the former governor, who was charged in August, is alleged to have gone through the company, and Fullbrook was "chief global project officer" of Crosby's CT Group, and met her.
Julio Martin Herrera Velutini, a UK Conservative Party donor and the owner of the Puerto Rican bank Bancredito, is accused of bribing Puerto Rico’s governor at the time, Wanda Vazquez Garced.
Federal prosecutors claim Mr Herrera wanted Ms Vazquez, a Trump-supporting Republican, to sack her financial regulator, who was investigating his bank, and replace them with someone of his choosing.
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Mr Fullbrook, who masterminded Ms Truss’s leadership campaign, was interviewed by US authorities because of his work for, and role at, CT Group, an Australian-British lobbying firm founded by Lynton Crosby.
Court records in the United States allege that the alleged bribe was paid through CT Group. Mr Fullbrook was employed as the company’s chief global project officer, and prosecutors claim that he flew to Puerto Rico to meet with Vazquez Garced.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-mark-fullbrook-fbi-investigation-b2169756.htmlCrosby is the Australian/British version of Karl Rove in some ways.
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez is charged with bribery
Vázquez is accused of engaging in a bribery scheme from December 2019 through June 2020 — while she was governor — with several people, including a Venezuelan-Italian bank owner, a former FBI agent, a bank president and a political consultant.
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Vázquez's consultant, identified as John Blakeman, and the bank president, identified as Frances Díaz, have pleaded guilty to participating in the bribery scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Authorities said Herrera and Mark Rossini, the former FBI agent who provided consulting services to Herrera, allegedly promised to financially support Vázquez's 2020 campaign for governor in exchange for Vázquez dismissing the commissioner and appointing a new one of Herrera's choosing.
Authorities said Vázquez accepted the bribery offer and in February 2020 demanded the commissioner's resignation. She then was accused of appointing a former consultant for Herrera's bank as the new commissioner in May 2020. After the move, officials said Herrera and Rossini paid more than $300,000 to political consultants to support Vázquez's campaign.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115685539/former-puerto-rico-governor-wanda-vazquez-bribery-charge
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