The District of Columbia's attorney general has accused the inaugural committee and the Trump hotel of using non-profit funds to enrich the Trump family.
The committee and the Trump Organization admitted no wrongdoing. The former president has had legal problems.
There is a civil investigation in New York and a criminal investigation in Georgia that are related to the 2020 presidential election.
No one is above the law, not even a president, according to a statement from the D.C. Attorney General. It claimed that the Trump International Hotel in Washington received more than $1 million in improper payments.
Donald Trump used his own inauguration to enrich his family after he was elected. We refused to let that happen.
The District of Columbia sued the Trump Inaugural Committee, which is a non-profit corporation, accusing it of coordinating with members of the Trump family to overpay for event space.
The office said that the Inaugural Committee never considered less expensive alternatives and even paid for space on days when it did not hold events.
The Committee used non-profit funds to throw a private party for the Trump family.
The deputy chairman of the inaugural committee, Rick Gates, and Donald Trump Jr., were questioned under oath by lawyers for Racine as part of the lawsuit.
In December of 2016 Gates told Trump that he was worried about the presidential inaugural committee being asked to pay a lot of money.
Gates told her in an email that the cost was high compared to other property buys.
The settlement money from the Trump entities will be split between two nonprofits.
The groups promote civic engagement, democracy, and youth leadership in the District.
Thomas Barrack, a billionaire friend of Donald Trump who chaired the former president’s inaugural fund, exits following his arraignment hearing at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 26, 2021.The impending sale of The Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., and with absolutely no admission of liability or guilt, we have reached a settlement to end all litigation with the Attorney General.
As crime rates are soaring in our nation's capital, it is necessary that the Attorney General focus on those issues rather than a further leg of the greatest Witch-Hunt in political history. This was an example of how Law Enforcement could be used against the Republican Party. It's so bad for our country.
The twice-impeached Trump has blasted other investigations of himself and the Trump Organization as witch hunts.
The inaugural fund was chaired by Thomas Barrack, a friend of Trump. Barrack was arrested in July of last year on federal charges of illegally lobbying Trump when he was president of the U.A.
Barrack is awaiting trial and has pleaded not guilty.
Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and lying to federal investigators in a separate federal prosecution unrelated to the inaugural committee.
He was sentenced to 45 days in jail after he testified against Trump's 2016 presidential campaign chief Paul Manafort.
Trump pardoned the man who had been convicted.
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