U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and the embassy she leads are under investigation by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General, two people familiar with the decision confirmed to NBC News.
\n\nThe government watchdog’s probe comes as legal consultant and longtime Donald Trump supporter and donor Eric Deters has accused Guilfoyle of asking him to pay her outstanding $100,000 American Express bill in the days before her 2025 confirmation hearing in exchange for access to senior administration officials.
\n\n“She was so desperate for that $100,000. It was a quid pro quo,” Deters told NBC News in an interview Thursday.
\n\n“She said I could ask her for anything and everything in Trump world. There was no request too big,” he said of Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality, Trump campaign surrogate and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr.
\n\nDeters provided NBC News with a PDF document of texts and Signal messages with Guilfoyle, which were first reported Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal. The Daily Mail first reported the watchdog investigation.
\n\nOne of the messages provided by Deters appears to show Guilfoyle instructing him to wire the money directly to American Express because “it won’t show up anywhere” that way.
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