A paid foreign lobbying campaign reached for Trump; Trump pardoned its operator

Date: 2021-01-20
Entry type: foreign-agent-clemency
Current status: Full presidential pardon granted after Broidy's guilty plea.

Elliott Broidy admitted taking millions to lobby Trump, the attorney general, and other senior officials over Malaysia's 1MDB forfeiture case and the removal of a Chinese dissident. The campaigns failed, but Broidy's FARA conspiracy conviction was wiped away by a Trump pardon.

Entities and roles

Elliott Broidyconvicted foreign-agent conspirator and pardon recipient
Donald J. Trumplobbying target and pardon grantor

Relationships in this file

Donald J. Trumpwas target of undisclosed paid lobbying byElliott Broidy
legalpoliticalconvicted1 sourceCited claim 1
Donald J. Trumpgranted full pardon toElliott Broidy
legalpoliticaldocumented2 sourcesCited claim 1

Recorded outcomes

otherNon-cash outcome
Full presidential pardon of Broidy's FARA-conspiracy conviction.

Claims and evidence

factdocumented
Trump granted Broidy a full presidential pardon on January 19, 2021.
- U.S. Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section: Report to Congress on the Activities and Operations of the Public Integrity Section for 2020Page 18, pardon status
- Trump White House Archives: Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of ClemencyEntry for Elliott Broidy
factconvicted
Broidy pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate FARA after admitting that he took $9 million from Jho Low and agreed to lobby Trump, the attorney general, and other senior officials to end 1MDB forfeiture matters and to remove a Chinese dissident; DOJ said both campaigns failed.
- U.S. Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section: Report to Congress on the Activities and Operations of the Public Integrity Section for 2020Pages 18–19, United States v. Elliott Broidy