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Government Corruption
Convicted Democratic fund-raiser had secret ties to U.S. intelligence
2021-03-18
[JUSTTHENEWS] Imaad Zuberi hobnobbed for two decades among America's political elite, raising millions for Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
, and Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
, texting with kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers and jet-setting with Republican senators like Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
and John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
.Then Zuberi resisted pressure to cooperate in the investigation of then-President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
's inauguration committee, and the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, millionaire's world came crashing down. Late last year, he pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors said was a "mercenary" scheme to funnel large sums of foreign money into U.S. campaign coffers so Zuberi could gain political influence and build his global business empire.

When Zuberi was sentenced last month to 12 years in prison and more than $18 million in fines — one of the harshest penalties ever meted out for a donor fraud case — it seemed like an open-and-shut case of political corruption. To the news media, it was a made-for-TV tale of greed and graft felling a man whose charity and good nature otherwise endeared him to many from Hollywood to Washington.

But back in the nation's capital, the U.S. government harbored a deep secret about Zuberi, a Pak-American who ran a highly successful venture capital firm with reach across the globe.

Just the News has confirmed from multiple current and former U.S. officials that Zuberi enjoyed a long and complex relationship with U.S. intelligence. His early help to the Drug Enforcement Administration with illegal drug trade and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in the war on Islamic terrorism in the early 2000s eventually elevated him to becoming a valuable source inside Washington's security and spy establishment for much of the last two decades, the officials said. They declined to be more specific.
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Posted by:Fred

#3  Imaad Shah Zuberi, 50, of Arcadia, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who also ordered him to pay $15,705,080 in restitution and a criminal fine of $1.75 million.Feb 18, 2021. Phillips, a political judge appointed by Clinton, has announced she will retire. The sentence seems to be stimulated by Cal Dems who wanted revenge on Zuberi for helping fund the Trump inauguration.
Posted by: b   2021-03-18 08:52  

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Posted by: Clem   2021-03-18 04:58  

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Good read Fred ... thanks.

The 12 year sentence alone despite being a Long Time Intel Asset causes me to wonder.

Why DC needed him locked away and kept quiet for so long?

Will we soon hear how the Drug Cartel or the Islamic Brother inmates got to him?

Or how he slipped on a bar of soap and broke his neck?

Or Hung Himself?

My Info Inquiring Question is:

Now that he has been convicted, will the court testimony and evidence files be Sealed or Open for FOIA requests. Because, I am sure there will be some Very Well Known Names that received his $$$$$ and "support" that $$$$ can buy or cover up.



Posted by: NN2N1   2021-03-18 04:50  

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