Elliott Broidy, who has close ties to the Republican Party and served in posh roles at the Republican National Committee, is under the microscope of the Department of Justice for his alleged attempts to sell his perceived influence over the United States government to foreign countries and individuals, including the Malaysian government and Chinese nationals.
Broidy, a venture capitalist-turned establishment Republican fundraiser who previously served as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, alleged took money from the Malaysian government to use his role on the Trump campaign, and access to prominent administration members surrounding President Donald Trump, to lobby the government to drop a probe into the Malaysian government’s corruption. He is also accused of selling his perceived influence over the United States government to aid the Chinese Communist Party by extraditing a Chinese national who is a dissident and critic of the CCP living in the United States.
According to the Washington Post:
He has been in discussions with the Justice Department and could ultimately reach a plea deal, they said.
The case has intensified in recent weeks, with prosecutors securing a guilty plea Monday from one of Broidy’s business associates, Nickie Mali Lum Davis, who admitted to taking part in what prosecutors have described in charging documents as a “back-channel lobbying campaign” to end the Malaysian corruption investigation and to return Chinese exile Guo Wengui to his home country.
Guo is a vocal online critic of the Chinese government who was once allied with that country’s government elite but is now wanted by authorities in Beijing on charges of fraud, blackmail and bribery. He has denied those charges and said they are politically motivated.
Since Broidy inserted himself into the internal machinations of the Republican Party by donating $300,000 to President George W. Bush after the September 11 terrorist attacks, then raising $1 million for President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign, he has served on the Board of Directors at the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Homeland Security Secretary in the Bush administration, and from 2006 to 2008, the finance chairman of the RNC…
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