While the Hillary Clinton was scrutinized relentlessly during the presidential campaign over allegations that she used her State Department position to leverage donations to the Clinton Foundation, the real smoking gun was in plain view all along. Thanks to the dogged reporting of David Fahrenhtold at The Washington Post, Donald Trump’s own philanthropic nonprofit foundation was revealed to have acted neither philanthropically nor much like a nonprofit. Now, Fahrenthold reports, the Trump Foundation has admitted that it did engage in illegal acts of “self-dealing,” just as critics had long alleged.

According to its 2015 I.R.S. tax filings, which were posted online by the nonprofit Web site GuideStar, the Trump Foundation appears to explain that it used charity money to benefit either Trump, his businesses, or his family. The records indicate that the private foundation transferred “income or assets to a disqualified person” and affirmed that it had engaged in acts of self-dealing over the years. (The Post could not confirm that the same forms were sent to the I.R.S., and Trump’s presidential campaign did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.)

Violations such as these can result in monetary penalties including excise taxes and the forced repayment of money spent by leadership, which in this case would be Donald Trump, the Post notes. It is not clear if the foundation has already been punished for the violations, and a spokesperson for New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, whose office recently ordered the charity to stop soliciting donations, only told the newspaper, “our investigation is ongoing.”

Throughout the presidential campaign, a slew of bad headlines surrounded the Trump Foundation, which was first thrust into the spotlight this summer when it was uncovered that the charity gave Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi a $25,000 political donation, just as the politician was deciding whether to investigate Trump University for alleged fraud. The contribution was a violation of tax laws, for which Trump paid the $2,500 penalty, but the revelation unleashed a wave of scrutiny. A series of subsequent investigations by the Post found that Trump reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars worth of the charity’s money to benefit himself—including allegedly spending $10,000 on a portrait of himself and another $12,000 on a football helmet signed by then Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

At the very least, it seems Donald Trump will not be using any foundation funds for improper purposes going forward. On Friday, representatives for the president-elect reportedly sent Schneiderman’s office a brief letter asserting that Trump Foundation money would not be used to pay the $25 million settlement that Trump reached last week in the class-action federal fraud case against Trump University. That money, unlike the cash used to pay for self-portraits or football helmets, will have to come out of Trump’s own pocket.