DC Attorney General Moves Ahead With Trump Inauguration Suit
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DC Attorney General Moves Ahead With Trump Inauguration Suit
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An investigation into alleged self-dealing continues, now that court-ordered mediation between the DC attorney general and the Trump inaugural committee has failed.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jul. 28, 2021 5:17AM ET / Published Jul. 28, 2021 4:07AM ET
The attorney general for the District of Columbia will continue investigating whether Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration committee misspent more than $1 million, after discussions to resolve the matter out of court stalled this month.
The AG’s office has a civil lawsuit against the inaugural committee and the Trump Organization. And this month, the case was forced into mediation, a deal-making session in which a neutral negotiator tries to get different sides to come to an agreement.
While lawyers met on July 14 to discuss resolving the case out of court, the meeting went nowhere.
According to court records, the closed-door meeting resulted in “no agreement reached.” The reason: Investigators are dead set on seeing this case through to the very end, a source with knowledge of the case told The Daily Beast.
That means the case will proceed, as all sides wait to see whether D.C. Superior Court Judge José M. López rules that the local law enforcement agency has already proven its case before trial. The office of the local attorney general, Karl Racine, has a pending motion for summary judgment arguing that the evidence already presented weighs that heavily in his favor.
The local attorney general claims the Trump Organization and Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. were “unjustly enriched” by overbilling the nonprofit inauguration committee. The office wants the judge to force the return of $1.08 million in “misspent charitable funds.” (The AG’s office wants to award that money to another civic-minded nonprofit of its choosing.)
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I can’t remember the numbers but they raised a MASSIVE amount of money and will not account for most of it. Darn right they should see this through!!
Said they were best friends for 16 years. They quit being friends when the Trumps tried to pretend she received the 26 million for her work on the Inaugural.
Friend kept all the info, turned it over to investigators.
Guess she did not really trust the Trumps.
for an inauguration, and the inauguration itself was a Spartan affair. Most of the money was paid to...... TrumpCo., but no one can seem to remember what the money was for.
Funny how that works with any money collected for TrumpCo., isn't it? 
Just like the money collected for "stop the steal", that has never been spent for any litigation concerning that scam. TrumpCo. won't say what they're saving that money for, but I think we can all guess.
Seems like a scam since the State of Arizona stands to be stuck with a $9 million tab for the "cyber ninjas" fraudit.
