LePage included in subpoenas targeting Trump Organization over hotel profits
Source: Portland Press Herald
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is among those who will be subpoenaed as part of a lawsuit that accuses Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency.
The subpoenas, announced Tuesday by the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland, aim to shed light on whether foreign and domestic government spending at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel amounts to gifts to the president in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
The case has been challenged numerous times by Trump’s attorney, most recently last month when U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte denied a request to stay the lawsuit.
The flurry of subpoenas came a day after Messitte approved a brisk schedule for discovery in the case, The Associated Press reported.
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