalist website called American Renaissance and once founded a think tank dedicated to "scientifically" proving white superiority.

Stupid and contagious: What if Donald Trump is not “dumbing down” and actually is this dumb?
Is it all an act? More likely, Trump really has the mind of a fourth-grader (apologies to those in fourth grade). Listen to him talk and jugde for yourself. Have your heard him say any big words? Have you heard him anything smart?

The puzzle of Trump's massive losses. His losses are so large that they amount to almost 2 percent of all such deductions claimed that year.

Trump’s unusual conflict: Millions in debts to German bank now facing federal fines Trump sued the bank the bank countersued, saying the lawsuit was “classic Trump” and an attempt “to avoid living up to the deal he reached with Deutsche Bank.”

Donald Trump’s Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths According to POLITICO’s five-day analysis Trump averaged about one falsehood every three minutes and 15 seconds over nearly five hours of remarks. In raw numbers, that’s 87 erroneous statements in five days.

176 Reasons Donald Trump Shouldn't Be President Our society has thrown up these people before: Joseph McCarthy. George Wallace. Father Coughlin. Jefferson Davis. Aaron Burr. The Know-Nothings. The Blacklisters. The America-Firsters. And we have always thrown them out. And now our generation has its own: the most dangerous individual ever nominated by a major party for the highest office in this country.

Why Trump gets away with huge lies and Clinton gets trashed for little fibs Trump is spouting this kind of misleading stuff on a regular basis. According to Politifact, only 4 percent of what Trump says on the campaign trail is true, compared to 23 percent for Clinton. A whopping 35 percent of Trump statements are rated "false," and an 18 percent chunk get the "pants on fire" designation, meaning extremely untrue, while just 11 percent of Clinton's comments are rated "false," and only 2 percent "pants on fire."

Trump proposals would add $5.3 trillion to debt
A new analysis from a nonpartisan group finds that Donald Trump's current proposals would increase the federal debt by $5.3 trillion over the next decade

How Donald J. Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money - the last gift from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been other people’s money — an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for a family foundation.

How Donald J. Trump Built an Empire on $885 Million in Tax Breaks - Including tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes

Why He Didn't Run for President in 2012 - With lawsuits pending and shady partners, Trump’s business empire could not withstand the scrutiny of a presidential campaign

Donald J. Trump's unfulfilled promises

Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?

How Did an Alleged Russian Mobster End Up on Trump's Red Carpet? A guy indicted for being part of a global gambling ring run out of Trump Tower.

Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign
The Russian-born businessman says he visited Trump Tower last month for 'confidential' reasons.

This Is What Trump Manages to Get Away With While Everyone Obsesses Over Clinton's Pneumonia

New Trump campaign chief faces scrutiny over voter registration, anti-Semitism

Trump Has Pocketed Nearly 8 Million Dollars Of Donor Money While Running For President. As President will he profit off the backs of the American tax payer?

Cuomo willing to authorize criminal investigation of Trump Foundation - "At Governor Cuomo's direction, the state stands ready to provide the Attorney General with the appropriate criminal referral on this matter if and when she asks for it," Alphonso David, counsel to the governor, said in a statement.

How Donald Trump Exploited Charity for Personal Gain - The billionaire used the Donald J. Trump Foundation to mislead the public—and to funnel cash to an elected prosecutor poised to investigate Trump University.

Trump Foundation donations went to charities that held events at Mar-a-Lago Donations made by President Trump’s foundation largely went to charities that hosted galas at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The Post reviewed the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax records dating back to 2008 and found that a vast majority of the $706,000 distributed by the charity went to groups that chose to hold opulent events at the president’s private resort.

Foundation faceoff: The Trump Foundation vs. the Clinton Foundation Trump twice used the charity’s money to settle legal disputes that involved his for-profit businesses, the New York attorney general alleged. He also engaged in other instances of self-dealing, such as paying $10,000 to buy a portrait of Trump that was found hanging in one of his golf resorts. The foundation also donated $25,000 to a Florida political group aiding the reelection effort of state Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) — and was used to benefit his presidential campaign

Trump Foundation funneled $100K in donations into revenue for Trump Organization: report

The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct Explosive allegation — that the Trump campaign agreed to minimize US opposition to Russia's incursions into Ukraine in exchange for the Kremlin releasing negative information about Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton. The timing of events supporting this allegation also lines up.

Dear team Trump,'alternative facts' are lies in the real world

Why Does Donald Trump Continue to Defend Russia and Attack U.S. Intelligence? If collusion doesn’t explain his behavior, what does?

Donald Trump’s team is running a misdirection campaign on Russian hacking. In recent days, they've made claims and suggestions that just don't square with the facts and/or strain credulity.

Trump Received Unsubstantiated Report That Russia Had Damaging Information About Him. America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump

Trump's path to White House lined with false, misleading statements Trump has mixed in doses of innuendo, fear-mongering and outright inaccuracies on the trail

Ivana Trump: Donald Can Be a Major Cry Baby
Trump's first wife says he is so thin skinned, he once stomped off because she was a better skier than he is.

Donald Trump hosted wild parties with sex, cocaine and underage models Donald Trump allegedly used to host cocaine-filled and sex-crazed parties at one of his luxurious Manhattan hotels — and invited models as young as 15 to attend them, a bombshell report published Monday claims.

How Donald Trump Lost His Mojo. Flailing on race and immigration, his campaign in chaos, the candidate who made a brilliant farce of the election is now finding the joke is on him

NYC Official: No Evidence Trump Gave $10K to 9/11 Fund New York City's comptroller has found no evidence that Donald Trump gave $10,000 to a fund for 9/11 victims after the terror attack, and concluded that the GOP nominee "may have lied" about making a donation.

Multiple women say Donald Trump made inappropriate sexual advances on them Three women accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances on them in reports published

Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately The women say they felt compelled to speak after Mr. Trump on Sunday denied ever engaging in such conduct. One says she encountered him on a plane, the other in Trump Tower.

A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe. From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Trump's a storied pageant creep

'Don't vote for Trump,' says USA Today in first presidential endorsement in its history The editorial board unanimously found Trump "unfit for the presidency" and the editorial, published Thursday, goes on to list the reasons why, among them: his "erratic" behavior and his "checkered" business past. "Whatever you do, however, resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump."

Trump’s week reveals bleak view, dubious statements in ‘alternative universe’ An examination by The Washington Post of one week of Trump’s speeches, tweets and interviews show a candidate who not only continues to rely heavily on thinly sourced or entirely unsubstantiated claims but also uses them to paint a strikingly bleak portrait of an impoverished America, overrun by illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists all designed to set up his theme that he is specially suited to “make America great again.”

Harry Reid says Donald Trump is a ‘fraud’ who’s built empire on scams Sen. Harry Reid accused Donald Trump Tuesday of being “a fraud” who’s not worth anywhere near his claims. Reid said the billionaire businessman has abused other people’s money, and in particular misused money given to his charity for his own personal purposes. Mr. Reid said that’s against the law.

Trump Won Tax Breaks While Donating Tens Of Thousands To Corrupt Official Donald J. Trump in another pay to play? Republican presidential nominee Donald J. 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

Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems Trump may have violated laws against “self-dealing” — which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses. Can you say crooked Donald

‘Donald J. Trump Revealed’ - 408 documents, comprising thousands of pages of interview transcripts, court filings, financial reports, immigration records and other material

The Many Scandals of Donald J. Trump: A Cheat Sheet - A series of stories in The Washington Post and elsewhere in recent weeks have shown inconsistencies and possible violations of law at the charity, and watchdog groups and Democrats have begun calling for investigations into it

Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

Trump bragged that his money bought off politicians. Just not this time. Trump is the one who pay's to play

Donald J. Trump’s Donation Is His Latest Brush With Campaign Fund Rules - Trump was compelled to testify under oath before New York State officials after he directed tens of thousands of dollars to the president of the New York City Council through myriad subsidiary companies to evade contribution limits.

Donald Trump’s Destruction Isn’t Funny Anymore

Trump: Stop Regulating Poisoned Dog Food - Regulations protects humans, pets and our natural resources Donald J. Trump and the GOP wants to remove that protection by deregulation putting American lives and our natural resources lives at risk

Trump Bankruptcy Math Doesn't Add Up. - Trump actually has six bankruptcies over the course of 18 years, Trump's companies went into reorganization six times.

Trump's barrage of attacks 'beyond belief,' reeling NATO diplomats say There is no question about it Trump Putin puppet. Trump once again is projecting himself this time on Germany.

Why Trump’s inauguration money is a major part of Mueller’s Russia investigation. There have long been serious questions about the money behind Trump’s inauguration — and where, exactly, it went. Trump’s inaugural committee raised a truly astonishing $106.7 million, double the previous record set by Barack Obama’s 2009 inaugural. But what they did with it isn’t so clear.

All of Donald Trump's Ties to Russia and Putin, in 7 Charts These charts illustrate dozens of those links, including meetings between Russian officials and members of Trump’s campaign and administration.

Trump’s Russian Laundromat How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

Republicans once ran on protecting Americans from Russia. Then Trump happened The Republican Party of yesteryear was known for its abhorrence of the Soviet Union and all things related to communism. Now the U.S. has a president and Republican leadership unwilling to protect us from Russian meddling in our elections.

Manafort bank fraud trial does have Trump campaign connection, Mueller's team says

Donald Trump’s team is running a misdirection campaign on Russian hacking. In recent days, they've made claims and suggestions that just don't square with the facts and/or strain credulity.

Here’s a guide to the Trumpian spin on the Russian hacking report.

Donald Trump’s gripes about the New York Times are usually about stories that are shown to be accurate

Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes Mr. Trump avoided reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income by using a tax avoidance maneuver so legally dubious his own lawyers advised him that the Internal Revenue Service would most likely declare it improper if he were audited.

Trump campaign talks about its "voter suppression" efforts Donald Trump’s campaign has organized a strategy to try to depress voter turnout for Hillary Clinton

Consultant With Ties to Donald Trump Linked to Offer to Hide Source of Donations A video posted on Monday by a British newspaper appeared to show a Republican consultant with ties to Donald J. Trump offering to disguise the source of contributions to a “super PAC” intended to aid Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.

Trump had these choice words in 1993 on his womanising ways: ‘it’s fortunate I don’t have to run for political office’

Trump campaign rocked by wave of new sexual harassment allegations A new wave of stories involving Donald Trump’s alleged sexual transgressions bubbled up

Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored. Mr. Trump’s supporters often chant vitriolic, even violent slogans at his campaign events. New York Times reporters documented examples over several weeks.

Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.

Trump under fire after sending nasty tweets about ‘disgusting’ ex-Miss Universe The fallout has threatened to undermine weeks of carefully choreographed efforts by Trump’s campaign to repair his image after several missteps this summer, most notably his feud with the family of a Muslim American soldier who died in Afghanistan.

Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money Donald Trump’s charitable foundation which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Evidence of Trump’s personal giving. The Washington Post has contacted more than 250 charities with some ties to the GOP nominee in an effort to find proof of the millions he has said he donated to them. We’ve mostly been unsuccessful.

Trump lies Thirty times, they caught him. Trump had misstated sales at his condo buildings. Inflated the price of membership at one of his golf clubs. Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees.

Trump Files: Donald's Big Book of Hitler Speeches Trump owned a copy of Adolf Hitler's speeches and allegedly read them for inspiration

No, Hillary Clinton did not start the 'birther' movement And yes Trump was the leader chief prompter of the birther movement

Bernie Sanders on Trump's Birther Statement: He's Still a Bigot and Racist
" This is part of his entire campaign of bigotry."

Donald Trump wants to cut the FDA - you know, the group that makes sure your food is safe.

Trump admits Obama was born in U.S., but falsely blames Clinton for starting rumors - Ending his long history of stoking unfounded doubts about the nation’s first African-American president

Donald Trump Lies Again About Birtherism
His "big announcement" included a huge whopper.

Almost Every Word of Donald Trump's Birther Statement Is a Lie - Hillary Clinton did not allege that the president was born in Kenya. Trump did not compel Obama to release his birth certificate "when others had not"—Obama had already released a copy of his birth certificate, but critics, including Trump, believed it to be a fake

An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

Trump Just Said He Wouldn't Spy on Americans. Here Are 4 Times He Vowed to Do So.

US election: Why the Melania Trump plagiarism row matters

Trump Did Not Oppose the Iraq In 2011, he said he had thought it was "smart" to go grab Iraq's oil.

Republicans Reeling After Investigation Exposes Trump As A Foreign Bank Owned Fraud

What Donald J. Trump Owns and Owes The Republican presidential nominee has an interest in more than 30 U.S. properties, roughly half of which have debt on them.

Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties

New Trump Campaign CEO Faced Domestic Violence Charge In 1996

Here Are 13 Examples Of Donald Trump Being Racist

Is Trump’s Campaign Breaking the Law by Paying Money to Trump’s Businesses?