Bondi silent on whether she’s been offered White House job

WASHINGTON — Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, who came under scrutiny last year for her office’s dealings with Trump University and Presidentelect Donald Trump, will take a job at the White House, according to a person familiar with the decision.

It was not immediately clear what her title would be. Bondi was not among a lengthy list of White House appointments has Trump announced this week so far.

Bondi declined to say at an appearance in Tampa on Thursday whether she was considering a job with Trump. “I’m very happy being attorney general. I’d never discuss anything confidential,” she told the Tampa Bay Times.

A Washington watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service last year charging that Trump’s charitable foundation violated its taxexempt status by making a $25,000 donation to a political group associated with Bondi in 2013.

Bondi later decided not to pursue claims by Florida residents that Trump University had defrauded them.

Trump’s foundation paid a $2,500 fine to the IRS last year for the donation to the Bondi-connected group.

At the time of its complaint, CREW’s board was led by David Brock, who ran two super-PACs backing Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump’s general election opponent.