WASHINGTON (AP): An American consultant has been charged in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into 1MDB and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the United States.
Federal prosecutors say Nickie Lum Davis failed to disclose to the federal government that the lobbying effort was done on behalf of fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, or also known as Jho Low, who has been charged in the United States with conspiring to launder billions of dollars from the fund.
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