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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhasssup, Elliot Broidy? Yer good pal Najib Razak just got perp walked, oh dear (#1MDB scandal)
Trump ally reportedly in talks to earn $75 million if he could get the US probe into 1MDB dropped
Elliot Broidy, a republican donor, and his wife Robin Rosenzweig, discussed setting up a consulting contract with Jho Low, who is at the center of the 1MDB scandal.
The contract proposed a $75 million fee for Broidy and his wife if they could get the Justice Department to drop its probe into 1MDB.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed a cache of emails which revealed the connections.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/03/1mdb-trump-ally-elliot-broidy-tries-to-get-75-million-to-end-us-probe.html
oh someone just arrived at the Malaysian
Courthouse after being arrested👇🏻😂
Waves hiya Elliott Broidy your $75M cash cow is in custody
Whoopsie Daisy
Link to tweet
Ruh Roh Elliot...heres some advise when Mueller &
his team come knocking, dude just cooperate.
They already have Nader & he gave up the UAE, the Kingdom & Qataris
Oh so swampy Elliot
Link to tweet
...I am very new to details of this #1MDB scandal, which my favorite tweeters have covered endlessly...entire history of the thing is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/world/asia/malaysia-najib-razak-fall.html
calimary
(90,794 posts)Control-Z
(15,686 posts)Sounds like a movie info site.
Leghorn21
(14,113 posts)mega-proportions in Maylasia involving billions of dollars that their prime minister stole from them.
Been hearing about it forever, Im finally catching up a bit...
Also, tRump loooves that (ex, and now jailed) prime minister. OF COURSE.
lapfog_1
(31,980 posts)and the fund is in the hole $9B.
And guess which US Bank is involved for fees reportedly in the $100s of Millions.
If you guessed Goldman Sachs... give yourself a tootsie roll.
WhiteTara
(31,279 posts)Surprised? No? I didn't think so. Of course, it's all tied into the crooks that trump knows and uses. Hell, trump may have been supposed to get some of that money himself. The wife wss quite the dresser--she rivals Emelda Marcos.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,796 posts)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_scandal
This is international graft and corruption on steroids......
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)
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