Recent filings made by the AG’s office show that the probe is starting to home in on the actions of Trump’s longtime financial confidant and others.
“The world’s about to learn how Trump’s inner circle—with Trump’s full knowledge—took advantage of the presidential inauguration,” said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who helped put together inaugural events and is now a lead witness for the government in this case.
“Everything they did was all about self-dealing. They had a nonprofit pay them for their own hotel at an inflated cost,” she told The Daily Beast.
I've been reading Winston Wolkoff's book - she has done some amazing organizing in the past, but the Trump folks brought her in then ignored her recommendations and shoveled money into their own coffers as fast as they could, hoping apparently to leave her holding the bag. She kept detailed records, she kept receipts. And when she wrote the book, she basically goes step by step through what happened. And Melania is as corrupt as the rest of them, though she supposedly had Winston Wolkoff come in as a favor to her. For a while it was Melania trying to wrest control of some of it from the kids, but it wasn't really.
“I didn’t understand why anything was being done for the kids. It’s not a birthday party. This is for the United States of America swearing in the most powerful executive in the world,” Winston Wolkoff, who said she had to awkwardly jockey to block the creation of events that were clearly self-dealing, like Junior’s hunting-themed “Sportsman’s Ball” and Ivanka’s “Ladies Luncheon.”
“Why is Ivanka bringing together 100 influential women when she’s not on the Cabinet?” she said. “These kids were doing events for themselves... by them, for them, with them... with other people’s money meant for a nonprofit.”