Trump’s Media Company Is Investigated Over Financing Deal
The New York Times
A financing company told investors that it wasn’t in deal talks, weeks after its C.E.O. held a private videoconference about a possible deal with Donald Trump.
One day in April, a group of men gathered on a videoconference call to discuss a deal to bankroll former President Donald J. Trump’s planned media company.
Among the participants, according to two people familiar with the call, were Mr. Trump’s representatives and the chief executive and a future board member of Digital World Acquisition, a so-called blank-check company that would announce the deal with Mr. Trump six months later.
At the time, Patrick Orlando, Digital World’s chief executive, was also running several other blank-check companies, and it’s unclear which one he was representing on the videoconference.
