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Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe

A sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica shows federal agents scoured Elliott Broidy’s office for documents related to China, Saudi Arabia &
a Miami Beach club promoter. propublica.org/article/federa…

August 2018: GOP fundraiser Broidy under investigation for alleged effort to sell government influence.
washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-f…

January 17, 2018:

📌Broidy tells Nader he received the first installment of $36 million from UAE
qz.com/1287027/a-time…

📌How Trump’s Swamp Works Now
The new Washington, D.C., is awash in foreign money and shady lobbyists — and Elliott Broidy fits right in
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

March 2018;

Trump ally reportedly in talks to earn $75 million if he could get the US probe into 1MDB dropped
cnbc.com/2018/03/03/1md…

Elliott Broidy: A history of bribery and pro-Israel advocacy
Broidy has reportedly pushed for pro-UAE changes to the Trump administration. How did the Israel advocate get involved?
aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/e…

📌📌Elliott Broidy, was the finance vice chairman of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and inauguration committees, was paid to lobby the Trump administration to try to end an investigation related to the embezzlement of billions of dollars from 1MDB

nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/…

📌Trump Ally Was in Talks to Earn Millions in Effort to End 1MDB Probe in U.S.

📌Emails indicate Republican donor and wife were negotiating fee if the Justice Department closed its investigation
wsj.com/articles/trump…

1MDB Scandal: How Broidy Helped UAE Meddle the Investigation
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📌📌How the 1MDB Scandal Led to Goldman’s First Criminal Charges
bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-…

📌The Story of Malaysia’s 1MDB, the Scandal That Shook the World of Finance
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📌Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Tried to Use GOP Contacts to Score “Billions” in Africa

📌Here’s another chapter in the Elliott Broidy saga.
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…

📌Emails reveal secret lobbying effort to alter U.S. policy in Middle East

📌Broidy and George Nader, pitched themselves to the crown princes as a backchannel to the WH, passing the princes' praise — and messaging — straight to the president's ears.
chicagotribune.com/news/nationwor…

📌Two Princes: How a secret meeting signaled the UAE’s pull in Trump’s D.C.

📌A meeting in the Seychelles between the Blackwater founder and a Putin ally has drawn scrutiny.

📌It also indicated another backchannel to the White House.
fastcompany.com/90233994/how-a…

📌GOP Mega-Fundraiser Elliott Broidy Will Stop Paying Hush Money to Playboy Model
thedailybeast.com/gop-mega-fundr…

📌The records, which list a number of “possible fraudulent and illegal financial transactions,” detail tens of thousands of dollars passing between Broidy & Cohen through a series of intermediaries between November 2017 and March 2018.
talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/unta…

Michael Cohen arranged another settlement to quiet allegations of an affair, this time for $1.6 million, involving Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy and a former Playboy model
wsj.com/articles/trump…

📌2016: Meet Elliott Broidy, Donald Trump’s New Shady Fundraiser

📌Venture capitalist avoided jail time by snitching on NYS officials who accepted his bribes
thewrap.com/meet-elliott-b…

📌2009: Elliott Broidy, a California venture capitalist, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he helped his company land a lucrative deal with New York’s public pension fund by giving nearly $1 million worth of illegal gifts to state officials.
nytimes.com/2009/12/04/nyr…

Prosecutors said the state invested $250M in Markstone after Mr. Broidy showered officials with gifts and favors, including trips, payouts to friends & relatives, & a secret investment in an obscure movie called “Chooch,” produced by an official’s brother.
nytimes.com/2009/12/04/nyr…

2016: Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s newly appointed chief fundraiser, is making his pitch to prominent hedge fund investors in his quest to raise $1 billion for the GOP presumptive nominee’s general election campaign.
thewrap.com/steven-mnuchin…

2016: W/ the help of his new finance team, MNUCHIN & BROIDY Trump is now tapping Hollywood for cash, looking to secure support from donors & special interest groups — including investor Thomas Barrack Jr., who’s hosting Trump’s first glitzy LA fundraiser 
thewrap.com/meet-elliott-b…

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