Congressional investigators are looking for gifts from foreign governments.
The gifts include diamond earrings, golf clubs, and a soccer ball from Putin.
The National Archives has been asked if the gifts were transferred there.
According to The Washington Post, congressional investigators are looking for gifts given to the former president and his family by foreign governments.
The National Archives has been asked by the House Oversight Committee to check to see if the gifts were transferred from the White House to them.
A person familiar with the request said the gifts included diamond earrings, golf clubs, a large painting of Trump, and a gold- plated collar of the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
The items are worth tens of thousands of dollars, according to sources.
The paper said it was not clear why the committee wanted to locate those specific items and how long it would take to find them.
A person from the committee refused to speak to The Post except to say that the investigation is still going on.
The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act prohibits government officials from keeping gifts from foreign governments with a value of over $415 unless they personally pay for them.
According to The Post, ethics experts say that it could be justified depending on the situation.
Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel at CREW, said that a criminal action would not be precluded if a person failed to turn over a valuable item.
Gifts worth over $415 must be reported by officials.
According to the New York Times, the State Department was unable to provide an accurate list of gifts from foreign governments in 2020.
There was a history of poor record-keeping by the Trump administration. A Trump adviser told the paper that the committee had asked for records from the team.
There is a separate FBI investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents that culminated in the search of his Mar-a-Lago property.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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