BRK'G: FED PROSECUTORS CRIMINAL investigation of Trump $107MILL inauguration

[Centerleftfl]

Prosecutors. That means they've already decided there ARE crimes. Remember, that was some of the very very FIRST details of 'irregularities', suspicious monies for ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS by many, including Russians throwing money into the pot! AND, as I remember TRUMP WAS MAKING MONEY FROM IT!

I kinda assumed this was subsumed into the rest of Mueller's investigation. Maybe this is one of those investigations turned over to other jurisdictions.

Federal prosecutors criminally investigating Donald Trump’s $107 million inauguration



BOB BRIGHAM
13 DEC 2018 AT 16:42 ET


Donald Trump speaking at his inauguration (Screenshot)


Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are investigating Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Citing “people familiar with the matter,” The Journal reports the criminal probe is misspent funds and “also is examining whether some of the committee’s top donors gave money in exchange for access to the incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions.”

Donations in exchange for favors could violate anti-corruption law.

The committee was registered as a nonprofit and spent a record $107 million dollars.

“In April raids of Mr. Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents obtained a recorded conversation between Mr. Cohen and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser to Melania Trump, who worked on the inaugural events,” The Journal reported. “In the recording, Ms. Wolkoff expressed concern about how the inaugural committee was spending money, according to a person familiar with the Cohen investigation.”

“The inaugural committee has publicly identified vendors accounting for $61 million of the $103 million it spent, and it hasn’t provided details on those expenses, according to tax filings,” The Journal added. “The committee raised more than double what former President Barack Obama’s first inaugural fund reported raising in 2009, the previous record. President Trump’s funds came largely from wealthy donors and corporations who gave $1 million or more—including casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, AT&T Inc. and Boeing Co. , according to Federal Election Commission filings.”

The federal government has a key cooperating witness in the investigation...

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/fed...-inauguration/




For those who have a subscription to Wall Street Journal AND whine because I used the FREE SOURCE, Raw Story....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-i...d=hp_lead_pos1

[Centerleftfl]

OPEN SECRETS

Trump 2017 Inauguration Donors

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• Contractor Inauguration Contributions and Awards ›

Raising nearly twice as much as Barack Obama's 2009 record of $53 million, Donald Trump pulled in inaugural funds from, among others, corporations and wealthy individuals who hadn't given to his campaign or supported the Republican convention in Cleveland but were subsequently eager to clamber aboard.
Of course, Obama in 2009 (though not in 2013) barred corporate, labor, PAC and lobbyist contributions and individual gifts of more than $50,000; Trump set no dollar limit and prohibited contributions only from lobbyists. Another difference? The menu of choices offered to donors, where specific dollar values were attached to different levels of access. Admission to a "leadership luncheon" with members of Trump's cabinet and GOP congressional leaders was on offer for a cool $1 million, for example.

https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/inauguration-donors

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Prosecutors. That means they've already decided there ARE crimes. Remember, that was some of the very very FIRST details of 'irregularities', suspicious monies for ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS by many, including Russians throwing money into the pot! AND, as I remember TRUMP WAS MAKING MONEY FROM IT!

I kinda assumed this was subsumed into the rest of Mueller's investigation. Maybe this is one of those investigations turned over to other jurisdictions.

Federal prosecutors criminally investigating Donald Trump’s $107 million inauguration



BOB BRIGHAM
13 DEC 2018 AT 16:42 ET


Donald Trump speaking at his inauguration (Screenshot)


Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are investigating Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Citing “people familiar with the matter,” The Journal reports the criminal probe is misspent funds and “also is examining whether some of the committee’s top donors gave money in exchange for access to the incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions.”

Donations in exchange for favors could violate anti-corruption law.

The committee was registered as a nonprofit and spent a record $107 million dollars.

“In April raids of Mr. Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents obtained a recorded conversation between Mr. Cohen and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser to Melania Trump, who worked on the inaugural events,” The Journal reported. “In the recording, Ms. Wolkoff expressed concern about how the inaugural committee was spending money, according to a person familiar with the Cohen investigation.”

“The inaugural committee has publicly identified vendors accounting for $61 million of the $103 million it spent, and it hasn’t provided details on those expenses, according to tax filings,” The Journal added. “The committee raised more than double what former President Barack Obama’s first inaugural fund reported raising in 2009, the previous record. President Trump’s funds came largely from wealthy donors and corporations who gave $1 million or more—including casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, AT&T Inc. and Boeing Co. , according to Federal Election Commission filings.”

The federal government has a key cooperating witness in the investigation...


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/fed...-inauguration/

Oh another investigation. Maybe this one will get Trump, amiright? But, as seems to be the going rate, this is just another hill for your credibility to die on.

[floridafan]

Oh another investigation. Maybe this one will get Trump, amiright? But, as seems to be the going rate, this is just another hill for your credibility to die on.

There is just no end to the crime and corruption of this administration. You should be angry and embarrassed.

[Centerleftfl]

Oh another investigation. Maybe this one will get Trump, amiright? But, as seems to be the going rate, this is just another hill for your credibility to die on.

Know what convergence means? You are seeing it in REAL TIME. Deal. There's gonna be a whole lot more coming down the pike. TRUMP IS DIRTY!


Remember how TINY Trump's inauguration was? No matter what Spicer screamed in the microphone.

TRUMP'S TO THE RIGHT (Obama's left)




And of course the WOMEN the day after the inauguration...(That's 2 different DC streets simultaneously. There are side streets that had even more).






TRUMP'S INAUGURATION MONEY IS STILL MISSING ONE YEAR AFTER HIS ADMINISTRATION TOOK CONTROL OF THE WHITE HOUSE

BY LINLEY SANDERS ON 1/18/18 AT 8:15 AM - Newsweek


U.S.DONALD TRUMPINAUGURATION CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING

Almost one year after President Donald Trump took the oath of office, millions of dollars from his leftover inauguration funds have still not been donated to the charities they were promised to.

Trump's inauguration committee raised a record-breaking $107 million as his administration prepared to assume the White House last year, but very little has been disclosed about where the remaining money was allocated. As the one-year anniversary of Trump's inauguration approaches, a government watchdog group is questioning why the funds disappeared, and a congressman is proposing legislation to keep future administrations from obscuring their own inaugural donations.

During Trump's transition period, the organizing committee led by billionaire investor Thomas Barrack doubled the funds raised by any previous U.S. president. The money raised eyebrows among political operatives because there was nothing about the celebration that indicated it would exceed a more traditional price tag, according to Public Citizen, a liberal-leaning consumer rights advocacy group.

For the group's government affairs lobbyist, Craig Holman, this has raised one key question that remains unanswered on the cusp of Trump's inaugural anniversary: Where did the extra money go?

"It really raises a lot of suspicions that these funds were mismanaged and probably no longer even exist," Holman told Newsweek. "I strongly suspect that the funds have just been wasted away. I mean, there was no reason in the world the Trump Inaugural Committee needed to raise $107 million."

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Any Russian collusion yet?

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Like Russians paying Clinton?

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There is just no end to the crime and corruption of this administration. You should be angry and embarrassed.

All of which is fantasized, none of which is proven. History doesn't look kindly on witch hunters.

[floridafan]

All of which is fantasized, none of which is proven. History doesn't look kindly on witch hunters.

He is already in very hot water for campaign finance violations and much much more to follow. I kinda have a feeling that no matter how much is proven by either the Mueller team or the SDNY, you wont believe anything. Instead we will hear, but Obama did this, and Obama did that!

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Obama's $170 Million Inauguration

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inau...ory?id=6665946

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He is already in very hot water for campaign finance violations and much much more to follow. I kinda have a feeling that no matter how much is proven by either the Mueller team or the SDNY, you wont believe anything. Instead we will hear, but Obama did this, and Obama did that!

No he isn't. Even former FEC Commissioner, Brian Smith, who was cited many times by the Supreme court in FEC cases, a leading expert in campaign finance laws, says Cohen pleaded guilty to a non-crime. So I suspect you'll back any overly aggressive abuse of the justice system so long as its used against your political opponents. You know, it wasn't so long ago that the mere expression of such a thought conjured outrage among your fellow media parrots.

[floridafan]

Obama's $170 Million Inauguration

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inau...ory?id=6665946

Every penny of Obamas inauguration is accounted for, but with Donald there seems to be $60 million or so unaccounted for.

[Centerleftfl]

There is just no end to the crime and corruption of this administration. You should be angry and embarrassed.

They aren't in the slightest. All of the greed, slime and TREASON and they don't care. After all he is a Republican and WHITE!

[floridafan]

No he isn't. Even former FEC Commissioner, Brian Smith, who was cited many times by the Supreme court in FEC cases, a leading expert in campaign finance laws, says Cohen pleaded guilty to a non-crime. So I suspect you'll back any overly aggressive abuse of the justice system so long as its used against your political opponents. You know, it wasn't so long ago that the mere expression of such a thought conjured outrage among your fellow media parrots.

Well the judge in the sentencing of Cohen had a far different opinion, the is also audio tape of Trump and Cohen, and then the matter of the owner of the national inquirer. Its not something he will get away with.

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Congratulations, Mr. President. And Thanks for the Cheez-Its

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...id-for-it.html