New Trump Hotel Investigation Makes Six Probes Involving President
BY GREG PRICE ON 8/31/17 AT 12:10 PM
Whether it’s his campaign, family members, friends, business associates or even his business, it seems everywhere President Donald Trump turns there's an investigation involving him.
The latest probe, which raises the grand total to six, has to do with Trump International Hotel in Washington and the lease it obtained from the General Services Administration (GSA), Bloomberg BNA reported Tuesday.
Both the Government Accountability Office and the GSA’s Office of Inspector General are looking into the lease after two Democratic lawmakers, Representatives Peter DeFazio of Oregon and Hank Johnson of George, penned a letter in June asking for an inquiry.
The agencies responded, meaning the president now has at least some involvement in six different federal probes. To date, the four other known investigations are being conducted by the House and Senate intelligence committees, as well as by the Senate Judiciary Committee and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is heading up the FBI’s probe into whether Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia in an effort to win the White House.
A GSA spokesperson told Bloomberg the exact scope of its investigation had yet to be determined, but the report comes after the agency claimed on March 23 the hotel’s lease was in “full compliance.”
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