Donald Trump Junior was deposed in inauguration funds probe

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Donald Trump Jr. was deposed early this month as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged misuse of Trump inauguration funds, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.

The Feb. 11 deposition with investigators from the Washington, D.C., attorney general's office is part of multiple probes into whether the inaugural committee misspent donated funds from the record $107 million it received.

It specifically looked into a block of rooms at the Madison Hotel, which was owned by Loews Hotels at the time, for which the Trump Organization signed a contract to use during former President Trump's 2017 inauguration. According to the court documents, $49,358.92 was paid for the rooms by the Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC).

Court documents point to Lindsay Santoro, who was then Trump Jr.'s executive assistant, as the "point of contact" for the contract regarding the block of rooms. The person who signed and authorized the contract was Gentry Beach, who is described as a close friend of Trump.

According to the documents, Trump Jr.'s deposition "raised further questions about the nature of the Loews Madison invoice and revealed evidence that Defendants had not yet produced to the District."

Trump Jr. testified that he had not authorized Santoro or Beach to "enter into the contract on behalf of the Trump Organization."

Beach allegedly claimed that the rooms were being reserved for people who had been "major donors to the PIC."

thehill.com

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