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After terrorism suspicion, visa ban, Eko Hotel owner Gilbert Chagoury pays $1.8 million fines to U.S.
The Lebanese-Nigerian’s dealings have seen little changes since his days as a top Abacha money mule in the 1990s.
Gilbert Chagoury, the owner of Eko Hotel and key financier of Eko Atlantic project, paid $1.8 million in fines to the United States after he was suspected of funding terrorism, banned from entering U.S. and indicted on charges of violating the country’s election laws.
Mr Chagoury, 75, was fined $1.8 million by the U.S. Department of Justice after conniving with some associates to make illegal campaign contributions to at least four political candidates between June 2012 and March 2016, the department and court documents seen by Peoples Gazette said.
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Prosecutors: Ray LaHood pays $40,000 fine to resolve federal investigation
Chris Kaergard Journal Star (TNS)
April 1, 2021
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Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2013.Jacquelyn Martin | AP
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood paid a $40,000 fine as part of a deal with federal prosecutors after making “misleading” statements to federal agents and failing to disclose a $50,000 payment on two government ethics forms, the Department of Justice disclosed Wednesday.
The announcement about the former Peoria lawmaker came as part of a broader federal inquiry into a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire, prosecutors in California said. Gilbert Chagoury agreed to pay $1.8 million to resolve claims that he conspired to violate federal law by making illegal campaign contributions to candidates for president and Congress.
A former Obama administration official took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire, who the Justice Department had been investigating as part of an illegal campaign cash scheme, according to federal prosecutors.