Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company -- With Ivanka in the Middle
Source: Pro Publica
When it came out this year that President Donald Trumps inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all that money went.
It turns out one beneficiary was Trump himself.
The inauguration paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space at the companys Washington hotel, according to interviews as well as internal emails and receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica.
During the planning, Ivanka Trump, the president-elects eldest daughter and a senior executive with the Trump Organization, was involved in negotiating the price the hotel charged the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee for venue rentals. A top inaugural planner emailed Ivanka and others at the company to express my concern that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces, worrying of what would happen when this is audited.
If the Trump hotel charged more than the going rate for the venues, it could violate tax law. The inaugural committees payments to the Trump Organization and Ivanka Trumps role have not been previously reported or disclosed in public filings.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trumps-inauguration-paid-trumps-company-with-ivanka-in-the-middle
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)needs to be sent to jail and the key needs to be thrown away over the Marianas Trench .
I want them broke and I want them choking on subpoenas...I want them spit on, friendless, ridiculed, mocked every time they come out of their gold plated lair..
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)agingdem
(7,857 posts)how about the day he and his vermin spawn walk out of the White House US Marshalls are waiting with handcuffs...I could live with that
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)brush
(53,851 posts)Be best.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)I'm shocked! Shocked!
Botany
(70,581 posts)Fucking grifters.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-baja-snap-story.html
Trump's failed Baja condo resort left buyers feeling betrayed and angry
When Stephenee Simms heard in 2006 that Donald Trump was building condo towers in Baja, the lure of a posh weekend getaway on the rustic coast just south of Tijuana was hard to resist.
Simms, then an aerospace purchasing agent living in Canoga Park, said she used her life savings to pay a deposit of just over $50,000 for unit No. 602, a one-bedroom overlooking the Pacific.
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In the end, nothing at all was built at Trump Ocean Resort, and Simms lost her money. As did about 250 other buyers, most of them from Southern California.
All told, two years of aggressive marketing yielded $32.5 million in buyer deposits, every bit of it spent by the time Trump and his partners abandoned the project in early 2009 as the global economy was reeling. Most of the buyers sued them for fraud.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Progressive2020
(713 posts)Trump, his Family, and his Cronies are a cornucopia of corruption. They try to cut corners and make money anywhere so much that they just leave a slime trail of corruption and crime wherever they go. This is an endless litany of crime and malfeasance.
I look forward to Trump's eventual indictment (indictments?) after he is out of office. Also, I think that we are starting to see Trump sweat since he is realizing the noose is tightening around his neck with the sentencing of Cohen. I am watching with glee as Trump squirms with distress over this.
We may also see Ivanka, Melania, Don Junior, Eric caught up in crimes and corruption as well. The adult children of Trump have learned corrupt practices from Don Sr. over years of shady business practices.
Running for President was one of the stupidest things Trump has ever done in a long list of stupid things...Trump should have stayed in New York and lived out his life there. I am hoping that he and his collaborators get real prison time at some point...It seems possible...
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)And these swamp dwellers are big into that grifting thing.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)lock them up
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)WE should *revolt* if Pence or anyone cuts a deal with these KKKons and Grifters. Eliz Warren said it best: Money Grubbing Grifters!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)K&R
Botany
(70,581 posts)Hassler
(3,390 posts)mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)But, the fools did not think about how different it would be in public "service".
JDC
(10,133 posts)Grifter is in their blood.