Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: Audit finding

Date: 2017-01-04
Entry type: audit-finding
Current status: Cited analysis

Entities and roles

America First Audit: Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Tripaudit case
Donald J. Trumpcomparison subject

Claims and evidence

analysisdocumented
The trip created a documented public-cost/private-business-support pattern; it does not establish that the protection spending was paid to a Trump entity or produced a quantified profit.
- Time: Read a Transcript of Donald Trump's Press Conference on Conflicts of InterestSheri Dillon remarks: no new foreign deals, limited information rights, compliance counsel, and donation of foreign-government hotel profits
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government PaymentsBipartisan committee letter describing the January pledge and requesting implementation records
- U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to CongressPages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: CREW gets Trump family business Secret Service spending documentsBusiness-purpose travel examples and FOIA spending records