Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas company Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan to get sanctions lifted, by @ryangrim @AlexEmmons HT @dcpoll interc.pt/2F3fhsr
I wrote about Russian company Novatek in this mega-thread
sanctions imposed in 2014 significantly hurt financing for Novatek's Yamal LNG Arctic project
Elliot Broidy sure was busy in 2017 - pitching Russian company Novatek for $26 million to help lift sanctions against them, pitching a $75 million proposal to Jho Low, the Malaysian businessman at the center of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal
In 2017 Michael Cohen arranged a settlement for $1.6 million to quiet allegations of an affair involving Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy and a former Playboy model
Meanwhile the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has launched an investigation into a multi-million lobbying contract that appeared to be signed by Elliott Broidy in 2014, to provide "political advocacy" on behalf of now sanctioned Russian bank, VTB
Elliott Broidy's private security company, Circinus secured $200 million in deals with the UAE, and Broidy tried to intervene to influence Trump several times in 2017 on behalf of the UAE
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Elliott Broidy was also connected to CIM Group, the real estate company that invested with Trump & Kushner, and helped finance Trump Soho
This 2009 story describes how CIM Group invested $500,000 in Elliott Broidy's Markstone private equity fund in 2004, three years later Broidy voted on the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions board, to commit up to $30 million to CIM's Fund III
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Elliott Broidy also made a cameo appearance in a story about Rick Gates and a side business he had moonlighting as a movie producer, with some business partners accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars
Elliott Broidy is engaged in a lawsuit with another big GOP bundler Yuri Vanetik over a failed Russian oilfield investment
Angolan government officials paid $6 million to Elliott Broidy's company Circinus to gain access to Trump
Elliott Broidy has reportedly signed a $200 million agreement with Romarm, a state-owned defense company in Romania and his company Circinus, LLC
And back in 2009 Elliott Broidy pled guilty in a pension fund scandal and admitted bribing state pension officials with $1 million in trips, cash and gifts in return for $250 million for his investment fund
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