Elliott Broidy: Last News

direct to your inboxFormer chief strategist Steve Bannon has been pardoned by US President Donald Trump.Rapper Lil Wayne and Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy are also among the 143 people to benefit from a late flurry of clemency action.However Wikileaks founder Julian Assange did not make the list, despite his supporters hoping Mr Trump would act.His partner Stella Moris previously said: “I urge the (US) Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.”The pardons and commutations were announced after midnight on Wednesday in the final hours of Mr Trump’s White House term and just hours before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.A statement from the White House said:

Elliott Broidy, a prominent fundraiser for President Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged with conspiring to act as a foreign agent after prosecutors said he tried to interfere in an investigation into billions of dollars stolen from a Malaysian wealth fund.  Prosecutors allege that Broidy “facilitated and attempted to facilitate meetings and other efforts to influence officials at the highest level of the United States government, including the president and the attorney general" to drop the probe into 1MDB, an investment fund meant for Malaysia's economic development but which was allegedly utilized as a personal resource by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's associates.  During a May 2017 meeting in a Bangkok hotel suite,