Daily News Roundup: Trump Lawyer and His Family Got Millions From His Nonprofit

Trump Lawyer’s Family Got $60 Million From Nonprofits He Led: Tax filings and other documents obtained by The Guardian detail compensation, loans, rent, and contracts paid since 2000 to Jay Sekulow, his family, and businesses they control from the coffers of Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism. The nonprofit is headed by Mr. Sekulow, a member of President Trump’s legal team.

L.A. City Council OKs $1 Billion George Lucas Museum: The unanimous vote clears the way for the movie mogul’s long-planned, self-funded Museum of Narrative Art to be built in the city’s Exposition Park, with groundbreaking scheduled for early 2018, Variety reports. Los Angeles landed the project after proposals to house Mr. Lucas’s collection of popular art and film memorabilia in San Francisco and Chicago fizzled.

Hedge Fund Mogul Gives $50 Million to Museum of Modern Art: Through their foundation, billionaire Steven Cohen and his wife, Alexandra, gave $50 million to the museum’s $400 million capital campaign, The New York Times reports. The Cohens have been major donors to veterans causes and hospitals. The Boston Globe reports another $50 million gift, to Brandeis University, from the Cohn family of Chicago philanthropists.

Charity, Not Government, Funded Senate Majority Leader’s Childhood Polio Care: An internet meme incorrectly suggests that Mitch McConnell, who is leading the Senate push to undo many provisions of Obamacare, received government-supported treatment as a child. The Washington Post reports that funds for his polio care were in fact raised by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a nonprofit supported by millions of Americans who sent letters with dimes and quarters, which evolved into March of Dimes.

Whistle-Blower Suit Alleges Malfeasance at Washington’s Community Foundation: A longtime accountant for the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region has sued her former employer, claiming that she was fired after reporting alleged misuse of donor funds, violations of Internal Revenue Service rules, and forgery, The Washington Post reports. At the center of the lawsuit is CharityWorks, a donor-advised fund managed by the foundation, which supported some of Washington’s most lavish galas but failed to deliver grants promised to local organizations.

Yankees Charity Fails to Follow Through on Community Support: The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund has neglected to support organizations serving those who live in the vicinity of the team’s 10-year-old South Bronx ballpark, The New York Times reports. The fund has funneled money to wealthier parts of the Bronx that were not affected by the stadium’s construction, which began in 2006, and regularly makes grants to organizations with which it shares board members.