Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy

[Leghorn21]

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar. Broidy helped raise millions for Trump in 2016.

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YEAH BABY

I been waiting for this to happen for what, 2 years now? FINALLY

[triron]

1. Won't Barr have something to say about this??

Don't get it.

[Leghorn21]

2. We'll have to wait and see, of course...but I'm hoping *George Nader's* ex-partner flips and sings

like a boid!! He was a busy busy guy back in the day (ie, 2017)

[Under The Radar]

3. He must have had a falling out with Trump for it to have gotten this far.

[triron]

5. I really don't get it.

[Under The Radar]

13. If he were in good graces with Trump

Then there would be no investigation and certainly would never go to court. Bill Barr would have cut off the investigation by now.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Well, doggies!

Time to get to the bottom of this cesspool.

[triron]

6. Is this SDNY?

[Leghorn21]

7. No, it's the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal grand jury in New York is investigating top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy, examining whether he used his position as vice chair of President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee to drum up business deals with foreign leaders, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and people familiar with the matter.

A wide-ranging subpoena the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn recently sent to Trump’s inaugural committee seeks records relating to 20 individuals and businesses. All have connections to Broidy, his investment and defense contracting firms, and foreign officials he pursued deals with — including the current president of Angola and two politicians in Romania.

https://apnews.com/5e69440f45024366891330a02c221279

[triron]

14. EDNY? Are they as independent as SDNY?

[Leghorn21]

8. Good article about Broidy from August 2019

.... During the week of festivities around the inauguration, Mr. Broidy met an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, George Nader, whom he saw as an entry point to potentially lucrative business opportunities in the Middle East.

For the next several months, the two men worked closely while Mr. Nader was paid millions of dollars by the United Arab Emirates. During that time, Mr. Broidy started a campaign against Qatar, a small country in the Middle East with American military facilities that has long been considered a strategic ally of the United States.


....In 2009, Mr. Broidy was shunned by Republicans after he admitted paying off New York State officials to win an investment from the state pension fund. But Mr. Broidy regained his status when he became a major fund-raiser for Mr. Trump’s campaign and his inauguration, securing him a second chance at being a Republican power broker.

.... Mr. Broidy became the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. He resigned last year after it was revealed that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million in hush money to a former Playboy model with whom he had an affair. Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, advised Mr. Broidy on the arrangement.


BUSY BUSY GUY, this ain’t half of what he’s been up to


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/us/politics/elliott-broidy-donald-trump.html

[CatWoman]

9. why is the Brooklyn office handling this?

[Leghorn21]

11. I don't know for sure, of course, but that office has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation

of LOSER45’s inauguration - New Jersey is also investigating the inauguration-

And I’m pretty sure some DOJ attorneys in California have been involved with this, but - honestly, I can’t keep up!!

[CatWoman]

12. ah ha..................

[Leghorn21]

10. Another Broidy tidbit:

Barrack and Elliot Broidy slipped major $$$ to Rick Gates in 2017:

Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2017 by a company headed by a leading Republican fundraiser and a firm headed by Donald Trump's inaugural committee chairman for help navigating the new administration, even as Gates was under criminal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, a new report says.

The New York Times article raises questions of why the two men, Elliott Broidy and Thomas Barrack, each of whom had close ties to the Republican Party and, in Barrack's case, to the president himself, were paying a lobbyist like Gates for guidance on how to deal with the new administration.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/broidy-barrack-paid-gates-for-advice-on-trump-administration-report.html