Ivanka Trump has been deposed by attorneys alleging that President Donald Trump�s 2017 inauguration committee misused donor funds, a new court filing reveals.
The document, first reported by CNN Wednesday, notes that Ivanka Trump, the president�s oldest daughter and a senior White House adviser, was interviewed Tuesday by attorneys from the Washington, D.C., attorney general�s office.
The office has filed a lawsuit alleging waste of the nonprofit�s funds, accusing the committee of making more than $1 million in improper payments to the president�s Washington, D.C., hotel during the week of the inauguration in 2017.
As part of the suit, they have subpoenaed records from Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Thomas Barrack Jr., a close friend of the president who chaired the inaugural committee, and others. Barrack was also deposed last month.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) December 3, 2020
Trump�s inaugural committee spent more than $1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation�s capital as part of a scheme to �grossly overpay� for party space and enrich the president�s own family in the process, the District of Columbia�s attorney general, Karl Racine, alleges.
He has accused the committee of misusing nonprofit funds and coordinating with the hotel�s management and members of the Trump family to arrange the events.
�District law requires nonprofits to use their funds for their stated public purpose, not to benefit private individuals or companies,� Racine has said. �In this case, we are seeking to recover the nonprofit funds that were improperly funneled directly to the Trump family business.�
The committee raised an unprecedented $107 million to host events celebrating Trump�s inauguration in January 2017, but its spending has drawn continued scrutiny.
Alan Garten with the Trump Organization said that �Ms. Trump�s only involvement was connecting the parties and instructing the hotel to charge a �fair market rate,� which the hotel did.�
(AP)
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While Biden’s so-called cancer charity used all of its funds to pay for salaries and “meetings” with not even a penny going to any cancer research or rehabilitation facility. The “charity” was allegedly like a type of “think tank” to come up with “ideas” to help cancer patients.
A search on the web names District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine as the prosecutor. The actual suit started in January of 2020 – rather blatantly to go hand-in-hand with the impeachment. But the
She will get a pardon before daddy leaves office. She has no reason not to commit perjury in a federal matter before the expiration of daddy’s term.