A national GOP group has apparently not publicly disclosed funds raised through a gala it hosted to celebrate President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's inauguration in early 2017, according to a new report.

The Palm Beach Post reported Friday that the National Committee of Asian American Republicans has not disclosed funds raised at a gala the night before Trump's inauguration.

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More than 900 people paid at least $75 per ticket to attend the Asian Pacific American Presidential Inaugural Gala, but that money was not reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), as political committees are required to do, the newspaper reported.

An FEC spokesman pointed The Hill to information given to The Palm Beach Post, saying that the committee did not report any contributions the month of the event or the month before it.

FEC spokesman Myles Martin told the Post that political committees do not always need to record contributions in their own reports and that committees are permitted to gather money for other groups, but that this would require a disclaimer, which was reportedly not listed on the event's website, invitation or ticketing page.

“If they were collecting money on behalf of any committee, it should be accounted for,” Martin said.

Failure to report contributions normally results in a fine, the paper noted.

The group's executive director, Zhonggang "Cliff" Li, told The Hill Friday that the event was intended to be a celebration, not a fundraising event, and that money collected was intended to set off the high cost of the venue, The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.

"It's not a fundraising event, it's a celebration event the night before the inauguration, " he said, adding that the organization was trying to "break even" on the event.

"No money was raised," he said, "It didn't mean to do that."

Li told the Post that he knows what happened to the money “but I don’t want to tell you." He told The Hill that he did not want to tell the Post about the money because he did not like the newspaper's past coverage of the Asian conservative community.

Checks for the event were made out to the committee, lobbyist Puneet Ahluwalia, who chaired the gala's fundraising subcommittee, told the newspaper.

“I wasn’t privy to who took the money or who wrote the checks,” he said. “All of the money that was pledged by the big donors, by the tickets, had to go into some box. That box was the National Committee of Asian American Republicans.”

Li told The Hill that the checks were mailed to the committee's office, but they were not made out to the organization.

The event's description on ticketing website Eventbrite noted that the organization is legally required to report information on anyone who contributes more than $200. A Trump campaign advisory board co-hosted the event, but the Post noted it didn't collect money.

"Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to obtain and report the name, mailing address, occupation and employer for each individual who contributes an aggregate of more than $200 per election," the event description said.

Li told the paper that the organization amassed money, but that it was not given to the registered committee. He declined to explain further.

“The money went to the right account legally, but I just don’t have to tell you where that is,” he told the Post.

Former Trump campaign aide Jason Osborne, who later became a lobbyist, was reportedly one of the inauguration event's chief organizers. The Post said that he did not respond to requests for comment.

The newspaper also said that the treasurer for the National Committee of Asian American Republicans did not respond to a phone call.

The group previously issued a statement accusing the Post of "demonizing Asian American conservatives" based on a prior article published earlier this year.

—Updated at 6:18 p.m.