Washington Official Subpoenas Trump Inaugural Committee

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: New York Times

The attorney general for the District of Columbia has subpoenaed documents from President Trump’s inaugural committee, the third governmental body to delve into how the fund raised $107 million and spent it to celebrate Mr. Trump’s swearing in.

The latest subpoena follows similar demands for documents by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and by New Jersey’s attorney general. The attorney general in Washington is a local official who enforces statutes governing the operation of nonprofit organizations like the inaugural committee.

No other recent inaugural committee has generated such intense scrutiny of its finances. Typically short-lived, the committees are charged with staging balls, concerts and black-tie dinners in the nation’s capital during inauguration week.

Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent at least twice as much as its predecessors, but it ended in acrimony amid allegations of misspent funds. Federal prosecutors are examining whether foreigners illegally contributed to events using Americans as straw donors, a possible violation of criminal law. New Jersey authorities appear to be examining whether the committee obeyed civil statutes governing how nonprofit organizations raise funds, among other matters.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/trump-inaugural-committee.html

[denbot]

1. It is why Shitler lied so blatantly about the size of his inauguration celebration

The illusion of size helped to cover the scope of graft from the inauguration committee funds.

[yaesu]

2. Raised a record amount of money (most from one source)& had one of the smallest inaugurals on record

it wreaks of money laundering.

[forklift]

3. It has become

a government of the crooks, by the crooks for the suckers and the stupid.

RESIST

[Duppers]

4. What took them so long?

And whatever happened to the investigation of melania's friend?

[Julian Englis]

6. k & r