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Trump inaugural committee head accused of being agent of a foreign government Share Updated: 8:01 PM PDT Jul 20, 2021 By BRIAN MELLEY and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Trump inaugural committee head accused of being agent of a foreign government Share Updated: 8:01 PM PDT Jul 20, 2021 GET OUR POLITICS NEWSLETTER Share Updated: 8:01 PM PDT Jul 20, 2021 By BRIAN MELLEY and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press The chair of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he secretly conspired to influenc...

By City News Service Photo: Getty Images LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Thomas Barrack, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump and ex-chairman of the former president's inaugural committee, resigned from the USC Board of Trustees today, one day after his arrest on charges of unlawfully lobbying for the United Arab Emirates. “Tom Barrack has voluntarily resigned from the USC Board of Trustees effective immediately,'' according to a statement from the board Wednesday. Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, was arrested in the Southland Tuesday in connection with a seven-count federal indictment unsealed in New York....

Donald Trump's BEST FRIEND Arrested On Federal Charges Home » Donald Trump » Donald Trump's BEST FRIEND Arrested On Federal Charges Donald Trump earned the recycled moniker “Teflon Don” because he always seems to evade criminal charges — nothing sticks. But the thing about teflon is, all that greasy mess slides off, but it still has to go somewhere — and usually that means sloshing on all the surrounding kitchenware. Metaphor aside, over the past few years, the criminal charges have really stacked up all around Trump — his National Security Adviser, his Chief Strategist, his pers...

Trump inaugural committee head accused of being UAE agent FILE - This photo from Thursday Jan. 19, 2017, shows Inaugural Committee chairman Tom Barrack speaks at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Barrack, chair of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee, was arrested Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in California on charges alleging that he and others conspired to influence Trump's foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) | Photo: AP. ...

Updated July 20, 2021 at 8:14 PM ET Thomas Barrack, a longtime friend of Donald Trump's who chaired the former president's inauguration committee, was arrested Tuesday on federal charges that he acted as an agent of a foreign government. Prosecutors said Barrack, 74, parlayed his close ties to the Trump White House to advance the interests of the United Arab Emirates. Along with Barrack, Matthew Grimes, 27, of Aspen, Colo., and Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi, 43, a UAE national, are accused of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Middle Eastern nation between April 2016 and A...