“Mine is legitimate back channel.” Disgraced Republican financier Elliott Broidy is accused of secretly lobbying for China in a filing related to an expected guilty plea Monday by one of his partners in a complicated and, allegedly, super corrupt scheme. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Prosecutors say Broidy, Pras, the former Fugee, and Nickie Lum Davis, the ex of a JDate founder, took large sums of $ from Jho Low, a key figure in the Malaysian 1MDB embezzlement scheme, to lobby DOJ to stop investigating that case and extradite a billionaire Chinese dissident.
The Wall Street Journal reported a lot of this last week. wsj.com/articles/new-d…
We add new details on Broidy's reliance on Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's former partner who Broidy hired in 2017, to lobby the White House and Justice Department on 1MDB and extradicting Guo Wengui to China. motherjones.com/politics/2020/… 
Federal prosecutors appear to be using Gates and Nickie Lum Davis, Broidy's ex partner, to build a case that Broidy acted as a unregistered agent for China and Jho Low, the Malaysian businessman at the center of the 1MDB scandal. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
In a March 2018 interview by federal law enforcement officials, a summary of which Buzzfeed got through FOIA, Gates said that Broidy brought him in to help push DOJ to stop investigating 1MDB due to his "history and knowledge of how to deal with Trump." motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Disgraced former RNC Finance Chair and Trump pal Steve Wynn, who also pushed Trump to extradite Guo, Bannon, arrested on Guo's yacht, Jeff Sessions and John Kelly cameo here, with alleged bad deeds in LA, Hawaii, Shenzhen, China, Hong Kong, Bangkok and DC. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Broidy told associates he brought up 1MDB with Trump during a September 2017 meeting. And Trump was also reportedly was sold on deporting Guo, before some aides, who reportedly pointed out that Guo was a Mar a Lago member, changed his mind. wsj.com/articles/china…
A confusing aspect of this is why an alleged perpetrator of embezzlement from a Malaysian state fund, 1MDB, paid for lobbying not only to have DOJ's 1MDB probe shut down, but also for deportation of a critic China's gov. This wild 2017 story helps explain. wsj.com/articles/how-c…
Nickie Lum Davis, Broidy's partner in this alleged lobbying scheme is apparently cooperating with feds in a deal negotiated by her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, whose other clients include Kushner.
Interestingly, Lowell in 2018 represented Jamal Benomar, a ex senior UN official, who Broidy sued, alleging Benomar has long been a Qatari agent, and helped Qatar get press coverage of emails Broidy emails he says Qatari agents hacked. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Here is Guo Wengui's statement on the charge against Nickie Lum Davies and allegations against Broidy and Pras.
