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Eric Trump has addressed accusations that his friend Boris Epshteyn, a longtime counselor to his father, President-elect Donald Trump, was “shaking down” people who wanted to work for him in the Trump administration.
The president-elect’s “legal team discovered evidence that a top adviser requested retainer fees from prospective appointees in order to promote them for jobs in the new administration,” according to The New York Times.
A probe by Trump’s attorneys allegedly found that Epshteyn requested that Scott Bessent, whom Trump has appointed as his nominee for Treasury Secretary, pay him between $30,000 and $40,000 per month to gain his support as an advocate.
“Mr. Bessent declined. He also did not partake in another effort by Mr. Epshteyn, described in the report, to get him to invest in a three-on-three basketball league, but played along with him to avoid offending such a seemingly powerful figure in Mr. Trump’s world,” the NYT reported.
The report added: “Mr. Bessent then called Mr. Epshteyn on Nov. 14 to see whether he was criticizing Mr….
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