USA v. Al Malik Alshahhi, et. al.

  1. October 13, 2022

    Trump Ally Floats Claim That FBI Agent Lied To Grand Jury

    Counsel for Colony Capital founder Thomas Barrack on Thursday launched a broadside against the government's illicit lobbying investigation of the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, suggesting an FBI agent had lied to the grand jury and that the agency botched the probe.

  2. October 07, 2022

    Trump Ally's Deputy Was Just A Lackey, Jury Hears

    An attorney for former Colony Capital Inc. analyst Matthew Grimes on Friday sought to distance his client from co-defendant Thomas Barrack in the trial accusing both men of acting as unregistered agents for the United Arab Emirates, implying to jurors that Grimes was just a low-level assistant to the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump.

  3. October 04, 2022

    Ex-Trump Ally Implies UAE Ties Were Routine Business

    An attorney for Thomas Barrack on Tuesday sought to show jurors during the illicit lobbying trial of the Colony Capital Inc. founder that his close relationship with United Arab Emirates officials was just a normal part of doing business for the globe-trotting former adviser to former President Donald Trump, pointing to the executive's numerous contacts with other world leaders. 

  4. October 03, 2022

    Tillerson Says He Never Tapped Trump Ally For Diplomacy

    Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday told a New York federal jury in the illicit lobbying trial of Thomas Barrack that he never told the former adviser to ex-President Donald Trump to engage in any diplomacy, nor was he aware of Barrack's involvement in U.S. foreign policy.

  5. October 02, 2022

    Tillerson To Take Stand In Trump Ally's Foreign Lobbying Trial

    Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be called as a witness for the government in the trial of Colony Capital Inc. founder Thomas Barrack, in a case accusing the onetime Trump confidant of secretly acting as an agent of a foreign government.

  6. September 29, 2022

    Barrack Jury Told Of Pro-UAE Push To Influence Trump

    Jurors in the trial of Thomas Barrack on Thursday heard about how the Colony Capital Inc. founder allegedly worked both behind the scenes and in front of the camera during former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign to advance foreign policy positions favoring the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

  7. September 21, 2022

    Trump Ally Tells Jury In Foreign Agent Trial: No Deal, No Crime

    An attorney for private equity mogul Thomas Barrack, a onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, told a Brooklyn federal jury on Wednesday that there is no evidence Barrack had an agreement with United Arab Emirates officials to work covertly on their behalf in the U.S.

  8. September 19, 2022

    Trump Looms Large Over Barrack Jury Pool In Lobbying Trial

    Several prospective jurors' withering critiques of former President Donald Trump took center stage on Monday during the initial round of jury selection in the illegal lobbying trial of his former adviser Thomas Barrack, with many of the would-be jurors rating Trump as their least admired public figure. 

  9. September 16, 2022

    Trump Ally Set To Fight Feds' Lobbying Crackdown At Trial

    More than a year after investor Thomas Barrack was indicted on a slew of charges over his purported secret lobbying campaign on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump is set to put the government's illegal foreign influence dragnet to the test.

  10. August 26, 2022

    Feds Say Ex-Rep.'s Arrest Tripped Up Trump Ally's Scheme

    Prosecutors told a New York federal judge Thursday that the United Arab Emirates' effort to leverage its relationship with former Trump adviser Thomas Barrack to get former Rep. Stephen Stockman appointed as U.S. ambassador to the UAE failed after the congressman was arrested on unrelated charity fraud charges.