Come noon on 20 January 2021, Trump and his inner circle will be private citizens again. Devoid of legal immunity, stripped of the air of invincibility, they become fair game for federal and local law enforcement alike. The potential for prison hovers over them like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
Cyrus Vance, Manhattanâs district attorney, is circling Trump and his business. Eric Trump has testified at a court-ordered deposition conducted by New Yorkâs attorney general. As for federal prosecutors in the southern district of New York, they labeled Trump an unindicted co-conspirator in the case of Michael Cohen. The statute of limitations has not expired.
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One of Eric Trump s top deputies played an important role overseeing the Trump campaign shell company that spent $617 million during the 2020 presidential race, sources told Insider.
In one instance, the Trump campaign paid an extra 2% fee on all ads aired from a firm tied to its chief strategist, Jason Miller, Trump advisors told Insider.
But much of the spending made through American Made Media Consultants remains a mystery, according to Trump advisors and an Insider analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
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Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan is asking the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to investigate the Trump campaign s shell company. If Mr. Kushner s American Made Media Consultants did in fact spend $617 million as reported, he and his associates which include additional Trump family members as well as the Vice President s nephew could face penalties amounting to more than one billion dollars, the Wisconsin congressman wrote in a letter first obtained by Insider.
Pocan joins two other Democratic House members seeking an investigation of the shell company, citing Insider s reporting.
The Trump campaign has said no laws were broken with the use of the shell company.
I write to request an immediate investigation into the allegations published this past Friday by
Business Insider’s
Tom LoBianco and
Dave Levinthal in their story “Jared Kushner Helped Create a Trump Campaign Shell Company that Secretly Paid the President’s Family Members and Spent $617 Million in Reelection Cash.”[1] If true, such acts are clear violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.) and punishable by up to five years imprisonment and more than one billion dollars in fines.
52 U.S.C. 30101(4) states that a “political committee” is “any…group of persons…which makes expenditures aggregating in excess of $1,000 during a calendar year”. 52 U.S.C. 30101(9)(A)(i) states that an “expenditure” is “any purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office”.