Ex-Trump ambassador's hotel faces $28,000 fine for illegal corporate reimbursements: report
Former President Donald Trump's one-time ambassador Gordon Sondland is in hot water, as a hotel he owns faces tens of thousands of dollars in fines, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.
"The Federal Election Commission slapped a $28,000 fine on the hotel company belonging to Trump’s former ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, for illegal corporate reimbursements totaling more than $100,000, according to documents released Friday," reported Roger Sollenberger. "In sworn testimony, the president of Provenance Hotels said he was 'acting under the directions' of Sondland personally, according to the FEC general counsel’s report, a claim the former ambassador disputed in his own affidavit."
The FEC first became aware of this arrangement, which took place between 2018 and 2019, on a tipoff from the company itself, said the report: "About $21,000 of the illicit donations went to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who downplayed the scandal and later asked President Donald Trump not to remove Sondland from his post, The New York Times previously reported; Trump fired him anyway," the article states....