Robert Kraft helped broker Paul Weiss meeting with Trump
Reporting cited here
- reported
Axios, summarizing New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporting, said Robert Kraft contacted Trump on behalf of Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp and helped broker a meeting. Trump rescinded his executive order targeting the firm after Paul Weiss agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono work aligned with administration-supported causes. The reporting documents Kraft's access and intermediary role; it does not identify a personal financial benefit to Kraft.
Reported Kraft outreach and meeting brokerageKraft reportedly brokers a Trump meeting that ends pressure on Paul Weiss · Reported intermediary role; resulting agreement publicly announced
- documented
The Kraft record joins documented Trump access to separate legal and institutional outcomes. Kraft Group gave $1 million to Trump's 2017 inaugural committee; reporting later described Robert Kraft brokering direct access for Paul Weiss, and Trump appointed Kraft's wife Dana to the Kennedy Center board. Robert Kraft was charged with two misdemeanor solicitation counts; courts suppressed the surveillance and prosecutors dropped the charges, while four spa workers entered guilty pleas and one spent 60 days in custody. Kraft-controlled institutions separately accumulated NFL sanctions, environmental enforcement, a pollution class settlement and an app-privacy settlement. The record distinguishes personal charges, board service, entity sanctions, settlements and denied allegations; it does not convert company liability into a personal conviction or establish that Kraft's donation purchased Dana's appointment.
Reported intermediary role between Paul Weiss and TrumpKraft family — money, access, dropped charges and corporate sanctions · Public record assembled; legal states remain distinct