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Ivanka Trump was interviewed by lawyers who alleged that Donald Trump’s inauguration committee in 2017 misused donor funds, a new court file reveals.
The document, first reported by CNN on Wednesday, shows that Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and a senior White House adviser, was interviewed Tuesday by attorneys from the Washington, DC, attorney general’s office.
The office filed a lawsuit alleging waste of the non-profit organization’s funds, accusing the committee of making more than $ 1 million (£ 746,000) in improper payments to the president’s hotel in Washington, DC, during the week of the inauguration. in 2017.
As part of the lawsuit, they have cited records of Ivanka Trump; the first lady, Melania Trump; Thomas Barrack Jr, a close friend of the president who chaired the inaugural committee, and others. Barrack was also interviewed last month.
Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $ 1 million to reserve a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital as part of a plan to “overpay” for party space and enrich itself. the president’s family in the process, said the attorney general for the District of Columbia. Karl Racine alleges.
He has accused the committee of misusing non-profit funds and coordinating with the hotel management and members of the Trump family to organize the events.
“District law requires nonprofits to use their funds for their stated public purpose, not to benefit private individuals or businesses,” Racine said. “In this case, we seek to recover the nonprofit funds that were misfired directly to the Trump family business.”
The committee raised an unprecedented $ 107 million to host events celebrating Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, but its spending has attracted continued scrutiny.
In a statement, Alan Garten of the Trump Organization said that “Ms. Trump’s only involvement was connecting the parties and instructing the hotel to charge a ‘fair market rate,’ which the hotel did.”
