by digby
Oh look, yet another Federal Prosecutor is digging into Trump and his cronies:
The attorney general for the District of Columbia is the latest to jump into an investigation of Trump’s inaugural committee, subpoenaing the committee this week over whether it “improperly provided private benefit,” the New York Times reports.
The subpoena reportedly asks for information regarding the roles that Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump may have had on the inaugural committee. It also seeks information regarding payments to the Trump International Hotel and the Trump Organization, per the New York Times.
The request reportedly comes as part of an investigation into whether money was “wasted, mismanaged and/or improperly provided private benefit, causing the committee to exceed or abuse its authority or act contrary to its nonprofit purpose.”
The New Jersey Attorney General sent a civil subpoena to the committee earlier this month, after federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York sent a wide-ranging subpoena to the inaugural committee on Feb. 4, asking for an array of documents.
The D.C. subpoena reportedly follows on the SDNY request in asking whether any agreements existed whereby donors paid vendors directly for services provided to the inaugural committee.
Trump’s inauguration took in a record-breaking $107 million haul, nearly twice as much as any previous one.
And it was the most pathetic inaugural in history. They certainly didn’t show the money.
The evidence so far shows that they were funneling donor money into the Trump Organization’s coffers and helping foreign and possibly criminal interests to subvert the law to buy access. It also appears they were very disorganized and weren’t very careful in covering their tracks. Imagine that.
Maybe it’s the kids’ time in the barrel. I hope so. They were in on all the corruption and are benefiting from it today.
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