November 30, 2020 GMT
He lived a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, staying at fine hotels and hosting lawmakers and diplomats at four-star restaurants. Foreign ambassadors turned to Zuberi to get face time in Congress. Zuberi’s story underscores how loosely regulated campaign finance and foreign lobbying laws are and raises an embarrassing question: How does such a cynical fraudster find favor with so many officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government?
But an AP investigation identified associates, enablers and targets of Zuberi’s influence efforts, drawing on private emails, court documents, campaign finance reports, and interviews with more than three dozen people including diplomats, law enforcement officials, lobbyists, and former members of Congress.
Prosecutors say Zuberi secretly foreign lobbying included working to kill a House resolution opposed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, getting Congress to put pressure on Bahrain on behalf of a Bahraini businessman, and obtaining official invites to the U.S. for Libyan officials looking to secure frozen assets.
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JimLaPorta 'Pay to play, he explained to clients, was just how America works.' Welp, he's right about that.
This is why poor people cant have nice things. Because people always be stealing and lobbying.
He's... not wrong
His lawyer will tango on the tip of needles.
Many people never got their unemployment checks or their stimulus checks and just gave up because govt has collapsed and is unreachable.
Lobbyists aren’t all foreign. Influencing is how America operates.
Well!
Duh. Is it supposed to be a secret that corporations, foreign and domestic, wait in the lobbies of our Senators and Representatives to pay them off with corporate money?
Pay to play was invented by President Gerald Ford after his landslide election win which forced him to step down as CEO of his beloved Ford Motors.
StevenHarp_ Yea, and that 'just how America works' isn't going to change anytime soon.
He is not wrong, despite what we tell each other about who we are.
It is always about money, power, and influence in America ! Citizens United is just a drop in the bucket.
He’s not wrong.
Get this crook lobbyist out of the Capitol building if he did throw foreign money at politicians . Make a list of politicians who received this money and require them to pay that money to the National Treasury if they want to keep their seat in Congress. This is swamp corruption!
*pretends to be shocked*
It’s schmucks like this guy who really have control. I look forward to this asshole wining and dining the Biden Administration for the next 4 years.
THIS is why we LOVE Trump! Flush out that swamp!!!
YEAH AND IT MUST TRICKLE DOWN TO THE COMMON PEOPLE OR DEPORTATION.
Despicable! If I ran the show, there’d be NO lobbyists at any level of government (local, state, federal).
White collar crime does not get as punished as petty crime. This guy is likely connected.
JoeBiden will be the real DrainTheSwamp President.
This is pretty fucking big. Just more evidence lobbying needs to be made COMPLETELY illegal & reform campaign finance law, & that not a single politician on EITHER side cares about anyone past how they help their campaign funds. Fuck em all, none care for any of us past our $.
One of thousands.
Arrest him if you must...but he should be hired to teach Voter Education classes or be a cable news commentator at the very least. He obviously has a solid grasp on American politics...unfortunately 150+ million voters don't. maintain the status quo
They don’t even try to hide the corruption anymore
We need to discard the system and replace it with an ethical one
He's not wrong. And no one seems to be willing to rock the boat. This is corruption. Americans need to fight this before they tackle anything else. (Other than Covid).
horrible
The media in America is mostly dead. Today they resemble Russian Pravda. When I turn on the media (NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, and the like) I can only spend a few minutes watching before I have to change the channel before becoming nauseous.
'Drain the swamp'
Just ask anyone on K Street.
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After they've all gone, only the swamp lives on.
Well, he ain’t lying...
Does it ever END!
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