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When former President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts in office, granted an executive pardon to confessed felon Elliott Broidy, the White House cited letters in Broidy’s support from some unusual sources: five Los Angeles rabbis.
Broidy, a multimillionaire businessman and prominent Jewish philanthropist, pleaded guilty to illegal foreign lobbying on Oct. 20. Broidy was covertly paid millions to push federal officials to drop one of the largest embezzlement investigations in the history of the Justice Department. He also lobbied officials to deport a critic of the Chinese government who resides in Brooklyn.
Why, with the ink barely dry on his guilty plea, did these rabbis come to Elliott Broidy’s defense?
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