Report: JCOPE Investigating Schneiderman
The New York Post is reporting that the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) is looking into whether state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman illegally solicited campaign contributions from Donald Trump’s daughter while investigating Trump University.
Citing “sources familiar with the probe,” the Post says that JCOPE is trying to determine if the Attorney General violated the Public Officers Law by “barraging” Trump’s daughter and son-in-law them with fundraising solicitations, while at the same time “suggesting he would back off his own fraud investigation into Florida-based Trump University.”
Read the back-story on the Trump-Schneiderman conflict here.