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Elliott Broidy

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Relationship to TrumpTrump fundraiser and party finance officialpolitical / 2 sources
Full presidential pardon granted by Trumplegal / 2021-01-19

Exact relationships

  1. was target of undisclosed paid lobbying bylegalpoliticalconvicted · 1 file · 1 source reference
  2. Pardoned lobbyist whose paid campaign targeted Trump officialsbusinesslegalpoliticalconvicted · 1 file · 2 source references
  3. Trump pardon recipientlegalpoliticaldocumented · 1 file · 2 source references
  4. granted full pardon tolegalpoliticaldocumented · 1 file · 2 source references

Money, power & fallout

  1. Broidy became a Trump fundraiser and national RNC deputy finance chairHistorical fundraising role; Broidy resigned from the RNC post in April 2018Trump fundraiser and party finance official · documented · 2 sources
  2. Broidy admitted a $9 million foreign lobbying campaign aimed at Trump administration actionGuilty plea followed by Trump pardonPardoned lobbyist whose paid campaign targeted Trump officials · convicted · 2 sources
    1. paymentPayment to Broidy$9 million
      Paid by / source
      Jho Low
      Received by
      Elliott Broidy
      realized · 2020-10-20 · observedPopulation Payment from Jho Low for the admitted lobbying effort described by DOJPeriod 2017-03-01 to 2018-01-31Basis Exact payment amount admitted in the plea; period bounded to DOJ's March 2017 through January 2018 scheme window.Limits DOJ did not publish exact payment dates in this summary, and the amount is compensation to Broidy—not a payment to Trump or proof that the campaigns succeeded.Open cited evidence
  3. Trump granted Elliott Broidy a full pardonFull pardon grantedTrump pardon recipient · documented · 2 sources
  4. A paid foreign lobbying campaign reached for Trump; Trump pardoned its operatorFull presidential pardon granted after Broidy's guilty plea.was target of undisclosed paid lobbying by · granted full pardon to · convicted · documented · 2 sources

    otherFull presidential pardon of Broidy's FARA-conspiracy conviction.

Source: Elliott Broidy · Rights/use: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; source-site license reviewed by Wikimedia Commons on 2026-04-15; derivative remains CC BY-SA 4.0 · Modified: cropped and resized