Gates testimony dredges up Trump inaugural spending mystery

 

August 15, 2018



WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's inaugural committee pushed back hard last summer on questions about whether the unprecedented $107 million budget for the event was fraught with cost overruns and misspending. A top inauguration official assured The Associated Press that spending had been restrained and monitored.

In court last week, that same official — Rick Gates — acknowledged that he personally may have pocketed some of the inaugural committee's money.

Gates, the government's star witness in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial, admitted to Manafort'...



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