Former Trump adviser under DOJ investigation for secret foreign lobbying operation. A Republican lobbyist who served as an unpaid campaign adviser to Donald Trump is under investigation for an alleged lobbying scheme involving Qatar.Barry Bennett founded the lobbying firm Avenue Strategies shortly after Trump won the 2016 election and agreed to represent Qatar a few months later, according to federal disclosure records, and the tiny Arabian Gulf nation paid the firm $3 million between July 2017 and July 2018 to develop closer ties with the U.S., reported the Wall Street Journal.”Prosecutors have presented evidence to a grand jury alleging that Mr. Bennett set up and funded a political group called Yemen Crisis Watch, according to the people familiar with the matter, as a way to embarrass Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., which at the time were enmeshed in a military campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen,” the newspaper reported. “That war has since left… https://ift.tt/2XOkxz7
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