Posted on 09/16/2016 9:42:26 PM PDT by upchuck
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Zuberi first received a $3.5 million payment from the Sri Lankan government on May 9, 2014. The contract stipulated that Zuberi would be given $1 million per month for his representation between June and October of 2014.
The relationship between Zuberi and Sri Lanka ended in September 2014, according to the documents. Zuberi did not submit a short-form registration statement to the Justice Department until August 14, 2014—more than three months after he had first received a payment from the Sri Lankan government. By the end of the contract, Zuberi had been paid $4.5 million for his work by Sri Lanka.
Zuberi lists the California-based company Beltway Government Strategies, Inc. on his initial short-form registration document as the primary registrant address. Beltway Government Strategies registered with FARA on June 2, 2014. The company was incorporated on May 23, 2014, shortly before the group’s registration was filed with the Justice Department, and makes no reference to Zuberi on the company’s initial registration.
Zuberi gave Beltway Government Strategies hundreds of thousands for “public affairs consulting,” the disclosures show. Beltway Government Strategies has been suspended and is no longer in operation, according to California Explore.
A group associated with Zuberi at the time, called the WR Group, did not register with FARA until September 15, 2014. The Sri Lankan government paid the WR Group an additional $2 million, bringing the total amount of money paid throughout the contract to $6.5 million.
Sri Lanka also paid $115,000 for Zuberi and his associates’ trips. That sum included the cost of flights, hotels, ground transportation, food, and related travel expenses, according to the filings.
The contract with Sri Lanka was terminated on September 30, 2014.
“An agent must register within ten days of agreeing to become an agent and before performing any activities for the foreign principal,” FARA’s enforcement section states. “No person shall act as an agent of a foreign principal unless he/she has filed with the Attorney General a true and complete registration statement and supplements. Unless he/she is exempt from registration under the provisions of this Act.”
Failure to file the proper documentation carries a fine of up to $10,000 or a maximum of five years in prison.
Zuberi is a major Democratic donor, bundling $685,000 for President Obama between 2007 and 2012. Zuberi was a co-chair on Obama’s National Finance Committee and served on the board of directors of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit that pushes Obama’s agenda.
Zuberi is now a top bundler for Hillary Clinton, pulling in more than $100,000 for the Democratic nominee, earning him a spot on Clinton’s National Finance Committee. He has also donated between $250,000 and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Zuberi was tapped to be a member of Clinton’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Leadership Council in January.
Zuberi was potentially linked to a Justice Department probe involving the Sri Lankan government, Foreign Policy reported last year.
FARA has faced scrutiny in recent weeks following the release of a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general that revealed few are punished under the statute despite rampant abuse by those who fall under its auspices.
Disgusting.
Laws are meaningless to those that grease the hands of the sellout class.
Clinton Foundation:
Audit by Peter Comey, DLA Piper LLC,
and protection by his brother,
the Crooked Comey of HBSC and the corrupt
(even Whitey Bulger is more far more honest) FBI.
If that was Dinesh D’Souza he would be put away for life.
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