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Zuberi backdated a $50,000 refund during the inaugural-donation investigation

Date
2019-02-25
Entry type
campaign-finance-obstruction
Current status
Conduct included in guilty plea and sentence
Last reviewed
2026-09-03

The convicted obstruction conduct is separate from the underlying donor relationship; the canonical $900,000 observation is not duplicated.

Entities and roles

Relationships in this file

  1. Donald J. TrumpTrump inaugural donor and later commutation recipientImaad Zuberi

Money trail

  1. paymentZuberi refund later backdated during investigation$50,000
    Paid by / source
    Imaad Zuberi
    Received by
    Unnamed inaugural-donation contributor
    realized · 2019-02-25 · observedPopulation Refund Zuberi gave one contributor on February 25, 2019 and backdated to February 1Period 2019-02-25 to 2019-02-25Basis Refund amount and actual transfer date admitted in the criminal information's obstruction allegations incorporated into Zuberi's guilty plea.Limits The contributor is unnamed in the cited claim; the false February 1 date is not used as the transaction date.Open cited evidence

Claims and evidence

  1. factconvicted

    Before Donald Trump commuted his sentence, Imaad Zuberi admitted obstruction arising from the investigation of the $900,000 inaugural-committee donation: after learning of the federal investigation, Zuberi met one contributor on February 25, 2019, refunded $50,000, and backdated the check to February 1 to make the refund appear earlier.