Daily Mail UK: First Lady Melania FIRES first adviser she hired in the White House and longtime friend following revelations her event-planning firm received $26 million to help plan President Trump's $100 million inauguration
First Lady Melania Trump has fired her adviser and longtime friend whose firm received $26million in payments to help plan President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's contract was terminated last week, according to The New York Times.
Wolkoff had been working contractually as an unpaid senior adviser to the office of the first lady.
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Reports of the large expenditure to the new company drew immediate condemnation from the Campaign Legal Center, which pushed for the release of earlier information about the inauguration. 'It is uncertain why Trump's inaugural committee paid nearly $26 million to a newly-created firm with close ties to the Trump family, and paid $25 million to the same event planning firm that did the job for $5 million in 2008,' said Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center.