Described as one of the biggest affaires, Prime Minister Edi Rama's connection to former FBI intelligence chief Charles McGonigal has ended in allegations of spending about $6,000 from the head of the Albanian government at one of President Donald Trump's hotels.
A group of U.S. senators has been able to obtain, after a legal battle, data about spending that governments or government-affiliated entities in different countries have spent on lunch, dinner, or sleep in Donald Trump's hotels.
In an attempt to hit Donald Trump, accusing him of profiting from foreign government actors who have spent various amounts of money, they have made public the list of Trump hotel clients, featuring Prime Minister Edi Rama, former minister Damian Gjiknuri and two Rama advisers. Dorian Duçka and Endri Fuga.
While the opposition in Albania accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of having managed to bribe the top FBI official, McGonigal by "ordering" him to declare his political enemies in Tirana "non grata" and even giving McGonigal "sacks of money" to remove from the list of "non-gratave" politicians and businessmen, what has actually resulted from the report is a bill of nearly $6,000 that top Albanian officials have paid. To sleep at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. during their visit to the United States.
According to the allegations, Rama, after "pocketing" McGonigal, had tried to influence President Donald Trump himself, and tried to do so by doing so. He slept two nights at his hotel on March 3 and 4, 2018, with a bill costing him $1158.
Rama stayed at Trump's hotel while meeting mcGonigal in the US, which Rama said publicly, saying at a news conference that he met with McGonigal in both the US and Tirana.
The bill of stays of Ramma, Gjiknur, Dorian Duke, Endri Fuga and Keisi Seferi, on different dates and hours at Trump's hotel, amounts to a total of 6,200 dollars.