Deeeeeeeeposed
Oh INteresting.
DC attorney general, so Trump can’t pardon her ass out of there.
Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and adviser, sat for a deposition Tuesday with investigators from the Washington, DC, attorney general’s office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds, according to a court filing.
In January, the DC attorney general’s office sued the Trump Organization and Presidential Inaugural Committee alleging they abused more than $1 million raised by the nonprofit by “grossly overpaying” for use of event space at the Trump hotel in Washington for the 2017 inauguration.
Depositions of witnesses as part of the lawsuit have been underway over the past several weeks.
Grossly overpaying, eh? Now why would they do that? Oh riiiiiiiiight, because the hotel belongs to the guy who was inaugurated. Nothing filthy about that at all, oh hell no.
The attorney general’s office has also subpoenaed records from Barrack, Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and Rick Gates, the former inaugural committee deputy chairman, the filing said.
Rick Gates knew.
In December 2016, Gates wrote to Ivanka Trump that he was “a bit worried about the optics of PIC [Presidential Inaugural Committee] paying Trump Hotel a high fee and the media making a big story out of it,” according to the lawsuit.
Ah yes the optics, and making a big story out of it. What he meant was he was worried they might get busted for rank corruption.
According to the lawsuit, Gates agreed with the hotel’s managing director and Trump family members to pay $175,000 per day for the committee to reserve space for four days.
The committee’s own event planner — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff — advised against the transaction, telling the committee and the Trump family that the charges were at least twice the market rate, the lawsuit states.
Sir, pardon me sir, this would be you siphoning money from your inaugural committee into your own pocket sir, it wouldn’t look good and it could even be a crime, sir.
Wolkoff “noted unease with the offer during an in-person meeting with President-elect Trump and Ivanka Trump,” said DC Attorney General Karl Racine. She also sent a follow-up email to both Ivanka Trump and Gates to “express [her] concern,” according to the attorney general.
“The Inaugural Committee accepted the contract anyway,” the lawsuit alleges.
Because that’s how greedy and entitled and psychopathic Trump is.
One of the few things I’ll miss when Trump is gone is your impression of his impression of how people talk to him.
Awww shucks.
Who or what is Barrack?
The CNN article says, “Tom Barrack, chairman of the inaugural committee, was deposed on November 17, according to the court filing.”