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Shortly after Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that a New York–based #casting #agency called Extra Mile had apparently #hired #actors to fill out his announcement event. (which took place on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York).
Trump’s team immediately denied that anyone at the announcement was a paid actor.
A document released Thursday by the Federal Election Commission, however, concludes otherwise.

The FEC document is, specifically, a record of its decision not to sanction the Trump campaign for conduct related to the apparent transaction.
A complaint filed by an activist group that supported Hillary Clinton had alleged that the Trump camp had violated reporting laws related to payments for the actors;
the FEC concluded that no significant violation had occurred because the campaign later disclosed a payment to a contractor (Gotham Government Relations) that subcontracted with Extra Mile.
But in the course of explaining why it would not discipline the campaign, the FEC concludes that some announcement attendees were, in fact, paid to be there

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/trump-paid-actors-to-fill-out-campaign-launch-fec-says.html