Inauguration Committee Money Illegally Went To Donald And Ivanka Trump

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/08/inauguration-committee-money-illegally-went-to-donald-and-ivanka-trump.html

Posted on Fri, Feb 8th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Inauguration Committee Money Illegally Went To Donald And Ivanka Trump


New evidence shows that Trump was skimming money off of his inaugural committee by having his daughter Ivanka overcharge for hotel rooms.

ProPublica reported:

A spokesman confirmed that the nonprofit 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee paid the Trump International Hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — in spite of internal objections at the time that the rate was far too high. If the committee is deemed by auditors or prosecutors to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing, according to experts.

Tax law prohibits nonprofits from paying inflated prices to entities that are owned by people who also control or influence the nonprofit’s activities.

Ivanka Trump set the rates for hotel

The inaugural committee was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day for space when the average DC hotel room rate is $250. Reporting in December 2018 revealed that it was Ivanka Trump who negotiated the contracts and set the rates with the inaugural committee. Ivanka Trump negotiated with her father’s inaugural committee a rate that was ten to one hundred times more expensive than the average for space at a hotel that she and her father own.

This is a classic example of a conflict of interest that opened the door to criminal graft.

Since Trump didn’t separate himself from his businesses after he won the election, which sent a clear signal that he and his family were looking to make money off of the presidency. There are tens of millions of dollars missing from Trump’s inaugural committee, and it looks like at least some of that money found its way into the pockets of Donald Trump and his kids.


https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-new-evidence-emerges-of-possible-wrongdoing-by-trump-inaugural-committee
New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee

[blue neen]

1. Of course.

Grifters gotta grift. I can't wait until this criminal family has to pay the price for their actions.

[olegramps]

40. They are so crooked they steal for the dupes that donated and deserved to be fleeced.

[NanceGreggs]

2. What a shocker, eh? n/t

[grantcart]

24. Love the Canadian accent Nance.

[NanceGreggs]

34. After 40+ years of living here ...

... I still never say "eh".

But I do say the Brooklyn equivalent - which I'll be damned if I know how to convey in print. It's a cross between "ahh" and "uhh" - see what I mean?

Despite over four decades living in Toronto, I still can't "pass" for Canadian. The minute I open my mouth, I'm instantly pegged as a New Yawker. (I've long suspected that asking for a "cup a cawfee" is the deadliest giveaway.)

[Wounded Bear]

3. Follow the money...

always follow the money.

[vlyons]

4. Bingo!

Daddy will not be pleased if Princess Ivanka gets a call from the SDNY.

[Blue Owl]

5. Hear that Donnie? I-L-L-E-G-A-L...

That's why you're under investigation. No witch hunt. Just good ol' fashioned law-breaking.

[shanny]

10. not just lil' donnie

princess complicity is in dutch as well. Sad.

[tanyev]

6. Hell, I want to know how much the Secret Service gets billed for every watery soda

their agents drink at a Trump resort. I’m willing to bet that every single transaction billed to the taxpayers by the Trump organization is massively inflated.

[pandr32]

36. A report to us all should be written and released

Taxpayers are getting fleeced by the Trump crime family.

[brush]

7. $175,000 a day. They are that stupid to think this would not get out.

Perp walk both trump and the czarina.

[malaise]

14. You know what really troubles me

The fact that the criminality continues

[Botany]

26. So is $175,000 per day a little high?

[brush]

28. Way too high. Who can afford that but trump campaign grifters...

paying it to trump's hotel?

[Beartracks]

32. What's their excuse? "It's not laundering if it's done in the open!" ?

: eyes:

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[brush]

33. The czarina apparently didn't expect it to get out...

since repugs were in charge of the whole government.

No one ever accused them of thinking ahead, like maybe they wouldn't always be in charge of all branches of government and questions and actual accounting records could one day be sought.

[democratisphere]

8. Pushing a vacuum cleaner may be in Ivanka's future.

[Scurrilous]

12. Or possibly pushing this...

I had one like this years ago. The guy at the store said it was the kind used at prisons. Great selling point!

[Grammy23]

21. Way, way back in the day,

My grandfather had a small shop in his shed in Memphis, Tenn. He fixed small electrical devices like radios. But he also sharpened blades for mowers exactly like this. They make a pleasant whirring sound when you cut the grass. And the only fumes are from the sweat from the user.

[Scurrilous]

23. It was hard work pushing that thing.

[SWBTATTReg]

35. I still have mine, and even though I don't use very often, I still do get it out and use it, just...

for the heck of it. It does make a pleasant sound, with the wheels and blades turning. But it is hard to push, and you got to make sure that the blades are sharp, otherwise, it will feel like you are just pushing a lump across the yard. I should sell it I guess, but I hang onto it for the occasional exercise!

[Stuart G]

9. k and r

[world wide wally]

11. And don't forget how Trump made his Secret Service Detail rent golf carts to follow him around the

golf course while he played.

[Scarsdale]

13. The gop is responsible for this mess.

tRump was allowed to keep his businesses operating, to conceal his taxes, to break all the rules other presidents have been subjected to. The gop protected this criminal, so they could get tax breaks for their rich donors, and themselves. When tRump goes down, there should be many, many gop slimebags going, too.

[watoos]

15. I keep saying

She is the dirtiest of the kids

[PeeJ52]

16. So what, this is just another process crime????

or another of those rich people crimes where, oops.. we got caught, we'll pay the fine and hope we don't get caught next time crimes? The rich have it so rough...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

17. The SDNY is on this......

Federal charges will be ensuing. Does Trump think when he raises money be it for his campaign or Inaugural Committe, is his personal slush fund?

This is why the Foundation had to close down. What a CORRUPT family for sure.

[BigmanPigman]

27. Can he get out of this with a pardon from Pence?

[Jim__]

18. What a sleaze bag!

Of course, we already knew that.

[Takket]

19. hope this is how she ends up in prison..........

i want NONE of the family to escape prison.

[Grammy23]

22. Martha Stewart wound up in the clink for far less.

I can’t wait to see Ivanka in inmate orange. Wonder what she will look like after a few months of no Botox, no teeth whiteners, no hairdresser? Eeekkkk......

[magicarpet]

20. If you can't plunder and pillage what good is there being pResident.

The most powerful man on the planet should be able to do what ever the fuck he wants !

[NastyRiffraff]

25. Anyone surprised?

The entire candidacy, inauguration, and presidency is a gigantic scam.

[SergeStorms]

29. They started grifting right from the start...

and they'll be grifting until the last minute before they're removed from office. Trump has been a criminal and lying piece of shit from the moment he was born, and he wasn't about to change just because he was handed the highest office in the land. I hate these assholes with a passion that's immeasurable.

[Beartracks]

30. Cool. So, when do they actually get in trouble for any of this?

Still waiting...



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[Apollyonus]

31. Money leaves trails ...

Money that size cannot just disappear unless someone carries suitcases full of cash and buries them somewhere. Eben then, the cash will have a withdrawal point and chain of custody.

[jpak]

37. and probably the Tip of the Iceberg for criminal activity surrounding the Inauguraton

yup

[Pepsidog]

38. "He's stealing my F'ing money" Trump screamed to Bannon when he heard Christie raised a couple

of million for the transition. Trump thinks it’s all his own money. He is sure in for a surprise. Trump was “apoplectic “ about Christie raising money. According to Micheal Lewis’s book. No billionaire will moan and cry over a few million. He needs to be exposed. His greatest fear is discovery that he is not as wealthy as he says.

[Eyeball_Kid]

39. This is a good start. Documentation is sorely needed, but it WILL be exposed as graft. n/t