The sleaze just doesn't stop -- Trump supporters will be defending the indefensible for the next 5 months and the GOP will be paying for it for years.
Trump moneyman’s shady history
One of six vice-chairs of the “Trump Victory Leadership Team,” a joint fundraising effort announced Tuesday by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, pleaded guilty in 2009 to criminal charges involving bribes paid to top New York State officials.
Elliott Broidy, a Los Angeles venture capitalist, was charged with showering nearly $1 million in gifts and favors on state officials as part of a scheme to win more than $250 million in state pension investments for the venture capital firm he then headed, Markstone Capital. Broidy pleaded guilty to a felony charge of rewarding state official misconduct and faced a four-year prison term. But the charge was downgraded to a misdemeanor, allowing him to escape jail time, after he cooperated in the state’s investigation, resulting in the 2010 conviction of then state Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.
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