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Grasswire2

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Thu May 14, 2020, 08:01 PM May 2020

DC AG investigating nonprofit run by Trump's pick to head VoAmerica



[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nonprofit-run-by-trump-nominee-to-head-us-media-agency-is-under-investigation-senator-says/2020/05/14/2afa07ca-962c-11ea-8107-acde2f7a8d6e_story.html|

!!!! Connected to Steve Bannon!!


A nonprofit organization run by President Trump’s nominee to lead a federal media agency with oversight of Voice of America and other news outlets is under investigation by the District of Columbia’s attorney general, a senior U.S. senator said Thursday.

Michael Pack is a conservative filmmaker with ties to Stephen K. Bannon whom Trump has picked to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The D.C. attorney general’s office is investigating whether Pack’s use of funds from his nonprofit, Public Media Lab, was “unlawful and whether he improperly used those funds to benefit himself,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement Thursday.

Menendez said the D.C. attorney general’s office informed the committee of the active investigation earlier Thursday, the same day Pack was scheduled to face a key panel vote on his nomination, before that vote was postponed. Pack has been under scrutiny for tax issues since at least September, when CNBC reported that at least $1.6 million in donations from his nonprofit were sent to his independent production company, Manifold Productions.
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DC AG investigating nonprofit run by Trump's pick to head VoAmerica (Original Post) Grasswire2 May 2020 OP
Because of course. *sigh* nt crickets May 2020 #1
'Agency for Global Media': Trump Propaganda Ministry - Goebbels all over again. n/t CousinIT May 2020 #2
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