In October 2020, Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent working for Chinese and Malaysian interests.
43 Facts About Elliott Broidy
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Elliott Broidy sought to lobby the highest levels of the US Government to deport a dissident of the People's Republic of China living in the United States, and tried to arrange meetings for a PRC Minister with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and other high-level officials during the PRC Minister's visit to the United States, all while concealing the foreign principals he represented.
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Elliott Broidy had been charged as part of a federal probe into efforts to influence the Trump administration to stop investigations about a 1MDB Malaysian state fund fraud.
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On January 20,2021, Elliott Broidy was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
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Elliott Broidy was a Certified Public Accountant from 1982 to 1993.
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Elliott Broidy began his career in finance at Arthur Andersen in the tax department.
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Elliott Broidy was the managing director at Bell Enterprises from 1982 to 1991.
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Elliott Broidy met with Benjamin Netanyahu, who was finance minister of Israel at the time.
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Elliott Broidy raised $800 million for Markstone primarily with close cooperation of elected managers of government workers' pension funds in California, New York, and other states, as well as the city of Los Angeles which he was on the board of trustees for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension fund.
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Elliott Broidy served as chairman of ESI Holdings, an event management firm.
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Elliott Broidy served as commissioner and chairman of the Alternative Investment Committee of the Los Angeles City Fire and Police Pension Fund from 2002 to 2009.
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Elliott Broidy led the fund raising for Republicans from 2005 to 2008 as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee including the 2008 elections involving John McCain and Sarah Palin and, for the 2016 elections, he was a top fund raiser for Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump.
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In 2014, Elliott Broidy purchased the Virginia-based private security company Circinus LLC, which provided services to the United States and other governments.
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In October 2017, in a private meeting with president Donald Trump, Elliott Broidy praised a paramilitary force his company Circinus was creating for the United Arab Emirates.
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Elliott Broidy urged the president to meet with the UAE's military commander Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, to support the UAE's hawkish policies in the Middle East, and to fire United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Elliott Broidy was harshly critical of Qatar, an American ally at odds with the UAE.
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In 2002, Elliott Broidy founded Markstone Capital Partners, a private equity firm which invested in companies in Israel.
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Elliott Broidy had provided $1 million in illegal gifts to New York State pension authorities.
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In 2016, Elliott Broidy served as a vice chairman of the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee between the Donald Trump campaign and the RNC.
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Elliott Broidy obtained defense contracts worth more than $200 million from the United Arab Emirates.
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Elliott Broidy offered inauguration tickets to Denis Sassou-Nguesso, a Congolese strongman whose lavish lifestyle was paid by public funds.
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Elliott Broidy arranged for an Angolan politician Joao Lourenco to meet with Republican senators and offered him a trip to Mar-A-Lago.
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Elliott Broidy was to receive five payments of $2.5 million each through the British Virgin Islands firm with a Dubai address, Quillas Equities SA, which has Yuri Soloviev as a large shareholder according to the Panama Papers.
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Elliott Broidy resigned his post at the RNC the same day the article appeared.
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Some columnists have since speculated that Donald Trump was really the person who had the affair with Bechard, with Elliott Broidy agreeing to provide cover for Trump.
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Elliott Broidy sought to leverage his connections for another case, Guo's extradition.
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Consequently, Elliott Broidy approached casino tycoon Steve Wynn for assistance due to his close ties with President Trump.
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Elliott Broidy testified that he heard Trump affirming the ongoing process.
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In March 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Elliott Broidy had been in negotiations to earn tens of millions of dollars by lobbying the US Justice Department to drop its investigation into a multibillion-dollar graft, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal involving a Malaysian state investment fund, 1MDB, according to emails reviewed by the Journal.
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Elliott Broidy prepared talking points for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to use with President Trump during his 2017 visit to Washington, DC This included playing up Malaysia's relationship with the US in fighting North Korea, and arguing against pursuing legal action against 1MDB.
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On October 8,2020, federal prosecutors announced that they were charging Elliott Broidy with conspiring to act as a foreign agent as he lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese government interests, a felony.
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On October 20,2020 Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty to these charges.
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The felony to which Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty carries a prison sentence of up to five years.
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On January 19,2021 Broidy was granted a full pardon by President Donald J Trump.
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Elliott Broidy provided a testimony to federal jurors in April 2023, detailing his collaboration with Grammy-winning artist Pras Michel to obtain payments from Malaysian businessman Jho Low, aiming to persuade the Trump administration to halt the 1MDB investigation.
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Elliott Broidy described the 2017 formation of a team, led by Michel, seeking to convince the US Justice Department to abandon its civil inquiry into Low's alleged involvement in embezzling funds from the Malaysian development fund 1MDB.
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Elliott Broidy allocated a portion to Hawaii businesswoman, Nickie Lum Davis, who admitted guilt in the conspiracy.
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Elliott Broidy identified Davis as the intermediary connecting him, Michel, and Low, stating they met in Bangkok to discuss the 1MDB case and potential remuneration.
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Elliott Broidy disclosed his unsuccessful attempt to arrange a golf game between President Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, leading to pressure from Davis.
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Elliott Broidy served on the board of governors and the endowment committee of Hebrew Union College and the board of trustees of the Hillel Foundation, as well as the Center for Investment Studies at the Marshall School of Business at his alma mater, the University of Southern California.
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Elliott Broidy served on the board of governors of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Elliott Broidy was the 2008 recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States for his Jewish philanthropy.
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Elliott Broidy is married to Robin Rosenzweig, a former senior executive of 20th Century Fox.