{"id":177010,"date":"2020-01-22T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/22\/of-course-they-did-4\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:43:00","slug":"of-course-they-did-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/22\/of-course-they-did-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course They Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington, DC Attorney General has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/dc-attorney-general-sues-trump-inaugural-committee-over-1-million-booking-at-presidents-hotel\/2020\/01\/22\/aa4ffab6-3c90-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html\">sued the Trump inaugural committee for self-dealing when it overpaid for events at Trump properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps the least surprising big of corruption revealed today: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued President Trump\u2019s inaugural committee and business Wednesday, alleging that the committee violated its nonprofit status by spending more than $1 million to book a ballroom at Trump\u2019s D.C. hotel that its staff knew was overpriced and that it barely used.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">During the lead-up to Trump\u2019s January 2017 inauguration, the committee booked the Trump International Hotel ballroom for $175,000 a day, plus more than $300,000 in food and beverage costs, over the objections of its own event planner.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The committee was formed to organize the events around the inauguration, but Racine alleges it instead \u201cabandoned this purpose and violated District law when it wasted approximately $1 million of charitable funds in overpayment for the use of event space at the Trump hotel.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of self-dealing is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>This corruption is endemic among not-for-profits, and when that is juxtaposed with the Trump crime family, the corruption is inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington, DC Attorney General has sued the Trump inaugural committee for self-dealing when it overpaid for events at Trump properties. This is perhaps the least surprising big of corruption revealed today: D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued President Trump\u2019s inaugural committee and business Wednesday, alleging that the committee violated its nonprofit status by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[599,368,573],"class_list":["post-177010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charity","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}