This guy is busy!
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Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and, at the time, the Republican National Committee, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring to serve as an unregistered foreign agent.
He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and has agreed to forfeit $6.6 million he was paid for his work.
... The charge is related to his efforts to arrange meetings with top U.S. officials to help quash a U.S. investigation into the 1MDB Malaysian embezzlement scheme and to push for the deportation of Chinese dissident Guo Wengui.
Broidy...Broidy. That name rings a bell somehow...
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Broidy’s work to help politicians in other countries, including Romania, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, aren’t part of the indictment.
....including
taking $2.5M from the UAE’s Crown Prince to help “demonize” Qatar in the US, which found a sympathetic ear in this administration.
But no, that’s not it.
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[Previously], Broidy pleaded guilty in New York for his role in a pension pay-to-play scheme, admitting he had doled out nearly $1 million in favors to New York state pension officials in return for their $250 million investment in Markstone Capital, the Israel-focused investment fund he co-founded.
No, not that either.
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He resigned from his position [as vice chair of RNC fundraising] a year later, after reports surfaced that he had arranged a payment through fellow RNC fundraiser Michael Cohen of $1.6 million to a former Playboy Playmate he had impregnated after she said she was going to have an abortion.
Ah. Yeah, that’s it. Like I said, busy guy (and obviously, multiple-felon). One of Trump’s “
only the best people”.