T-Mobile Hotel Spending During the Sprint Merger Review: Audit finding

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The hotel spending and the merger review overlap, both documented. The evidence does not establish that the patronage affected the government's decision.

   • 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. Congress: Congressional letters concerning T-Mobile executives' Trump hotel staysQuestions concerning bookings following the Sprint merger announcement
   • The Washington Post: T-Mobile acknowledges it spent more at Trump hotel after Sprint merger announcementCompany letter, reported hotel spending and merger-review chronology