NY attorney general subpoenas GSA for records on Trump hotel ‘deal’: report

Source: The Hill | February 1, 2022 | Cameron Jenkins

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) subpoenaed the General Services Administration (GSA) this week, requesting records concerning how the agency chose former President Trump’s business to lease the federally owned Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C., for his hotel, The Washington Post reported.

James’s inquiry, which is part of a probe into Trump’s business, is seeking information about whether Trump secured the lease after exaggerating his net worth, two people familiar with the matter told the Post on the condition of anonymity.

Included among the documents that James requested was reportedly a scorecard the GSA used to rank Trump’s bid against other developers who hoped to lease and redevelop the historic building. According to the Post, the information included in that record could aid James’s effort to establish a pattern of the former president presenting his business partners, insurers and banks with false information in order to obtain other deals and loans, the Post noted.

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The House Oversight and Reform Committee in October raised similar concerns regarding whether Trump misled the GSA in the process of making the deal. At the time, committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) contacted GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan and alleged that Trump “concealed hundreds of millions of dollars in debts from GSA when bidding on the Old Post Office Building lease,” the Post reported.

Maloney and Connolly also called for an investigation into the deal, according to the news outlet.

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