Article snippet: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into whether The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Journal reported that many of the president's biggest campaign supporters were contributors to his inaugural fund. Donating in exchange for political favors or using funds for purposes other than the inauguration could violate federal laws. The news outlet, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the investigation is in its early stages, and stemmed from materials obtained during an FBI raid earlier this year of longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Investigators in those raids reportedly obtained a recorded conversation between Cohen and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser to first lady MORE who worked on the inauguration. Wolkoff is heard expressing concern about how the committee was spending money, the Journal reported, but the news outlet could not determine when the conversation took place. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders distanced Trump from the inauguration committee Thursday. "That doesn't have anything to do with the president or the first lady," Sanders told reporters. "The biggest thing the president did, his engagement in the inauguration, was to come here and raise his hand and take the oath of office. The president was focused on the transition at that time and not on any of the planning for the inauguration." A lawyer close to the matter told the Journal that the inaugural committee, which is registere... Link to the full article to read more