Chair of Trump’s inaugural committee arrested for conspiring to boost UAE
by AP in Los Angeles from World news | The Guardian on (#5MDQV)
Tom Barrack, 73, among three men charged in New York
Billionaire allegedly tried to influence US foreign policy
The chair of Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee was arrested on Tuesday on charges alleging he conspired to influence Trump's foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates and commit crimes striking at what prosecutors described as the very heart of our democracy".
Tom Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, California, was among three men charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent as they tried to influence foreign policy while Trump was running in 2016 and later while he was president.
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