When Mr. Trump won, Mr. Broidy began aggressively promoting his connections to the new administration to politicians, business executives and governments around the world. And Mr. Broidy discussed the possibility of a visit to Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private resort in Florida, for an Angolan politician from whom he was seeking to collect additional payments. Mr. Broidy’s guilty plea relates to only his work on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests. Mr. Low had retained Mr. Broidy to use his connections to push to end the 1MDB investigation. Mr. Broidy admitted on Tuesday that he had asked Mr. Trump in June 2017 if he would play golf with Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2020 22:52 UTC