GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy charged in bid to lobby Trump administration to drop 1MDB caseElliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, was charged Thursday by federal authorities with violating a foreign lobbying law.
Prosecutors accused the venture capitalist Broidy of violating that law as part of a scheme to get the Justice Department to drop a major investigation and to have a dissident Chinese billionaire returned home from the United States.
The filing also said that the trio also met with a minister of the People's Republic of China in China and agreed that Broidy, assisted by the other two people, would lobby the Trump adminstration to return an unidentified Chinese national to China.
