Ranking Member Robert Garcia Investigates Reports of Foreign Money Flowing to President Trump’s Son-in-Law

Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to President Trump’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos, businessman and Boulos associate, James Frangi, and Saudi businessman, Abdulelah Allam. The letters respond to public reporting that Mr. Boulos received $100,000 for leveraging his ties to President Trump to help Mr. Allam retrieve assets seized by the Saudi government in a corruption crackdown. According to public reports, Mr. Frangi, who is also Mr. Boulos’s cousin, served as a middleman in Boulos’s shady dealings with the Saudi businessman. Ranking Member Garcia is seeking details of the deal and demanding to know whether Boulos is continuing to profit from marrying into the Trump family. 

“Reporting that President Trump’s son-in-law received $100,000 from a Saudi businessman raises serious concerns that corrupt foreign money is being used to buy access to the President and influence American policy. The American people deserve to know whether their government is working for them or for the benefit of foreign billionaire businessmen. Committee Democrats are determined to get answers,” said Ranking Member Garcia. 

“The New York Times reported that you accepted $100,000 from Mr. Allam following a June 2022 meeting facilitated by your cousin, James Frangi.  Reporting indicates that this payment was made in exchange for your assistance in the retrieval of potentially billions of dollars in real estate seized from Mr. Allam by the Saudi government during a 2017 corruption crackdown,” wrote Ranking Member Garcia. 

Ranking Member Garcia also notes that this latest reporting should be of interest to Chairman James Comer, who has spent the majority of his tenure as Chairman of the Committee investigating President Biden and his family for “influence peddling,” despite not being able to produce any evidence to support such claims.  

“This case appears to fit a pattern of unscrupulous behavior by the Trump family, including Jared Kushner’s investment firm receiving $2 billion from the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia shortly after Mr. Kushner left the White House; President Trump’s exploitation of his ownership of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. to unlawfully take hundreds of payments from U.S. Secret Service, foreign governments, federal and state officials, federal job seekers, and presidential pardon recipients; and, more recently, President Trump’s receipt of a $400 million luxury airliner as a gift from the Qatari government,” concluded Ranking Member Garcia. 

Click here to read the letters to Mr. Michael Boulos, Mr. James Frangi, and Mr. Abdulelah Allam. 

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