D.C. Attorney General Probes America’s World Fair Push
The Attorney General in the District of Columbia is investigating USA Pavilion 2020, a non-profit effort overseen by the State Department, to showcase American business, culture, and technology at the World’s Fair. That’s according to an individual familiar with the matter and other details of the investigation obtained by The Daily Beast.
Every two or three years, officials, businesspeople, and tourists from around the globe gather for the World’s Fair, where countries highlight new inventions, works of art, transportation designs, and more in pop-up exhibitions for public viewing. The U.S. has previously spent tens of millions of dollars to build its pavilions. The 2020 gathering was set to take place in Dubai in October but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Soon after the 2017 World’s Fair in Astana, Kazakhstan, a cohort of accounting, architecture, engineering and food services firms clinched bids and worked under a singular non-profit to work on the U.S. pavilion in Dubai. The team was set to highlight Virgin’s ultra high-speed Hyperloop transportation system—a train-like system that could, one day, allow a passenger to travel from Los Angeles to New York in under five hours.
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