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Businessman Charged With Foreign Lobbying Crimes Paid for Secret Trump White House Mission to Qatar
In June 2017, two former US officials, John Allen, a retired US Marine Corps four-star general, and Richard Olson, a retired State Department official and onetime ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, traveled to Doha, Qatar, on a secretive and important mission. They were dispatched by H.R. McMaster, then national security adviser for President Donald Trump, to meet with Qatars emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. This was part of a US effort to deescalate a regional crisis. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Qatars rivals, had blockaded Qatar and were threatening to invade the small natural gas-rich country, which houses a large American military base.
But the Trump White House did not rely on the US government to arrange and finance this trip. Instead, Allen asked Imaad Zuberi, an Asian American businessman and prolific campaign contributor with ties to US and foreign officials, for help, according to people with knowledge of the trip and emails reviewed by Mother Jones. Zuberi coordinated, joined, and paid for Allen and Olsons travel, the emails indicate. Thats notable because Zuberi later pleaded guilty to a slew of violations of foreign lobbying and campaign finance laws, along with tax evasion and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced in February to 12 years in federal prison...
Until 2016, Zuberis contributions went largely to Democrats. He was a bundler for Hillary Clinton in 2016. But after Donald Trumps victory, Zuberi reversed course, giving heavily to Trump and the GOP. His contributions included $900,000 to Trumps inauguration committee. That contribution became the subject of an investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who suspected, according to people with knowledge of the probe, that Zuberi made the contribution with money received from Qataris who were hoping to win influence with Trump. Zuberi eventually pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for what prosecutors said were efforts to cover up the origin of the money. (The Trump inauguration case was combined with the separate foreign lobbying and obstruction case last year.)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/businessman-charged-with-foreign-lobbying-crimes-paid-for-secret-trump-white-house-mission-to-qatar/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
So many crimes and scandals, so many cracks to fall through.