Trump’s company charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ hotel rates to protect the first family, House committee report says

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/trump-secret-service-hotel-rates/index.html

The committee said the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service more than the government rate at least 40 times from January 2017 to September 2021.

One of those times was in March 2017 when the Trump Organization charged a nightly rate of $1,160 to stay at the Trump hotel in Washington, DC, to protect Eric Trump, who was promoting a golf tournament at the Trump National Golf Club. According to the General Services Administration’s website, the per diem rate was $242 in March 2017 in Washington, DC.