Ivanka Trump questioned about the alleged misuse of funds
Ivanka Trump has been ousted by lawyers who say US President Donald Trump's inauguration committee of 2017 abused donor funds, a new court filing reveals.
The document, first reported by CNN on Wednesday, notes that Ivanka Trump, the president's eldest daughter and senior White House adviser, was interviewed by attorneys at the Washington, DC Attorney General's Office.
The office filed a lawsuit for allegedly wasting funds from the nonprofit committee, accusing it of making more than $ 1 million in improper payments to the President's Washington DC hotel during the opening week in 2017.
As part of the lawsuit, the Attorney General's Office is suing the documents of Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Thomas Barrack Jr, a close friend of the president who chaired the inaugural committee, and others. Barrack was also deposed last month.
In a tweet Thursday, Ivanka Trump said she spent more than five hours in the DC "Democratic" Attorney General's office and said the investigation was "politically motivated".
He said he told the hotel in an email that he was using "a fair market rate".
Trump's inaugural committee spent more than $ 1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation's capital as part of a program to "overpay" for party space and enrich the president's family. in the trial, claims DC Attorney General Karl Racine.
Racine accused the committee of abusing non-profit funds and coordinating with hotel management and members of the Trump family to organize the events.
"District law requires nonprofits to use their funds for their declared public purpose, not for the benefit of individuals or corporations," Racine said. "In this case, we are trying to recover non-profit funds that have been improperly channeled 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 ongoing scrutiny.
In a statement, Alan Garten of the Trump Organization said: “Ms. Trump's only involvement was linking the parties and instructing the hotel to charge a "fair market rate", which the hotel did. "
Trump faced a number of financial disputes over the course of his presidency, including leaking his tax records, which revealed large levels of debt and a bank account in China, a frequent target of the president's heated rhetoric.
