District Of Columbia Sues Inaugural Committee For 'Grossly Overpaying' At Trump Hotel
President Trump's inaugural committee spent more than a million dollars renting event space at the hotel in January 2017, a cost that D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says is far above market rate.
by Merrit Kennedy
Jan 22, 2020
2 minutes
The District of Columbia is suing President Trump's inaugural committee, the Trump Organization and the Trump International Hotel in Washington, accusing them of "grossly overpaying" for event space at the hotel to enrich the president's family during the 2017 inauguration.
The funds to rent the hotel space came from the inaugural committee. As a nonprofit, the committee was not
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