DC AG investigating nonprofit run by Trump's pick to head VoAmerica
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!!!! Connected to Steve Bannon!!
A nonprofit organization run by President Trumps nominee to lead a federal media agency with oversight of Voice of America and other news outlets is under investigation by the District of Columbias 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 generals office is investigating whether Packs 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 generals 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.