Closest
to Trump in Various Ways and Years
(Some loyalists say Trump didn't know)
Federal
authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last
summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and
Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by
ProPublica.
Agents were authorized to use the mega-donor’s hands and
face to unlock any phones that required fingerprint or facial scans.
The Washington Post originally reported
last August that the DOJ was investigating Broidy. The sealed warrant offers
new details of federal authorities’ investigation of allegations that Broidy
had attempted to cash in on his Trump White House connections in dealings with
foreign officials.
It also shows that the government took a more aggressive
approach with the Trump ally than was previously known, entering his office and
removing records — just as it did with Trump’s personal lawyer
Broidy served as a major Trump campaign fundraiser and
was the national deputy finance chair of the RNC until he resigned in April
2018, after it was revealed he had agreed to secretly pay off a former Playboy
model in exchange for her silence about their affair and aborted pregnancy.
The search
warrant cites three potential crimes that authorities are investigating: conspiracy, money laundering,
and violations of the law barring covert lobbying
on behalf of foreign officials.
To obtain a search warrant, authorities
have to convince a judge that there’s a probable cause they will find evidence
of those specific crimes.
The search
warrant also for the first time links Broidy to a globe-trotting Miami Beach
party promoter. The warrant, filed in July 2018, targeted Broidy’s office in
Los Angeles. The scope of what authorities were seeking was broad.
They planned
to seize any evidence related to a list of dozens of people, countries and
corporate entities, according to the warrant.
Among the
names on the list are Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign official who has
pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe; Colfax Law Office, the firm founded by
Robin Rosenzweig, Broidy’s wife; and several foreign countries
Spokespeople
for the DOJ and the FBI declined to comment for this story.
My 2 Cents: As the old expression says “birds of the feather flock together”
crooks, fraudsters, con men, money launders, and well, just run of the mill shysters
seem to be all around and associated with and flock to Trump.
Remember Trump told the public that would hire and
surround himself with the best people ever (3-minute video reminder here
FYI).
So, it seems the only ones Trump hires in fact are
like-minded crooks, fraudsters, and con men like himself?
This latest fund-raiser story (above) kind of once
again proves that this administration is by far, hands down the worse in
recorded American political history.
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