Major RNC, Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy set to plead guilty to acting as unregistered foreign ...

[ItsjustMe]

Major RNC, Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy set to plead guilty to acting as unregistered foreign agent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/elliott-broidy-plea/2020/10/20/c41ae12c-125a-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html

Major Republican Party and Trump donor Elliott Broidy is set to plead guilty Tuesday to acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Malaysian and Chinese interests, accepting millions of dollars to secretly lobby the Trump administration.

A plea hearing for Broidy, who helped raise millions for President Trump’s campaign before serving as the Republican National Committee’s national deputy finance chair, is scheduled for 2 p.m. before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in D.C.

Broidy, 64, was charged on Oct. 6 on one felony federal count of conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Prosecutors accuse him of secretly arranging to be paid a bounty of more than $80 million to end a U.S. investigation into a multibillion dollar embezzlement of a Malaysian state investment fund. Broidy also allegedly worked for a senior Chinese security minister to return outspoken Chinese exile Guo Wengui to his home country from the United States.

A plea is not official until it is accepted by a judge.

The allegations capped a years-long investigation that ultimately focused on Broidy, according to court records, accusing him of orchestrating with “back-channel, unregistered campaigns” to influence the administration, though their efforts were largely unsuccessful.

[empedocles]

1. Hopefully Broidy cooperated big

[IowaGuy]

2. Or did he hurry up and do this....

in the hopes of getting a pardon before it's too late? I could see this either way.

[cyclonefence]

3. Remember this guy allegedly took the hit for "David Dennison's" abortion payments

Here is some additional context that now seems especially noteworthy: Just two days before that meeting, on November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group, a California firm. On December 5, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. (Bechard fired Davidson shortly afterward, when she became convinced that Davidson was actually working in concert with Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, to protect Cohen’s client’s interests rather than hers.) That $200,000 was supposed to be the first of eight quarterly payments that “David Dennison” agreed to make to Bechard, in order to buy her silence about an affair and a subsequent abortion. All this was laid out in an NDA recovered from Michael Cohen’s office when it was raided last month.

Four days after after the raid on Cohen’s office, on April 13, The Wall Street Journal published a story claiming that this David Dennison, in the NDA signed by Shera Bechard, was none other than Elliott Broidy -- despite its being precisely the same pseudonym Trump had used in the Stormy Daniels NDA.

Much more:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/more-evidence-that-broidy-was-covering-for-trump-in-affair.html