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President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, December 7, 2018.
Manhattan-based federal prosecutors are investigating whether some of the $107 million in donations to then-President elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural committee were misspent, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
sentenced to three years in prison on charges that came in part from those April raids on his office and residence.
The criminal probe is also looking into whether some of the committee’s top spenders traded money for access to the incoming Trump administration, as well as “policy concessions or to influence official administration positions,” sources told the Journal.
“Giving money in exchange for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption laws,” The newspaper explained. “Diverting funds from the organization, which was registered as a nonprofit, could also violate federal law.”
The White House had no immediate comment on the report. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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