Head of Trump's Kennedy Center calls for studies on his finances

Richard Grenell, which President Trump installed as President of the Kennedy Center, claimed on Monday evening that the centered maintenance and deficit of the center – two things that are often found in non -profit art organizations – “criminal”. He said he would forward the matter to federal lawyers.

In an interview with Mr. Trump and a group of board members at a dinner in the state point of the White House, Mr. Grenell said that civil servants who looked at the center of the center in the past two years had found “Phantom revenue of $ 26 million and fake income of $ 26 million”.

“It's criminal,” said Grenell. “We will refer this to the US law firm.”

The Kennedy Center officers attributed the deficits to a review of the center of the center, Donna Arduin. It was not immediately clear which officials considered criminal or why they earned the attention of the federal investigators. Non -profit art organizations such as the Kennedy Center rely on a mixture of philanthropy and ticket sales and often carry out deficits when they leave the forecasts. A little more than a decade ago, the Metropolitan Opera ran a deficit of 22 million US dollars.

Deborah F. Rutter, whom Mr. Trump released as President, when he took control of the center in February, was not available for a comment. Mr. Trump took over the center after he had flushed his formerly cross -party board of Biden representatives, the chairman, the financier David M. Rubenstein, and the chairman himself.

Christopher W. Ullman, a spokesman for Mr. Rubenstein, defended the center's former management.

“With full transparency, the financial reports were checked and approved by the examination board of the Kennedy Center and the full mode as well as a large accounting company,” he said.

During dinner, Mr. Trump repeated his symptoms about the physical condition of the center. When I said, 'I will do that,' I wasn't there, “said Mr. Trump.” This is the last time that I would take a job without looking at him. “At some point, Mr. Trump compared his task in the Kennedy Center with his efforts to renovate Wollman Rink, an ice rink in New York Central Park, in the 1980s.