The organizers of Fireaid said on Tuesday that they had in charge of the law firm of the concert, Latham & Watkins, to examine the organization’s grant process as a charitable concert for President Donald Trump and a Congress member in California on the way the $ 100 million that the show had collected has been distributed so far.
Trump exploded Fireaid over the weekend, going to Truth Social to call the Fair of Benefits “a total disaster” and “another scam inspired by the Democrat”, saying that the $ 100 million that the concert had collected are missing. Trump blows in Fireaid came before attacking the Californian governor Gavin Newsom (appellant Newscum) once again, alleging that the governor managed the fire. Meanwhile, Kevin Kiley, a member of the Republican Congress of the Third District of California, had called for the Ministry of Justice to investigate the way Fireaid disbursed his donations, saying that “none of the $ 100 million dollars went directly to the Los An Victims
Fireaid published a declaration on Saturday on social networks, displaying that “there was an increasing quantity of disinformation shared online on the distribution of Faireaid funds”, also specifying that Fireaid had already dispersed $ 75 million to 160 organizations, including food banks, non -profit organizations, schools and other local organizations. The remaining 25 million dollars will be dispersed by the end of the year, said Fiaid.
Control towards Fireaid occurs about six months after the concert at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome in Los Angeles at the end of January. The concert was organized by the music industry Titan Irving Azoff, alongside Live Nation and the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer, among others, while the Annenberg Foundation had been responsible for managing the funds that the concert collected. Fireaid was one of the most starred events of recent memory, bringing Olivia Rodrigo, Pink, Katy Perry, Billie Eilish and Green Day, among others.
In a letter that Latham & Watkins had sent to Kiley on behalf of Fireaid on Tuesday, the firm had denied Kiley’s allegations to give money to inappropriate organizations for fire alleviation, saying that “organizations that have received funds are both worthy and have close relations with recovery efforts.”
The company also denied that Fireaid’s collected funds had been diverted from the victims, declaring that Fireaid “disbursed subsidies to non -profit organizations and organizations which are able to relieve directly, through a wide range of services, to the survivors of fires and their communities”.
Latham & Watkins declared in the letter to Kiley that the organizations which had received Fireaid subsidies are
“Compulsory to report on the use of funds” so that Fireaid can check that money is used correctly. The law firm, who has worked with Fireaid since the organization of the event, said that he
Perform “a complete examination of the governance and granting processes of Fireaid subsidies”, which, according to Latham & Watkins
