CNYC: Trump's inauguration committee paid Trump Org. for hotel rooms negotiated by Ivanka Trump

The Trump administration appealed to a federal court on Friday to block these subpoenas.

According to internal communications, the organizers of the inaugural committee complained to Ivanka Trump that the hotel was trying to charge $ 175,000 a day for the use of the property. a ballroom and other meeting rooms.

Committee Chair Stephanie Winston Wolkoff sent an e-mail to Ivanka Trump, then still leader of the Trump organization, in which she argued that the maximum rate should have been $ 85,000 per day, pointing out that the events were for Trump – called "EP" or President-elect.

"These are events in PE's honor in his hotel and one of them is with and for family and close friends," writes Wolkoff in a published e-mail by WNYC.

The letters obtained by WNYC and ProPublica include a message in which Rick Gates, outgoing Speaker of Parliament, thanked Ivanka Trump for her help in negotiating rates.

It is unclear exactly how much the inauguration committee finally paid.

Peter Mirijanian, spokeswoman for Ivanka Trump's Ethics Counsel, told WNYC that she had delegated negotiations with the inauguration committee to "an official of the hotel "and had asked that they be conducted

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment from CNN.

A spokeswoman for the inaugural committee told WNYC that the group "was unaware of any ongoing investigations and had contact with prosecutors." simply no evidence that the investigation exists. "

A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the inquest on the inaugural committee was in its infancy, with investigators generally focusing on the issue to know if the money spent for the inauguration had been badly spent. .