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Elliott
B. Broidy (born 1956/1957) is an American venture
capitalist, owner of a global security company, and major Republican fundraiser.
From 2005 to 2008 he was finance chairman of the
Republican National Committee (RNC). From 2017 to April 2018 he was a deputy
finance chairman of the RNC, resigning from that role after the
Wall Street Journal reported that he had been a party to a
non-disclosure agreement with former Playboy Playmate
Shera Bechard, under which he paid $1.6 million for her silence about a
sexual affair between them.
In 2016 Broidy served as a vice chairman of the
Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee between the
Donald Trump campaign and the RNC.[19]
In addition, he served as a vice chairman of the Presidential Inaugural
Committee.[20]
In April 2017 Broidy was named a national deputy finance chairmen of the RNC.[21]
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In October 2017 in a private meeting with U.S. president
Donald
Trump, Broidy praised a
paramilitary force his company Circinus was creating for the UAE. He urged
the president to meet with the UAE's military commander Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, to support the UAE's hawkish policies in the
Middle
East, and to fire U.S. Secretary of State
Rex
Tillerson. He was also harshly critical of
Qatar, an
American ally at odds with the UAE.[13][22]
In March 2018,
The Wall Street Journal reported that Broidy had been in negotiations to
earn tens of millions of dollars by lobbying the U.S. Justice Department to drop
its investigation into a multibillion-dollar
graft scandal involving a Malaysian state investment fund,
1MDB, according to emails reviewed by the Journal. One email showed a
proposal that would have given Broidy and his wife $75 million if they got the
Justice Department to drop its probe into 1MDB. Broidy also prepared talking
points for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to tell Trump during his 2017
visit to Washington, DC. This included playing up Malaysia's relationship with
the U.S. in fighting North Korea and arguing against pursuing legal action
against 1MDB.[32][33]
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In November 2018, the New York Times reported that Federal prosecutors
accused him of involvement in a scheme to launder millions of dollars into the
United States to help Malaysian financier
Jho Low end
a Justice Department investigation into the embezzlement of billions of dollars
from 1MDB.[34]
After Trump won the election, Broidy
used his connections to the president to recruit international clients for his
security business Circinus, promising that he could arrange meetings with Trump
or other high government officials. He obtained defense contracts worth more
than $200 million from the United Arab Emirates. Many of his clients had
unsavory records.[36]
He offered inauguration tickets to
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, a Congolese strongman whose lavish lifestyle was paid
by public funds. He arranged for an Angolan politician to meet with Republican
senators and offered him a trip to Mar-A-Lago.
Liviu Dragnea, a Romanian parliamentarian facing corruption charges, got to
attend an inauguration party and pose for pictures with the president.[36]
He reportedly offered to sell social media surveillance software, which can be
used to identify political adversaries online, to the governments of
Cyprus,
Romania,
Tunisia, and
the
United Arab Emirates.[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy
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April 13: On April 13, 2018,
The Wall Street Journal reported that [Elliott] Broidy had a sexual
relationship with
Playboy Playmate
Shera Bechard, resulting in a pregnancy in late 2017.[39][40]
The model later had an abortion. Donald Trump’s personal lawyer
Michael Cohen negotiated for Broidy to pay $1.6 million for the woman's
silence. The settlement was falsely characterized at the time as a personal
injury settlement.[41][42]
In response to the Journal article, Broidy issued a statement
acknowledging that he had had a "consensual relationship with a Playboy
Playmate", that Cohen had contacted him after being approached by the woman's
attorney,
Keith M. Davidson, and that Broidy had then hired Cohen to work out a
non-disclosure agreement.[43]
Broidy resigned his post at the RNC the same day the article appeared.[44]
A few days later Cohen confirmed in court that Broidy was one of the three
clients he had given legal advice to in the previous year.[45]
Some columnists have since speculated that
Donald
Trump was really the person who had the affair with Bechard.[46][47][48]
Broidy's lawyer, Chris Clark, stated that Broidy will withhold forthcoming
payments to Bechard due to an alleged breach of the non-disclosure agreement on
her part.[49]
On July 6, 2018, Bechard filed a lawsuit against Broidy and the attorney
Michael Avenatti, in relation to the cessation of the settlement payments.[50][51][52]
Bechard has alleged in a complaint that Broidy was physically, sexually, and
emotionally abusive of her, and that he exposed her to
herpes.[53][54]
Broidy has denied the allegations.[54]
On September 7, 2018, California Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White granted
Broidy’s request to strike allegations from the case going forward that were not
relevant to the breach-of-contract dispute.[55]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy
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July 2:
Broidy Ending Playmate’s Hush Payments Doesn’t Add Up — Unless He’s Covering for
Trump [?]
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/broidy-ends-hush-payments-trump-cover-up.html
July 6:
Shera Bechard just sued Trump donor Elliott Broidy over a scuttled hush money
deal
Bechard also named Michael Avenatti and her own former lawyer, Keith Davidson,
in the suit.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/6/17542222/shera-bechard-broidy-trump-lawsuit-pregnancy
July 9:
Playmate Who Aborted Elliott Broidy’s Love Child Makes ‘Troublesome Claims’ in
New Lawsuit
Shera Bechard is suing the Republican donor after he quit paying her hush money
to cover up their affair.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/playmate-shera-bechard-who-aborted-elliott-broidys-love-child-makes-troublesome-claims-in-new-lawsuit
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July 10:
Playboy model Shera Bechard ordered to give Michael Avenatti sealed suit
involving hush deal with GOP donor Elliott Broidy
A Los Angeles judge declined to overturn a 20-day sealing order of Playboy model
Shera Bechard’s complaint against GOP donor Elliott Broidy Tuesday but ordered
the defendants, including Michael Avenatti, receive immediate, unredacted
copies.
Bechard filed the complaint under seal just days after Broidy’s reported
decision to halt his $200,000 installment payments on their privacy pact.
A source told the Daily News that Bechard named Avenatti as a co-defendant
because he posted a Twitter message April 12 that described her confidential
deal with Broidy. A day later, the Wall Street Journal confirmed the hush-money
deal in a blockbuster story.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-avenatti-demands-shera-bechard-elliott-broidy-sealed-complaint-20180710-story.html
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July 12:
Playmate Who Had Affair With Major GOP Fundraiser Has Never Met Trump, Sources
Say
Contrary to speculation about a secret affair with Trump, two sources say Shera
Bechard has had no contact with the president.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shera-bechard-playmate-donald-trump-elliott-broidy_us_5b45635fe4b048036ea39bfd
July 13:
Did Elliott Broidy really take the fall for Donald Trump? Here’s some new
evidence.
In 2016, [a PI] was hired to trail Broidy and surveil the businessman. His
customer was a Broidy associate to whom Broidy owed money. The investigator
spent several months on this case, looking to document Broidy’s lifestyle and
spending patterns. He tells me that his big discovery was that Broidy was mostly
a homebody who spent much of his time either at his office or his house.
But there was one other address Broidy visited regularly: an apartment building
in Beverly Hills, where he seemed to have a girlfriend. The PI says he never got
the name of the apparent gal pal ... [however a list of tenants] included Shera
Bechard, the Playmate in the Broidy case.
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... it does appear Broidy had a preexisting relationship with Bechard over
a year before the $1.6 million settlement was reached. It’s possible Trump and
Broidy each had an affair with her, although this piece of information does
bolster Broidy’s account.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/yet-another-twist-in-the-crazy-tale-of-a-gop-fundraisers-affair-with-a-playmate/
July 31:
Elliott Broidy’s Mistress: I Was Pregnant When My Lawyer ‘Recruited’ Michael
Cohen to ‘Solve’ Problem
Shera Bechard had an abortion after her attorney went to Trump’s fixer to
arrange a hush-money deal to cover up the affair.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elliott-broidys-mistress-i-was-pregnant-when-my-lawyer-recruited-michael-cohen-to-solve-problem
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July 31:
Ex-Playboy Model Wants Additional $200K From Top Trump Fundraiser
Shera Bechard filed a lawsuit under seal earlier this month against the
fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, her former attorney Keith Davidson, and Michael
Avenatti, the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Shera-Bechard-Wants-200K-From-GOP-Donor-489694111.html
August 1:
Playboy model who signed hush deal with GOP fundraiser says Cohen 'recruited' to
fix problem, lawsuit says
A former Playboy model who claims to have had an affair and became pregnant by a
top fundraiser for President Donald
Trump claims the president's former personal attorney,
Michael Cohen, was "recruited"
in the case to act as a fixer.
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The details of Shera Bechard's alleged affair with GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy
and the hush agreement she says she signed to keep the affair private were made
public Tuesday after a federal judge unsealed a lawsuit she had filed last month
with her attorney Peter Stris.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles
targets Broidy, her former attorney, Keith Davidson, and
Michael Avenatti, an
attorney representing Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims to have had
an affair with Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/playboy-model-who-signed-hush-deal-with-gop-fundraiser-says-cohen-rec.html
September
7: Elliott Broidy Seeks ‘Emergency Stay’ to Keep
Playboy Model’s Salacious Suit from Going Public
The details of former Playboy Playmate Shera Bechard‘s lawsuit
against Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy over a $1.6
million non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that Michael Cohen
facilitated will surface Friday in all its lurid detail — or so we thought.
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As Bloomberg reported earlier, a Los Angeles judge ordered the sealed
complaint to be made public, but Broidy is now petitioning for an
emergency stay, citing the irreparable harm such a release would cause.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-graphic-details-of-playboy-models-lawsuit-against-elliott-broidy-are-going-to-come-out/
September
8: Playmate’s suit bares details about affair with top
GOP donor
Shera Bechard alleges that Elliott Broidy became increasingly violent during
their years-long affair, demanded she get an abortion
https://www.timesofisrael.com/playmates-suit-bares-details-about-affair-with-top-gop-donor/
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November 15:
A judge on Thursday tentatively denied a bid by top Republican fundraiser
Elliott Broidy to settle a contract lawsuit by former Playboy model Shera
Bechard out of court, finding the claims against him must be decided at trial.
Broidy, a major GOP donor with ties to the White House, had an affair with
Bechard in 2017. He impregnated her and agreed to pay $1.6 million in
installments as part of a confidentiality agreement.
The hush agreement was arranged by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal
attorney Michael Cohen
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-denies-bid-to-arbitrate-beef-between-playmate-gop-donor/
November
30:
Trump Fund-Raiser Received Laundered Foreign Money, Prosecutors Say
Federal prosecutors cited the involvement of a onetime top fund-raiser to
President Trump on Friday in a scheme to launder millions of dollars into the
country to help a flamboyant Malaysian financier end a Justice Department
investigation.
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Elliott Broidy, a Los Angeles-based businessman who was a finance vice chairman
of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and inauguration committees, was paid to lobby the
Trump administration to try to end an investigation related to the embezzlement
of billions of dollars from a Malaysian state-owned fund, according to court
filings made public on Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/broidy-trump-foreign-money.html
December
13: Elliott Broidy, Former Top Trump Fundraiser, Hit
With Another Setback in Qatar Lawsuit
Elliott Broidy's case against veteran UN diplomat tossed
Broidy claims he was targeted by Qatar and its agents over his efforts to shift
U.S. policy against Gulf nation
A former top fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal
setback on Friday in his efforts to pin the
blame on Qatar for a hack of his emails, as a judge tossed his lawsuit
against a veteran
United Nations diplomat.
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Elliott Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016
presidential campaign and his inaugural committee, sued Jamal Benomar in July,
claiming he orchestrated the dissemination of hacked emails to media outlets.
Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco and a former U.N. special envoy for
Yemen, had
denied involvement and sought to get the lawsuit thrown out by asserting
diplomatic immunity, a status confirmed by the Trump administration last month.
Siding with Benomar, Manhattan federal District Judge Cathy Seibel on Friday
dismissed the case, court records show.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/elliott-broidy-former-top-trump-fundraiser-hit-with-another-setback-in-qatar-lawsu-1.6767499
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