Trump Organization Accused Of Abusing U.K.’s COVID-19 Furlough Program

Trump Organization Accused Of Abusing U.K.’s COVID-19 Furlough Program

Donald Trump plays a round of golf in 2012 after the opening of the Trump International course n Balmedie, Scotland

The Trump Organization has received up to £575,000 -- about $811,000 -- through the U.K. job retention program, with at least £110,000 claimed while the former president was still in office. Critics see this as an abuse of the U.K.'s coronavirus furlough program. Union officials are calling for an investigation of the scandal by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and have lodged complaints about Trump Turnberry's “all-out assault on jobs and conditions." The former director of the Office of Government Ethics under the Obama and Trump administrations called the Trump Organization “disgraceful" for making U.K...

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