Banker's daughter floods MAGA PAC with millions as dad dodges felony bribery charges

A key super PAC supporting President Donald Trump got a series of donations from a woman whose father, a banker, settled out felony charges of bribery in Puerto Rico, reported The New York Times on Friday.

The new details about how MAGA Inc. raised $100 million in the second half of 2025 included a number of entities with business before the administration, wrote Ken Vogel and Karen Yourish, including "$12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife, Anna Brockman; and contributions totaling $20 million from the parent company of Crypto.com," as well as donors from vape company Juul, whose product recently secured FDA approval, and American Rights and Reform PAC, a pro-marijuana group.

But one of the more striking cases, said the article, involved one Isabela Herrera.

Herrera "initially donated $2.5 million to MAGA Inc. in late 2024 as her father, Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was facing federal charges for trying to bribe the governor of Puerto Rico in 2020," said the report. "In May, a top Trump appointee at the Justice Department authorized a misdemeanor plea deal to settle the case, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed for a harsher sentence. In July, Ms. Herrera donated another $1 million to MAGA Inc."

This comes after a report back in August detailed how MAGA Inc. is effectively operating as a platform to sell access and favor with the president, despite it ostensibly being an independent and distinct entity not under control of the president by law.

It also comes as Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who has been covering the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case for years, has speculated that donors to pro-Trump causes who may appear in the Epstein case files are leaning on Trump and the Justice Department to obscure their names in the Congressionally-required release of the documents.