Informal campaign adviser and Trump’s inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack was arrested on charges of acting as an agent of a foreign government and lying to the FBI. He joins Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, and others.
Following in the footsteps of six other Trump 2016 campaign staffers who have been hit with federal charges since their candidate was elected, former adviser and inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack was charged on Tuesday for illegally lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of a foreign power and lying about it to federal law-enforcement agents. The indictment filed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors alleges Barrack worked as an agent of the United Arab Emirates between 2016 and 2018 to “influence the foreign policy positions of the campaign” and “the foreign policy positions of the U.
