Trump Ally Barrack in Jail on Illegal-Lobbying Charges
- Barrack also charged with obstruction, making false statements
- Trump was betrayed by influence scheme, prosecutors say
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Tom Barrack Jr., the founder of Colony Capital Inc. and a former top fund-raiser for Donald Trump, was arrested on charges of illegally lobbying for a foreign government, an allegation prosecutors have successfully brought against several other Trump associates.
Barrack, 74, was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. Two other men were also charged in the alleged scheme, in an indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.