![]() ![]() Racine’s office claimed Wolkoff warned President Trump, Ivanka Trump and other inauguration officials that the price was too high, "an amount far above even the hotel’s own internal pricing guidelines," according to a Racine release. In January, the District of Columbia's attorney general Karl Racine sued President Trump's inaugural committee and companies, saying the nonprofit organization "grossly" misused its funds by overpaying for space at Trump's hotel in Washington during the inauguration – paying $1.03 million for food and space over four days. Wolkoff has been back in the spotlight this year as her knowledge of the inaugural committee's workings caught the eye of investigators. “Did I personally receive $26 million or $1.6 million? No. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former advisor to Melania Trump who is now a lead witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump ’s inaugural. In a May 2019 New York Times story, Wolkoff denied that she was forced out and that she had excessively profited from helping to organize the inauguration. Spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said at the time that the first lady's office had "severed the gratuitous services contract" with Wolkoff. That duty ceased abruptly in February 2018 after a New York Times report revealed tax filings showing that the Trump inaugural committee paid $26 million to Wolkoff's recently formed company, WIS Media Partners of Marina del Rey, Calif. John Bolton's memoir: Trump's White House was 'like living inside a pinball machine' She was one of the first people the first lady turned to after Trump was elected, working as an unpaid senior adviser. Wolkoff, who was known for helping Vogue editor Anna Wintour plan the annual Met Gala social event, has been a friend to the first lady for 15 years. The book announcement follows the release of a critical memoir by President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, and just before the July 14 publication date of niece Mary Trump's family tell-all, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man." ![]()
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