US consultant charged with covert lobbying for Jho Low over 1MDB probe

An American consultant has been charged in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the US.Federal prosecutors say Nickie Lum Davis failed to disclose to the federal government that the lobbying effort was done on behalf of a fugitive Malaysian financier who has been charged in the US with conspiring to launder…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3098681/us-consultant-charged-over-covert-lobbying-jho-low-over