The new requests expand an investigation prosecutors opened late last year amid a flurry of scrutiny of the inaugural committee. Prosecutors also requested all documents related to vendors and contractors with the inaugural committee, which raised a record $107 million and spent lavishly. As part of their own inquiry, the prosecutors in Manhattan are questioning whether foreign nationals illegally donated to Trump’s inaugural committee. The Manhattan investigation into the inaugural committee grew out of the investigation into Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer. On another, Cohen spoke to Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was a top official on the inaugural committee.

Source: bd News24 February 05, 2019 06:33 UTC