Trump ex-fundraiser Elliot Broidy pleads guilty in 1MDB foreign lobbying case

ReutersPublished: Oct 21, 2020 12:11 AM | Updated: Oct 21, 2020 2:18 AM

A former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge that he illegally lobbied Trump to drop an investigation into a Malaysian embezzlement scandal.

At a hearing before Washington DC federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Elliott Broidy (above), who held finance posts in Trump's 2016 campaign and on his inaugural committee, pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he conspired to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara)...

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