Nonilex…Rejected by #banks & #lenders over the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection & his long history of &bankruptcies & #business #failures, #Trump had approved the merger of his company w/a #SPAC as a way to raise money in the months after he lost the WH. Often called “blank check” firms, SPACs promise access to public stock investors w/fewer #FinancialDisclosures than a traditional corporate listing requires.
Those profits caught the attention of federal ofcls who launched a sprawling investigation into #DWAC’s #investors, the details of which raise questions about how #Trump, who built his #political reputation in part on having mastered “the art of the deal,” ended up committed to a business arrangement that federal agents now allege was undermined from its inception by #FinancialFraud.
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Digital World’s chief exec, #PatrickOrlando, a Miami financier #Trump had hosted at his golf clubs, had been telling #investors privately for months that he’d been talking w/Trump about the deal, the filings assert — a violation of #FederalSecurities #law, the #SEC would say later, given his company’s pledge in regulatory filings that its leaders had held no talks w/any merger targets.
In Oct 2021, #Trump announced that his #media company, …owner of…Truth Social, had sealed an incredible deal: a merger w/a “special purpose acquisition company” that would deliver his firm $300M….
By then, however, the #InsiderTrading by #investors in the #SPAC, #DigitalWorldAcquisition, had already begun, acc/to documents filed recently in the #criminal case against 3 #DWAC #investors who’ve been charged w/ #securities #fraud in NewYork federal court.
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By then, however, the #InsiderTrading by #investors in the #SPAC, #DigitalWorldAcquisition, had already begun, acc/to documents filed recently in the #criminal case against 3 #DWAC #investors who’ve been charged w/ #securities #fraud in NewYork federal court.
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