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FOIA News: Tom Steyer leads FOIA campaign against Trump and Kushner

JARED KUSHNER AND DONALD TRUMP TO GET 200 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS FROM IMPEACHMENT CAMPAIGN

By Jessica Kwong, Newsweek, Mar. 15, 2018

A campaign aimed at getting President Donald Trump impeached plans to file more than 200 public records requests on him and his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s business dealings in an attempt to shed light on conflicts of interest.

The requests demanding records of Trump and Kushner’s business interactions with government agencies and administration members’ expenditures will be filed on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Day on March 16, the “Need to Impeach” campaign announced on Thursday.

Campaign founder and major Democratic donor Tom Steyer hired a team of two lawyers and three researchers to file the requests on the birthday of former President James Madison, a Founding Father and advocate for government transparency.

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