Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Are Being Withheld, Ethics Group Says
- Transparency groups won lawsuit to make records public
- Florida resort has attracted attention over Trump visits
The Mar-a-Lago resort is seen on Feb. 11, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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A government transparency group vowed on Friday to continue a court battle to open up visitor logs at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, after the administration provided only the names of Japanese staff who attended a February visit from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, one of three government transparency groups that sued the Department of Homeland Security for the information, obtained and released the records on Friday. The Justice Department said in a letter to CREW that the records were responsive to the group’s request under the Freedom of Information Act.