When is the director? The branch was launched in Washington last spring. Initial interest in the private club centered around its distinguished list of sponsors and founding members. Previous reports indicate that the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is one of several co-owners of the club. The founding members are reported to be the Trump administration’s AI czar, David Sacks, and his Everything in podcast co-host Chamath Palihapitiya, as well as cryptocurrency industry celebrities Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
“We wanted to create something new, more fashionable and related to Trump” – Sacks he said then. Being close to Trumpworld didn’t come affordable; although the club’s headquarters is there situated in the basement behind the shopping complicated, joining fees are apparently up to $500,000.
The first wave of press about the MAGA hotspot identified Trump Jr. and his associates Omeed Malik, Chris Buskirk and Zach and Alex Witkoff as co-owners of the club. Later, Mother Jones reports revealed the involvement of David Sacks’ regular business collaborator Glenn Gilmore, a San Francisco Bay area developer who is given various titles in official documents, including co-owner, managing member, director and president.
But according to corporate documents reviewed by WIRED, there is another key figure whose involvement has not been previously reported and whose ties to the better-known founders remain unclear: Sean LoJacono, a former Metropolitan Police Department officer in Washington, D.C., who gained local notoriety for his role in the stop-and-frisk that resulted in the lawsuit.
According to the legal complaint, in 2017, after questioning a man named MB Cottingham on suspicion of violating open container laws, LoJacono conducted a body search. Footage of the incident went viral on YouTube, sparking intense debate about aggressive police tactics. “He put his finger in my slit,” Cottingham says in the video. – But stop touching me, brother. The following year, the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia sued LoJacono on Cottingham’s behalf, reproach that LoJacono “placed his fingers between Mr. Cottingham’s buttocks and grabbed his genitals.” Cottingham agreed to settle his lawsuit with LoJacono and received an undisclosed amount from the District of Columbia (which did not admit to any wrongdoing) in 2018.
MPD announced his intention to fire LoJacono following an internal affairs investigation that found that the Cottingham search did not constitute an punishable offense but another search he conducted on the same day did. In early 2019, LoJacono appealed his firing, arguing well-publicized hearings that he conducted the searches according to what other officers in the field had taught him. Initially, the decision to dismiss was upheld. However, the police union’s collective bargaining agreement allowed LoJacono to further appeal to an outside arbitrator, who in November 2023 ruled in favor of LoJacono.
But instead of returning to the police force, LoJacono took a different path. A LinkedIn account containing LoJacono’s name, likeness and employment history lists his occupation as “director of security and facilities management” at an unnamed private club in Washington, D.C. from June 2025 to the present. Executive Branch Circumscribed Liability Company’s official incorporation documents filed with the District of Columbia branch corporation government in March 2025, shortly before the club’s launch, list LoJacono as the “beneficial owner” of the company. The address provided in the documents corresponds to the location of the Executive Branch. Donald Trump Jr. and other reported owners are not named in the documents; Gilmore is listed in this document as the “organizer” of the company.
The documents show that LoJacono is considered the beneficial owner of a legal entity associated with the Executive Branch. But what exactly does this mean?