“We wanted to create something new, engaging, and Trump-aligned,” Sachs said at the time. Proximity to Trumpworld didn’t come cheap; Although the club’s headquarters are located in the basement behind a shopping complex, the fee to join is reportedly as high as $500,000.
The initial wave of press for the MAGA hot spot identified Trump Jr. and his business associates Omed Malik, Chris Buskirk, and Zach and Alex Witkoff as co-owners of the club. A report by Mother Jones later revealed the involvement of David Sachs’ frequent business associate Glenn Gilmore, a San Francisco Bay Area real estate developer who is given a variety of titles on official documents, including co-owner, managing member, director, and chairman.
But according to corporate filings reviewed by WIRED, there is another key figure whose involvement has not been previously reported and whose connection to its more famous founders is unclear: Shawn Lozacono, a former policeman with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., who gained local notoriety for his role in a stop and search that resulted in a lawsuit.
According to the legal complaint, in 2017, after questioning a man named MB Cottingham for suspected open-container-law violations, Lozacono conducted a body search. A recording of the incident went viral on YouTube, sparking intense debate over aggressive policing tactics. “He put his finger in my crack,” Cottingham says in the video. “Stop fingering me, though, brother.” The following year, the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia sued Lozacono on Cottingham’s behalf, alleging that Lozacono “hooked his fingers between Mr. Cottingham’s buttocks and grabbed his genitals.” Cottingham agreed to settle his lawsuit with Lozacono and was paid an undisclosed amount in 2018 by the District of Columbia (which admitted no wrongdoing).
The MPD announced its intention to fire Lozacono after an internal affairs investigation concluded that the search of Cottingham was not an impeachable offense, but he had another search conducted the same day. In early 2019, Lozacono appealed his dismissal, arguing in a well-publicized hearing that he had conducted the search according to the method taught to him by fellow officers in the field. Initially, the dismissal was upheld. However, the police union’s collective bargaining agreement enabled Lozacono to further appeal to a third-party arbitrator, who ruled in Lozacono’s favor in November 2023.
However, rather than return to the police force, Lozacono has gone a different path. A LinkedIn account containing Lozacono’s name, likeness, and employment history lists his occupation as “Director of Security and Facility Management” at an unnamed private club in Washington, DC, from June 2025 to present. Official incorporation paperwork for the Executive Branch Limited Liability Company, filed with the Government of the District of Columbia’s Corporations Division in March 2025, shortly before the club’s launch, lists Lozacono as the “beneficial owner” of the business. The address listed on the paperwork matches the location of the executive branch. Donald Trump Jr. and other reported owners are not listed in the paperwork; Gilmore is listed as the company’s “organizer” in this document.
The paperwork indicates Lozacono is considered the beneficial owner of a legal entity tied to the executive branch. But what does it actually mean?
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