D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued President Trump’s inaugural committee and his family business, alleging that the committee overpaid the Trump Organization’s Washington hotel for event space to enrich the company
WASHINGTON—District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine sued President Trump’s inaugural committee and his family business on Wednesday, alleging that the committee abused its nonprofit status by overpaying the Trump Organization’s Washington hotel for event space to enrich the company.
In an 18-page complaint, the attorney general’s office alleges that the $175,000-per-day payments from the inaugural committee to the Trump International Hotel—made against the advice of the committee’s event planner that the charges were...
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