President Trump's inaugural committee is facing a new legal threat after the attorney general for Washington, D.C., issued a subpoena for documents, according to a committee spokesperson and source familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump, at The Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.President Donald Trump's inaugural committee is facing a new legal threat after the attorney general for Washington, D.C., issued a subpoena for documents on Wednesday, according to a committee spokesperson and a source familiar with the matter.
The legal action means three government agencies are known to be scrutinizing the finances of the inaugural committee after it raised and spent a record $107 million. The revelation of the new investigation, which was first reported by The New York Times, comes three weeks after the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York subpoenaed the committee. New Jersey's attorney general is also probing how it spent the massive haul of cash.
An inaugural committee spokesperson released a brief statement acknowledging that it had received the subpoena from the office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.
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