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Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors

Former President Donald Trump was not implicated in the New York securities fraud case.

Davidson College alumnus and trial lawyer Patrick Mincey tackles complex cases involving public corruption, alleged fraud and money laundering. He also represents whistleblowers who put their careers, and sometimes their lives, on the line to speak truth to power. Learn more. 

The investors are accused of making $22 million from insider trading on securities before news of the Trump media merger was made public.

The Scoop - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a senior advisor to a firm helping advise on investments for a business that is part of a sprawling corruption investigation into Venezuela’s national oil company, according to people familiar with the matter and documents seen by Semafor.

Will Wilkerson publicly accused Trump Media and Technology Group of violating securities laws last year, becoming a whistleblower.

“It’s an honest day’s work,” Will Wilkerson says about the $16 an hour job, the only work he’s found since he was fired from the Trump Media platform he helped found.

About six months ago, Will Wilkerson was the executive vice president of operations for former president Donald Trumps media business, and a co-founder of Trumps Truth Social website. Today, he is a certified barista trainer at a Starbucks inside a Harris Teeter grocery store.

Exclusive: financing with suspected Russian ties came at a critical time as company was running out of cash after a planned merger

New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties