From Reuters -
Jury weighs whether Trump ally Barrack was a foreign agent and lied about it
A U.S. jury began deliberations on Wednesday in the trial of Tom Barrack, the onetime private equity executive and fundraiser for former President Donald Trump, on charges that he acted as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates and lied to federal investigators.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn last year charged Barrack with using his influence with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and later his administration to push the UAE's policy interests without notifying the U.S. attorney general as required by law that he was acting as an agent for the Middle Eastern country.
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The OPEC member nation paid Barrack back in 2017 and 2018 by investing $374 million from its sovereign wealth funds with his company, then known as Colony Capital, prosecutors said.
Yet, in 2020, the Arizona Republican Party took money from Cheeto's ally...via Cheeto..
From a report filed by the AZGOP -
From a report filed by Cheeto's Victory joint fundraising committee -
This begs two questions:
1. Was the AZGOP on tumble dry or cool down when it accepted the money from Cheeto's ally?
2. And will they disavow and return that money upon his conviction?
