D.C. attorney general seeks to interview president's son in inauguration spending suit

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post



By David A. Fahrenthold
Jan. 14, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. EST

The D.C. Attorney General’s office has notified Donald Trump Jr. that it wishes to interview him as part of a lawsuit alleging that President Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee improperly funneled money to the president’s business, an official in the attorney general’s office said Thursday.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine’s lawsuit, filed in January 2020, alleges that the Trump Inaugural Committee — a tax-exempt nonprofit — wasted $1 million of donors’ money on an overpriced, little used ballroom at the president’s D.C. hotel, and then paid a $49,000 hotel bill that should have gone to the Trump Organization.

The official in Racine’s office spoke on the condition of anonymity because the notice asking Trump Jr. to sit for a sworn deposition is not public. The official declined to say what questions investigators wanted to ask Trump Jr.

In a recent court filing, Racine’s office said that Trump Jr.’s assistant and close friend had reserved the hotel rooms at the Loews Madison Hotel that led to the $49,000 bill. After the bill went to a collections agency, the Trump Inaugural Committee paid the charge, Racine’s office said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dc-attorney-general-seeks-to-interview-presidents-eldest-son-in-a-case-alleging-improper-spending-by-2017-inaugural-committee/2021/01/14/3fddb654-55e0-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

[grumpyduck]

1. And if this is a DC issue,

then donnie can't pardon him. Would that be a kick in the pants!

[Moostache]

2. DJTJr may want to just get comfortable in the DC AG's office...

After they finish talking about grifting from the campaign, they probably will need to discuss inciting the crowd to insurrection and more stemming from that happy asshole's conduct on the morning of the 6th and other events preceding the domestic terror attack on the Capitol.

[rickyhall]

3. A house of thieves.

[llmart]

4. What about Iwanka?

Wasn't she in on the swindle also?

[IcyPeas]

5. she was interviewed a few weeks ago.

Ivanka Trump says she was deposed for 5 hours in inaugural spend probe. Here’s what she failed to mention

But in doing so she conspicuously omitted the $3.6 million question posed by a Republican felon that underscored fears the Trump family was profiting from a nonprofit set up to celebrate the White House victory.

Ivanka Trump’s tweet condemning the suit as “politically motivated” included an email that indicates she told managers of her father’s hotel in Washington to charge “fair market rate” for its services during the inauguration after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/03/ivanka-trump-deposed-in-dc-probe-of-trump-inauguration-.html