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... The government watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) sent a letter to the FBI and the Department of Justice asking them to investigate whether Trump falsely reported the $50 million owed to one of his own companies, Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC ("Chicago Loan"), as a liability on all nine public financial disclosure reports he filed with the Federal Election Commission ("FEC") and the Office of Government Ethics ("OGE"). Trump filed the disclosure reports between 2015 and 2023, even though the loan "appears to have never existed," according to the CREW letter.

"It is not clear why Mr. Trump would have reported a non-existent loan as a liability owed to one of his own companies," the letter states. "Some reporting suggests that the deal could be part of a tax-avoidance scheme, known as debt parking, that has been used by taxpayers to purchase debt and then leave it in a separately-owned entity rather than incur tax liability on debt which has been forgiven." ...