Former U.S. President Donald Trump was eliminated as a director from the board of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) final month, state paperwork confirmed, weeks earlier than the agency was served with subpoenas from federal authorities.

The doc from the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations, dated June 8, additionally confirmed that Donald Trump Jr and Kashyap Patel had been eliminated as administrators.

Truth Social, the social media platform owned by the corporate, mentioned in a post that Donald Trump nonetheless stays on the board of TMTG.

TMTG didn’t reply to a Reuters request for additional particulars on the submitting.

The firm acquired a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 27 and one other subpoena from a federal grand jury within the Southern District of New York on June 30, regulatory submitting confirmed final week.

TMTG agreed to merge with blank-cheque agency Digital World in October and the deal was anticipated to shut by the second half of this 12 months.

The SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority have been investigating the deal since late final 12 months. On June 13, Digital World mentioned the SEC had sought extra info on the deal. The SEC has been wanting into whether or not Digital World broke guidelines by having substantial talks about shopping for Trump’s firm beginning early final 12 months earlier than Digital World offered inventory to the general public for the primary time in September. Just weeks later it introduced it could be shopping for Trump’s firm.

Trump’s social media providing, referred to as Truth Social, launched in February. It mentioned it’s combating Big Tech limits on speech. Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube final 12 months after the January 6 Capitol riot.

Trump Media final 12 months lined up dozens of traders to pump $1 billion (roughly Rs. XXX crore) into the corporate, however cannot get the money till the Digital World acquisition is accomplished. An extra $300 million (roughly Rs. XXX crore) would come from Digital World itself.