A key super PAC supporting President Donald Trump received a series of donations from a woman whose father, a banker, settled felony charges of bribery in Puerto Rico, The New York Times reported on Friday.
The new details about how MAGA Inc. raised $100 million in the second half of 2025 include contributions from several entities with business before the administration, according to Ken Vogel and Karen Yourish. Among the donors were Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife, Anna Brockman, each contributing $12.5 million. Additionally, the parent company of Crypto.com donated a total of $20 million. Other notable donors included the vape company Juul, whose product recently secured FDA approval, and American Rights and Reform PAC, a pro-marijuana group.
One of the more striking cases involved Isabela Herrera. She initially donated $2.5 million to MAGA Inc. in late 2024 while her father, Julio Herrera Velutini—a Venezuelan-Italian banker—was facing federal charges for attempting to bribe the governor of Puerto Rico in 2020.
In May, a top Trump appointee at the Justice Department authorized a misdemeanor plea deal to settle the case, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed for a harsher sentence. Then, in July, Ms. Herrera made an additional $1 million donation to MAGA Inc.
This report follows an earlier August article detailing how MAGA Inc. effectively operates as a platform to sell access and favor with the president, despite being legally independent and distinct from presidential control.
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