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WASHINGTON (Reuters<\/a>) – A former fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump, Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge that he illegally lobbied Trump to drop an investigation into a Malaysian embezzlement scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a hearing before Washington D.C. federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Mr. Broidy, who held finance posts in Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign and on his inaugural committee, pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he conspired to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors alleged that Broidy received millions of dollars in payments from an unnamed foreign national to try to arrange the end of a U.S. investigation into billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB, a Malaysian government investment fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FARA requires people who lobby the U.S. government for foreign entities to register with the Justice Department, which Broidy admitted he had not done. He faces a maximum prison sentence of five years and agreed to forfeit $6.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Documents seen by Reuters show that Broidy also sought unsuccessfully to facilitate the U.S. extradition to China of multimillionaire Guo Wengui, who has engaged in U.S.- based anti-China political activities with former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon presently faces unrelated federal charges that allege that he and three others defrauded donors to a campaign to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge did not immediately impose a sentence on Broidy and set a hearing for February. She said with court approval, Broidy could travel outside the United States, and that he could travel inside the country with approval of pre-trial services officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysian and U.S. authorities estimate $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB in an elaborate scheme that spanned the globe and implicated high-level officials in the fund, former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, executives at U.S. bank Goldman Sachs and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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