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While Cohen reads through the prison library and works out with The Situation in the Otisville Correctional Facilitys gym, his former neighbor on Park Avenue Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was having a different sort of summer. Last month, Wolkoff received a subpoena from the Washington, D.C., attorney generals office, requesting documents related to President Trumps inauguration, which Wolkoff had a heavy hand in planning. The $107 million event has been under investigation for months, including by federal prosecutors in New York and New Jersey, for profligate spending and questions about foreign donations. The latest subpoena appears to be probing potential self-dealing by the Trump Organization and members of the presidents family, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
Wolkoff complied with the request, according to these sources, by the July 26 deadline, which asked her to turn over records involving the inaugural event, the presidents family and associates, and expenditures by the inaugural committee that could shine a light on whether the nonprofit group provided private benefits to the Trump Organization. The attorney general appears to be particularly interested in payments being made through the inaugural committee to Trump-owned businesses, and whether there was a fair bidding process for contractors.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/investigating-trump-family
empedocles
(15,751 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)The article says this: "The attorney general appears to be particularly interested in payments being made through the inaugural committee to Trump-owned businesses, and whether there was a fair bidding process for contractors."
Which "attorney general" are we talking about here? Is it Barr? If so, I've got questions about WHY he's so concerned:
*still more things to cover up?
*buddies on IQ45's list of "friends" that need to be protected?
*perhaps some questions about "stuff" happening that would make the "emoluments clause" something that he'd have to look up and try to understand?
Not that I don't have all the faith in the world in our "attorney general" - after all, he IS the legal mind (sic) of our country, right?
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)which is not federal, so it's not Barr, thank goodness.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)thanks for the clarification - it DOES make a difference!
sandensea
(21,664 posts)Dahlink.