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Trump Nominee’s Media Nonprofit Is Under Investigation: WaPo

MISJUDGED MOVIE MOGUL?

The D.C. attorney general is looking into why Trump’s pick to head the Agency for Global Media allegedly paid himself so much.

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President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media properties, is under investigation for allegedly misusing his nonprofit’s money, The Washington Post reports. Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker, ran Public Media Lab, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit, which paid Pack’s production company, Manifold Productions, $1.6 million over the course of eight years. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said the D.C. attorney general is investigating Peck over whether his use of the funds was “unlawful and whether he improperly used those funds to benefit himself.”

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