This act shall be known as the Donald J. Trump Presidential Anti-Corruption Act:
Section 1. No person or entity, foreign or domestic, including foreign states, governments, or officials, shall pay, donate, give, or cause to be paid, donated, or given, transferred, or made to benefit, any money or thing of value to any President of the United States, from the date of his or her entry into office, or to any relative thereof, of the first or second degree, or to spouses thereof, or to any descendants of any of them by birth or adoption, or to any entity in which any such person has any interest whatsoever, or official or employee of such entity. And no such person, entity, or official or employee of such, shall knowingly receive such.
Section 2, Criminal Actions. Violations of Section 1 by a natural person shall be punishable by imprisonment for a minimum of one year, up to and including a maximum of 10 years, and must include a fine of at least the amount of, or value of, the thing transferred, up to a maximum of 10 times thereof. Violations by any entity not a natural person, including corporations and foreign governments, shall be punishable by fine in the amount previously stated, and disqualification from doing new business with, or entering into new contracts with, the United States or any State or Territory thereof, or receiving anything of value from any of them, for a period of five years from the date of conviction.
Section 3, Presumptions and Exceptions. All transactions described in Section 1 and all contracts for such shall be presumed to have been corruptly made or done, and a violation of Section 1, unless the Affirmative Defense provided in Section 4 shall have been established by clear and convincing evidence.
Section 4, Affirmative Defense. It shall be an affirmative defense, if proved by clear and convincing evidence, that such an act as described in Section 1 was a fair and reasonable business transaction requiring proof of a bona fide quid pro quo, and was not made with corrupt intent to influence the person or entity receiving it with respect to any official act of the President of the United States or any official or agent of the United States under his or her authority.
Section 5, Civil Actions. The United States may bring an action against the recipient of anything described in Section 1, to recover and disgorge the amount of the violation that would effectively nullify it, and, in addition, as civil punitive damages, and in addition to any criminal fine, of triple that amount. In addition, the United States may bring an action against the recipient of any such amount bestowed during a period of one year before the entry of such President into office, for like recovery and disgorgement, and civil punitive damages.
Section 6, Private Right of Action. Any citizen of the United States shall have a right to bring the same action as described in Section 5 if, after advising the Attorney General of the United States of the violation of Section 1, or payment in the year prior to entry into office, and the United States shall not have brought any action pursuant to Section 5 within six calendar months of such advice.
Section 7, Settlements. No claim or potential claim under Sections 5 or 6 shall be effective or enforceable unless previously approved by a judge of a United States District Court, after full and fair and public hearing brought before the Court by motion, and a determination by the judge that the settlement is reasonable and fair, and not corruptly entered into. And all court records related to such a determination shall be open and forever unsealed and open to public view. And no purported settlements that are not so approved, shall be valid or effective.
Section 8, Venue. The place for all actions under this act, criminal and civil, if based on acts within the United States or a Territory, shall be in the District Court where any such act occurred; and if all such acts occurred outside the United States, in any District Court of the United States.
Section 9, Limitations. All actions, criminal or civil, brought pursuant to this act shall be brought within 10 years of the termination of office of the President in question.
Frank Stachyra, an Oak Park resident, is a retired attorney.