Mike Huckabee Praised Qatar Without Revealing He Was Paid $50,000 by Qatar through lobbyist Joseph Allaham– Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Huckabee traveled to Doha, Qatar’s capital, at the same time as both Alan Dershowitz and Mort Klein, the longtime president of the Zionist Organization of America. Qatar had paid $1.45M to US lobbyists, Allaham and Muzin for ‘community engagement’ in the US and w/Trump Admin.
Dershowitz and Klein told Mother Jones that their trips included personal audiences with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and other senior officials, so that they could explain their situation with regards to the blockade of Qatar by Saudi, et. al.
Allaham reported that his work for Qatar included making a $100,000 donation in October (2017) to Our Soldiers Speak, a New York-based charity that organizes trips for officers in the IDF and the Israeli National Police to speak on college campuses in other countries.
The group received less than $600,000 in revenue in all of 2015. The contribution wa made a few days before group’s annual gala, where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the time the CIA director, was the keynote speaker.
Allaham and Muzin’s lobbying for Qatar has come under scrutiny, due to a lawsuit filed by Elliott Broidy alleging that his reputation was trashed after Qatar, w/help from Muzin, hired hackers to gain access to his email and leaked damaging messages.
Broidy’s lawyers subpoenaed Allaham's records of his communications related to Qatar and was deposed in June 2018 by Broidy’s attorneys.
After a judge compelled Allahabad to comply w/subpoena Allaham announced he would file retroactively as a lobbyist for Qatar, but that he was no longer working for the Arab state.
The same day, Muzin also said he was dropping his $300,000-a-month lobbying deal with Qatar.
The same day, Muzin also said he was dropping his $300,000-a-month lobbying deal with Qatar.
Like other foreign agents for Qatar, Muzin said he reported to Qatar’s US Embassy, but in subsequent filing to Justice Department, Allaham said he had reported directly to ....
the Qatari emir.
the Qatari emir.
