[9] According to The New York Times, the Mar-a-Lago Crowd got its start in 2016 when Ike Perlmutter offered to advise Donald Trump on veterans affairs.

Perlmutter then recruited his personal physician, Bruce Moskowitz, who brought in his squash partner, Marc Sherman, to round out the threesome.

[2] The exposé analyses Department Emails from 2017 and 2018 obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington through freedom of information act requests.

[17] In 2018 the progressive Veteran's advocacy group VoteVets filed a lawsuit against the VA seeking to block the Mar-a-Lago Crowd from continuing to influence policy.

The group alleged that VA officials had violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act by failing to record any of their meetings with the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.

[21] House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano has accused Secretary Robert Wilkie of "stonewalling" the congressional investigation into the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.