This is what happens when you get in bed with a scammer.
Instead of giving Kaepernick a job, NFL owners were busy giving money to Trump’s campaign and now the Feds might have a little talk with them.
SI breaks it down.
NFL owners who donated to President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee are potentially linked to a federal investigation into suspicions of bribery and misappropriated funds. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is investigating whether donors to Trump’s inaugural committee believed they were buying favors from, and influence within, the incoming administration.
The federal investigation stems in part from analysis of written documents, computer files and other evidence obtained in raids of properties connected to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III sentenced Cohen to three years in prison.
If donors are found to have paid for favors, they would find themselves vulnerable to criminal charges for corruption.
Owners financially supporting Trump might be motivated by non-NFL reasons. Some owners, for example, are longtime friends of Trump. To that point, New York Jets co-owner Robert “Woody” Johnson, who reportedly attended Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania Knavs, has spoken glowingly about Trump—going so far as to say he’s raising his two sons to become “just like Donald Trump.” Trump thinks highly of Johnson, too, as he nominated him to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. After the Senate confirmed the nomination in 2017, Johnson relinquished control of the team to his brother, Christopher Johnson.
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