November 04, 2022
A Brooklyn federal jury on Friday delivered a knockout blow to prosecutors' case against onetime Donald Trump adviser Thomas Barrack and his former protégé, which alleged the pair secretly acted as agents of a foreign government, acquitting both men of all charges.
November 01, 2022
Brooklyn federal prosecutors urged a jury Tuesday to find that Colony Capital founder Thomas Barrack "traded his political access" to Donald Trump for investments from United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth funds, while counsel for the onetime presidential adviser called the foreign agent charges nonsensical.
October 27, 2022
Brooklyn federal prosecutors began on Thursday to pick apart testimony from Colony Capital founder Thomas Barrack that he never acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates, suggesting that the former Donald Trump adviser "deceived" the former president's son-in-law Jared Kushner to cement his position of influence.
October 26, 2022
Private equity mogul Thomas Barrack on Wednesday recalled how he did damage control with the United States' Arab allies in the wake of the Donald Trump-led GOP's support for "racist" policies such as banning Muslims from entering the country, including by offering reassurances to the UAE's ambassador.
October 25, 2022
Colony Capital Inc. founder Thomas Barrack's defense began to take shape in his foreign agent trial Tuesday as jurors heard him explain away his alleged crimes as the acts of a true believer in the importance of U.S. engagement with allies in the Middle East, and not subterfuge directed by a foreign government.
October 24, 2022
Colony Capital founder Thomas Barrack on Monday took the witness stand in his own defense in his trial over allegations of secretly acting as an agent of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S., telling jurors his involvement with former President Donald Trump has been "disastrous" for his business.
October 21, 2022
Private equity mogul Thomas Barrack will testify in his own defense at his trial over charges he secretly acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S., attorneys said Friday, in an 11th hour surprise move that appeared to catch the government and the court off-guard.
October 20, 2022
Former Treasury secretary and private equity mogul Steven Mnuchin on Thursday testified for the defense in Thomas Barrack's foreign agent trial and contradicted a central provision in prosecutors' account of the Colony Capital founder's purported influence campaign on behalf of the United Arab Emirates.
October 19, 2022
Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Wednesday rested their case against Colony Capital Inc. founder Thomas Barrack alleging he secretly acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S., and the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump began a defense case that may include testimony from former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
October 14, 2022
Jurors in the foreign agent trial of Thomas Barrack on Friday heard how United Arab Emirates officials were elated at the prospect of the Colony Capital founder joining the nascent Trump administration, as the country sought closer U.S. ties following the 2016 presidential election.