Lawsuit against Trump over foreign payments expands
Source: Reuters
POLITICS | Tue Apr 18, 2017 | 12:18pm EDT
Lawsuit against Trump over foreign payments expands
By Jonathan Stempel | NEW YORK
A nonprofit watchdog expanded a lawsuit accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by letting his hotels and restaurants accept payments from foreign governments.
The amended complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan adds a restaurant trade group, whose members include nationally known chefs Tom Colicchio and Alice Waters, and a hotel events booker in Washington, D.C. as plaintiffs.
It is intended to address concern over whether the watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was itself harmed by Trump and had standing to sue at all.
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The amended complaint said Trump violates the Constitution's "emoluments" clause, which bars him from accepting various gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval, by maintaining ownership over his business empire despite ceding day-to-day control to his sons, Eric and Donald Jr.
It said members of Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United Inc, which represents more than 200 restaurants and nearly 25,000 workers, have improperly lost business, wages and tips to Trump's competing businesses.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawsuit-idUSKBN17K1WE
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but actively soliciting their "business." Astonishingly bald-faced graft on a world-class scale that only a disordered mind would try to get away with. And this is only one type of corruption they're involved in.
There's no chance this all won't eventually come down on Rump's head. I hope there is some way the family won't walk away with more billions, but of course that's small potatoes next to the need to clean them out and reestablish the honor of our executive branch.
