Donald Trump Jr.
Don Trump will raise money at Mar-a-Lago hosted by Donald Trump Jr. Company. Appeal to Rejection of Controversial Pebble Mine Singer Taylor Dayne Responds to Criticism Following Mar-a-Lago’s Performance: ‘I Try to Stay Non-Political’ MORE was ousted earlier this month as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged misuse of Trump inauguration funds, court documents filed Tuesday show.
The February 11 deposit with investigators from the Attorney General’s Office in Washington, DC, is part of several investigations into whether the opening committee wrongly donated money from the $ 107 million record he received.
It specifically looked at a block of rooms in the Madison Hotel, then owned by Loews Hotels, for which the Trump organization signed a contract to use during President Trump
Donald Trump Romney: ‘Pretty sure’ Trump would win 2024 GOP nomination if he meets President Pence with senior members of Republican Study Committee Trump says ‘no doubt’ Tiger Woods will be back after crash MOREinauguration in 2017. According to court documents, $ 49,358.92 was paid for the rooms by the Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC).
In the court documents, Lindsay Santoro, who was Trump Jr. at the time. ‘s executive assistant was, as the “point of contact” for the contract regarding the block rooms indicated. The person who signs and approves the contract is Gentry Beach, who is described as a good friend of Trump.
According to the documents, Trump Jr. ‘s precipitation ‘raises further questions about the nature of the Loews Madison bill and reveals evidence that defendants have not yet delivered to the district.’
Trump Jr. testified that he did not authorize Santoro or Beach to enter into the contract ‘on behalf of the Trump Organization’. ‘
Beach allegedly claimed that the rooms were reserved for people who were ‘big donors to the PIC’.
People associated with the Madison hotel rooms and invoices included individuals who Trump Jr. described as a university friend and another as a ‘Trump family driver’. Trump testified that one of the people associated with the rooms was a “New York socialite” who appeared in the reality show “Real Housewives of New York.”
The court documents reveal new information regarding the former PIC chairman Rick Gates
Rick GatesTrump’s pardon harshly criticized by legal experts shows a preview: Nation prepares for vaccination after Ffizer approval of Pfizer vaccine, Ivanka Trump, deposition in lawsuit over abuse of inauguration funds MORE also. Gates allegedly had no knowledge of the Madison hotel rooms before receiving an invoice from a collection agency.
“Mr Gates said the occupants were individuals attached to the PIC, but he could not remember the names and neither could PIC employees,” the court documents read.
Shortly after the retrenchment of Trump Jr. prosecutors said they were able to obtain documents from the collection agency that contacted Gates.
“These documents directly contradict Mr. Gates’ testimony and reveal that the invoice was not for PIC donors at all, but the payment was to cover rooms in the reserved block that were not used.”
Emails between the collection agency, Gates and the Trump organization reveal an apparent sense of confusion about who would pay for the Madison hotel rooms.
One email said: “Rick Gates will pay, but the name needs to be changed. They plan to pay immediately when they receive the revised invoice. It just can not say ‘The Trump organization’. ”
The Hill quoted a spokesman for Trump Jr. as saying. issued for comment.
Trump Jr. is not the only one of former president Trump’s adult children who was fired in the inauguration fund investigation. Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump Former Trump officials bid for political office The Hill’s Morning Report – Disaster Politics limp Cruz, Cuomo Ivanka Trump will not challenge Rubio for Senate seat in 2022 MORE was ousted after the election last year, during which prosecutors looked at e-mails sent to her from Gates, in which he expressed concern about the “optics” of the PIC paying the Trump hotel a high fee.