Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company -- With Ivanka In The Middle

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By Ilya Marrit ProPublica and Justin Elliott ProPUblica
December 14, 2018 2:39 pm

As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law.

When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all that money went.

It turns out one beneficiary was Trump himself.

The inauguration paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space at the company’s Washington hotel, according to interviews as well as internal emails and receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica.

During the planning, Ivanka Trump, the president-elect’s eldest daughter and a senior executive with the Trump Organization, was involved in negotiating the price the hotel charged the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee for venue rentals. A top inaugural planner emailed Ivanka and others at the company to “express my concern” that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces, worrying of what would happen “when this is audited.”

If the Trump hotel charged more than the going rate for the venues, it could violate tax law. The inaugural committee’s payments to the Trump Organization and Ivanka Trump’s role have not been previously reported or disclosed in public filings.

“The fact that the inaugural committee did business with the Trump Organization raises huge ethical questions about the potential for undue enrichment,” said Marcus Owens, the former head of the division of the Internal Revenue Service that oversees nonprofits.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-inauguration-paid-company-ivanka

Embezzlement is still embezzlement ................

LOCK HER UP....................

[dalton99a]

1. $175,000 per day for use of the Presidential Ballroom

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trumps-inauguration-paid-trumps-company-with-ivanka-in-the-middle

[lunatica]

2. This makes me rub my hands together in hopeful glee!

Ivanka has no right to get away with anything either.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. where's all the news about HER EMAILS?

Emails was a very hot topic throughout the campaign leading up to the infamous election, yet there's been a very notable, deafening silence about Ivanka's emails.

It's almost as if things matter only when there is a perceived threat to corporate looting.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. This is a MONEY grubbing CRIME FAMILY....

The Trumps are Enriching themselves at the expense of donors and taxpayers is not right. Illegal depending on what was done.

The stench of the Trump family is getting heavier with each passing day.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. 2 things...

Trump has beeb quoted several times as saying, back in 2012-ish...he "might" run for Pres. becuasse " I could make a LOT of money, very easily".

All those various money schemes of funneling money are not new. He's been doing the same thing for decades, but no one looked at it closely.

He deserves all the karma that is coming.

So does Kushner, who has been stuffing his own pockets all along. why do you think Barbie married him, besides the fact he looks exactly like a human Ken doll.

[louis-t]

4. "Undue enrichment"

Now there's a phrase I can get behind.

[H2O Man]

5. +1