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634-5789

(4,175 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:20 PM Feb 2021

$900,000 Trump Inauguration Donor Gets 12 Years For Illegal Contributions, Tax Evasion

A California venture capitalist and top Donald Trump donor was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, hiding his role as a foreign agent and obstructing a federal investigation, officials reported.

Imaad Shah Zuberi, 50, was also ordered Thursday by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips to pay nearly $16 million in restitution and a criminal fine of $1.75 million.



Zuberi, who donated $900,000 to Trump’s inauguration, used his San Francisco-based venture capital firm, Avenue Ventures LLC, to lobby U.S. officials for years on behalf of foreign governments, including Turkey and Libya, according to court documents.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/imaad-shah-zuberi-trump-inauguration-12-years-prison_n_60308d80c5b66da5dba18ce9

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$900,000 Trump Inauguration Donor Gets 12 Years For Illegal Contributions, Tax Evasion (Original Post) 634-5789 Feb 2021 OP
So why is Trump who accepted the money not in jail? marlakay Feb 2021 #1
He didn't accept the money. His inauguration committee did. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #4
See... trump's collateral prison terms are unlikely to touch trump himself. LakeArenal Feb 2021 #2
Trump's kind of people!!! Yep, wonderful Trump supporters. The worst of the worst. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2021 #3
This dude gave money to everyone, including Democrats ... Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2021 #5
So glad he was sentenced after Biden's inauguration malaise Feb 2021 #6
Man WHITT Feb 2021 #7

TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
4. He didn't accept the money. His inauguration committee did.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:30 PM
Feb 2021

Trump knows how to game the system and create plausible deniability. That's largely why prosecuting him isn't the open and shut case many assume it to be.

I still think he gets nailed on something, maybe multiple somethings, but he knows how to limit his personal exposure. He learned from getting busted for housing violations in the 70s.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. This dude gave money to everyone, including Democrats ...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:31 PM
Feb 2021

Even our VP when she was in SF politics.

Why do you think he's in so much trouble while crooks like Broidy are walking around?

I mean, apart from the fact that he's not white?

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
7. Man
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:50 PM
Feb 2021

the feds are good at rolling out an example to scare the bejesus out of everybody else facing charges.


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