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CNN: Atlanta pastor, Evers» widow named to speak at inauguration The widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and an Atlanta pastor will deliver the invocation and benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration January 21, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday.

The businessmen, Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz, served on de Blasio's inaugural committee in 2013 and contributed to his campaign.

Everything else, the ad hoc inaugural committee pays for with corporate and other donor support: the concerts, porta - potties, and jumbo TV screens.

Boeing began discussing the $ 1 million pledge with Trump's inaugural committee last week, an official in the company who did not wish to be named told Fortune.

Following the 2008 election, President Obama's inaugural committee accepted over $ 54 million in donations.

Obama's inaugural committee raised $ 55 million in 2009.

It had so much left over that it used the surplus to renovate and redecorate the Oval Office and still had several million dollars left over for the second inauguration, Emmett Beliveau, who was CEO of the presidential inaugural committee at the time, told Business Insider.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee did not respond to numerous requests for comment.

A spokesperson for the Presidential Inaugural Committee confirmed that «there will be an effort to replace him,» but declined to specify who it might be.

The Rev. Luis León told CNN on Tuesday the White House and the Presidential Inaugural Committee invited him last week to deliver the closing prayer at the 57th Presidential Inauguration.

In a response, the presidential inaugural committee spokesperson, Addie Whisenant, said, «Pastor Giglio was asked to deliver the benediction in large part for his leadership in combating human trafficking around the world.

Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee acknowledged that a final report it filed with the Federal Election Commission this month was riddled with errors, and it plans to file an amended and / or corrected version.

Leshinsky, who also goes by Isaac, has been a longtime friend of the de Blasios and served on the mayor's inaugural committee when he first took office.

Separately, federal agents operated a wiretap that captured the conversations of two businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who were friends with two top police officials and served on de Blasio's inaugural committee in 2013 and contributed to his campaign, two law enforcement officials said.

Trump's inaugural committee paid nearly $ 26 million to an event planning firm started by an adviser to the first lady, Melania Trump, while donating $ 5 million — less than expected — to charity, according to tax filings released today.

After winning the mayoral election, Thomas established the Richard Thomas Inaugural Committee («RTIC»), ostensibly to fund an inaugural celebration, but instead allegedly personally profited from RTIC by diverting over $ 45,000 for personal use and failing to disclose it.

Before working for the U.S. Department of Labor, she served as the director of the Inaugural Balls with the 53rd Presidential Inaugural Committee, as the Director of Events with the Democratic National Committee, and as Director of Events with the Clinton / Gore 1996 presidential campaign.

Luckey's re-emergence coincided with a new report from Mother Jones that he had donated $ 100,000 to the inaugural committee of President Donald Trump, through entities whose names referred to a cult - classic video game.

The company has indeed given to past presidential inaugural committees: In 2013, Boeing gave $ 1 million to President Barack Obama, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Trump's inaugural committee has already secured some $ 50 million in pledged donations.

«It's a blank slate,» said Brian Screnar, who was finance director for Obama's 2009 inaugural committee.

It wasn't until 2002 that inaugural committees were required to release the names of the companies and individuals that gave more than $ 200.

An inaugural committee spokesman told the Associated Press that excess money would be donated to charity, though he didn't give specifics.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee has raised at least $ 90 million — a record — to pay for the festivities and provide big donors some face time with the new administration.

The style and schedule of the inaugural events are entirely up to the incoming administration's inaugural committee, which can also decide how much contact donors have with the new leaders.

Gates, a longtime associate of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, worked for Barrack on Trump's inaugural committee and then for Barrack's investment company, Colony NorthStar.

In addition to working as an intermediary between the campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016, Gates frequently traveled with Trump and later served as an adviser on the inaugural committee after Trump's election in November.

Barrack, a millionaire and former Trump fundraiser who went on to lead the presidential inaugural committee, is a longtime friend of the president who still sends Trump friendly emails to remind him that, «YOU ROCK!»

Wings of Time is among 1,514 people and companies listed in the document filed by the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee to the FEC yesterday.

He is a veteran of the Obama for America and Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaigns, and was also appointed to the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Palmer Luckey, the 24 - year - old tech wunderkind who co-founded the virtual - reality company Oculus, which Facebook bought for $ 2 billion in 2014, donated $ 100,000 to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee, putting him in the upper tier of contributors to the event.

The president - elect's Bible dates back to his childhood, according to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which announced details of Friday's swearing - in.

Trump's inaugural committee is raising money for the festivities surrounding his swearing - in, and offering access to top members of his team.

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a Trump confidant and the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, offered to deliver a statement addressing the crowd size.

He publicly gave faulty facts and figures — which he said were provided to him by the Presidential Inaugural Committee — that prompted a new round of media scrutiny.

He said the numbers he used were not made up but were given to him by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which received them from an «outside agency.»

«It's going the opposite way,» Mr. Barrack, the private equity investor who is leading the presidential inaugural committee, said in an interview.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) made the announcement on Thursday that Obama will take the oath of office on the Robinson family Bible on Sunday and on the Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr..

The inaugural committee announced yesterday that it has selected Giglio to deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama's public swearing - in ceremony on January 21.

It appears that Giglio actually withdrew his acceptance to pray the benediction, though it's possible the Inaugural Committee pressured him to do so.

What if the Inaugural Committee had — in a stroke of stupidity — invited Bill Maher to give a «benediction» at the inauguration?

See the Inaugural Committee's statement.)

Mr. Oppong Nkrumah also indicated that the inaugural committee of the Transition team was putting final touches to preparations for the day of the inauguration.

He is also known to have close ties to the mayor, having served on his inaugural committee and donated to his campaign.

President Trump's inaugural committee will donate $ 3 million to charities assisting in hurricane relief efforts, CNN and The New York Times reported Wednesday.