----
Although this site is https-secure, we cannot guarantee that it or any
provided links are safe; be sure your antivirus and other security systems are
up to date.
Also see: Shera
Bechard; Michael Cohen; Rick Gates; Michael Avenatti; hush money;
Undated:
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]
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]
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 -- 2018 --
Back to top 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
May 22: Who Did Playboy Model Shera Bechard
Really Have an Affair With?
You may recall that a few weeks ago a judge ordered Trump lawyer/fixer Michael
Cohen to reveal all his clients. It turned out he had only three: Donald Trump,
Sean Hannity, and … Elliott Broidy. What’s more, he only represented Broidy on
one thing: a hush money payment to a Playboy model he had an affair with, some
of which was used to pay for an abortion. When that was revealed, Broidy
immediately confessed in a surprisingly workmanlike statement and that was that.
... it sure seems a helluva lot more likely that Campos was right. It always
seemed odd that Broidy had paid Shera Bechard $1.6 million for her silence,
considering that an affair with a guy like Broidy was hardly front-page news.
However, an affair with Trump would be front-page news, and this was
right in the middle of Broidy’s big campaign to get Trump to help him out with
the Qatar business. What better way to ingratiate yourself with Trump than to
offer to cover this up for him?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
