Lowell is known in Washington as a star trial lawyer, and represents an associate of Broidy's who also pleaded guilty to a foreign lobbying charge in August.
Broidy graduated from USC where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance. He was a Certified Public Accountant from 1982 to 1993. Broidy began his career in finance at Arthur Andersen in the tax department. One of his clients, Glen Bell, the founder of Taco Bell, hired him to manage his personal investments.
Beginning in March 2018, Broidy became embroiled in a criminal investigation launched by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine for Broidy's June 12, 2014, deal to provide political support for VTB Bank and Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU), which acts as a financial advisor to President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
As part of his plea deal, Broidy agreed to forfeit $6.6 million to the federal government. The felony to which Broidy pleaded guilty carries a prison sentence of up to five years. On January 19, 2021 Broidy was granted a full pardon by President Donald J. Trump. On June 11, 2021, the U. S. Department of Justice charged associates of Mr. Broidy.
Elliott Broidy — a former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee who pleaded guilty last year to charges that he illegally lobbied the US on behalf of a Malaysian businessman and pushed the Trump administration to extradite a Chinese dissident — now stands accused of illegally lobbying federal officials to take “anti-Qatari” positions and of “orchestrating a disinformation campaign” against the country, according to the suit filed by a Qatari luxury travel company.
Elliott Broidy was paid millions of dollars by the UAE to orchestrate a smear campaign against Qatar.
Elliott Broidy and George Nader are accused of hiring internet trolls and influencers as part of their smear campaign against Qatar.
Elliott Broidy files new lawsuit alleging vast Qatari conspiracy https://t.co/BAOBWmCBec pic.twitter.com/hixEv6B3Ff
Robin Rosenzweig is a licensed attorney and has operations on both the east and west coasts.
Robin Rosenzweig put her law degree to use in the entertainment industry in southern California for a large portion of her professional career. According to her Linkedin profile, Rosenzweig worked for Cannon Films as Corporate counsel for nearly three years beginning in 1985.
Robin Rosenzweig and Elliott Broidy tied the knot in 1992. She shared the above photo from the night of their rehearsal dinner in November of 1992.
Broidy pleaded guilty this fall to a foreign lobbying conspiracy, in which he took part in an effort to convince the Trump administration to stop a fraud investigation of a Malaysian investment fund and advocated for the removal of a Chinese billionaire in the US. He also agreed to cooperate, according to his plea deal.
(CNN) The Justice Department bribery-for-a-presidential-pardon investigation, which became public this week, involves the past efforts of well-connected Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Elliott Broidy in the early days of the Trump White House, sources tell CNN.
Presidential pardon investigation involves Kushner lawyer and GOP lobbyist, sources say. (CNN) The Justice Department bribery-for-a-presidential-pardon investigation, which became public this week, involves the past efforts of well-connected Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Elliott Broidy in the early days ...
Reid Weingarten, a lawyer for Lowell, told CNN that he spoke to the Justice Department this week after the opinion was unsealed, and was left with the impression that "no one had the slightest problem with [Lowell's] conduct." Lowell had acted simply as a lawyer for Baras, Weingarten said, adding that no bribe was paid, he said. Lowell had represented Baras in his effort to secure a pardon -- which normally includes submitting an application to the administration.
Representatives of Broidy, Lowell and Baras say they believe they aren't under investigation.
Elliott Broidy is an American venture capitalist, who had strong ties with Trump’s 2016 camping, acting as vice chairman of the Trump Victory Committee and then vice-chairman of his Presidential Inauguration Committee.
Broidy reportedly admitted to accepting $9 million from a Malaysian financier, to push the Trump administration for the extradition of a Chinese dissident and to drop a case related to an embezzlement scheme.
Broidy first came to the attention of law enforcement, not to mention the nation, for paying a $1 million bribe to New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and his aides, in return for Hevesi’s commitment to place $250 million of New York’s pension fund with Broidy’s investment firm in 2009. News of this blatant kickback scheme was shocking at the time and sent Alan Hevesi straight to jail, where he would spend the next 20 months. Broidy was also convicted, but he was able to save himself by pleading guilty, paying an $18 million fine, and giving crucial evidence against his co-conspirators.
Twenty-nine-year-old detective Bernie Crooke was the youngest member of the Homicide Squad and had been on the job for only eighteen months. Even so, he had already seen a number of murdered women, “but none who looked beautiful when dead,” he recalled years later upon first seeing the dead Mary Meyer. 15
Throughout all of his influence-peddling Broidy never registered as “an agent of foreign principals” as required by law. Nor did he inform any of the White House principals how much he stood to gain from the actions they might take on his recommendations. The stakes were, in fact, enormous. Had Broidy proved successful in his various overseas machinations, he could have grossed close to $100 million. And that was only the appetizer.
Broidy was like Zelig — a shadow in the background, everywhere you looked. When not lobbying, he was giving out advice. Jeff Sessions asked him for recommendations to staff the Justice Department, and Trump sought his opinion of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (Broidy said he should be fired). He attended the June 2017 wedding of a friend, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin.
And there are others: Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Nader, Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Erik Prince, Elliott Broidy … the list goes on and on. There are so many other shady characters in Trump’s extended crime family about whom we will likely hear more in years to come. One wishes Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino were all young enough to play some of them in a new mob movie.
In order to get Alan Hevesi to agree to take on his investment firm as part of the New York state pension scandal, Broidy not only paid off Hevesi directly but also paid money to others, all the better to ingratiate himself, including, as Campos pointed out, paying off the girlfriend of one of the officials he was bribing.
Elliott Broidy, left, Shera Bechard and Donald Trump. Broidy, a former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Bechard, a Playboy Playmate, had signed an agreement in 2017, which included a nondisclosure clause.
Broidy has stopped payments to Bechard, claiming that the non-disclosure agreement that was part of their agreement had been violated. Broidy’s attorneys told the Wall Street Journal that Davidson violated the agreement by telling Avenatti about it.
Campos speculated that two Oval Office meetings Broidy had with Trump in 2017 were Trump’s way of repaying the venture capitalist for handling the Bechard matter. The involvement of Michael Cohen, who at the time was Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, who represented Broidy in the negotiations with Bechard, is what led some to believe ...
Advertisement. The speculation that Broidy, a major GOP donor, might have covered up for Trump’s affair escalated in April after Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film actress and director Stormy Daniels, suggested in an interview on MSNBC ’s “Morning Joe” that Bechard could have had the affair with someone else (many assumed he meant Trump) ...
Wedge told the outlet that Davidson, not Bechard, never breached the agreement.
The affair led to a pregnancy, and Bechard had an abortion. The news of the affair and settlement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in April. Broidy resigned his post at the RNC after the article was published. Bechard hired controversial attorney Keith Davidson to represent her in a claim against Broidy.
Broidy was charged earlier this month with conspiracy for failing to register and disclose his role in a lobbying effort aimed at stopping a criminal investigation into massive fraud at a Malaysian investment fund and advocating for the removal of a Chinese billionaire living in the US.
The judge set Broidy's sentencing for February 12. Prosecutors alleged in court filings that Broidy and his cohorts' goal was to "make millions of dollars by leveraging Broidy's access to and perceived influence with the President and his administration.".
In addition, prosecutors said Broidy drafted a memo to the US attorney general to try seek the removal of the Chinese billionaire living in the US. That lobbying effort was also not successful.
Broidy, who pleaded guilty in a cooperation deal with prosecutors, will forfeit $6.6 million. According to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, who read portions of the plea agreement during a virtual hearing, prosecutors will not bring charges against Broidy in connection with a separate Middle East ...
Broidy has worked for the United Arab Emirates and has been an outspoken critic of Qatar. Broidy faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison, but will likely face a lower term of imprisonment when he is sentenced. The judge set Broidy's sentencing for February 12.
(CNN) Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser involved in President Donald Trump's 2016 inaugural committee, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy relating to a secret lobbying campaign to influence the Trump administration on behalf of a foreign billionaire in exchange for millions of dollars.
No golf game ever occurred but the prime minister did meet with Trump, the prosecutor said. Broidy also met with Trump ...